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    Athletics & recreation

    other universities, while intramural sports are teams of MIT students ... 'Brien, and Barry fields, which offer acres of on-campus athletics fields for ... United States. About a quarter of our students are varsity athletes, and
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    The MIT community

    alumni, while others come from hundreds of other universities around the ... . This unusual degree of access has deep cultural roots in our longstanding ... Institute and they'll probably say "the people." The quality of the MIT
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    International applicants

    MIT has a very long history of educating international students, and ... applying to an American school like MIT works. Some of the information in ... to apply to American universities, including MIT. We particularly

  • infinite MIT

    , and a lot of exploration along the way. We don't read, edit, or ... check them out, there are 7,300 as of this writing."] student bloggers.[/annotation]We hope you'll get a good sense of the MIT community and if it might be a
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    College access & advising programs

    consortium of colleges and universities dedicated to working with high schools ... The process of applying to college isn’t always straightforward ... support of a whole community. If you want help understanding the college
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    About MIT Admissions

    reality that the vast majority of our applicants will not be offered ... ."]MIT Office of Undergraduate Admissions[/annotation] oversees the recruitment and selection of all undergraduate applicants to the Institute
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    Veterans

    MIT has a long history of educating veterans, both before and after their service, and we are proud to support a community of veterans on ... have already completed an undergraduate degree elsewhere, you may explore

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    's academic programs. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is committed to ... Privacy Statement The mission of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology ...  central accessibility website where you can find all of MIT's accessibility resources in
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    WISE 2024

    your interest in STEM (the fields of science, technology, engineering ... , including the cost of transportation to and from MIT. We strongly encourage ... : You must attend high school in the United States or one of its
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    Via mail

    related to an application—you can send it to: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Office of Undergraduate Admissions 77 Massachusetts Avenue, E38
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    Independent Activities Period

    ,[/annotation] IAP has grown to be a unique feature of the MIT education, offering ... Departments offer hundreds of credit-bearing subjects during IAP. And any member ... January during which faculty and students are freed from the rigors of
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    Returning students

    experiences of students returning to higher education. At the same time, we need to evaluate students against a common baseline of preparation for a ... while, we expect to see the results of your standardized tests, transcript
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    Admissions videos

    Pi Day videos (2014–2024) In 2014, we made a video of some bloggers ... comforting character for those of us old enough to remember videotapes ... . It cost hundreds of thousands of dollars and was produced entirely by a
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    General Institute Requirements

    subjects of Restricted Electives in Science and Technology to give you the ... curriculum and foundation for the rest of your education.[/intro] William ... studies...of the philosopher are often the most beneficent sources of
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    Our mission

    with our admissions process and financial aid. The MIT Office of ... of some of the world’s most intelligent and creative individuals interested in an education centered on science and technology. The students we
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    Hacks, tomfoolery & pranks

    stealthily execute campus pranks according to an informal code of ethics. These ... computer systems. As the journalist Steven Levy wrote in his history of hacking, the definition of hacking descends from a much older tradition of
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    MIT’s educational philosophy

    offered, of course!"]required to learn French and German[/annotation] in ... -motivated and engaged participants in a dynamic community of learners. We combine ... principles Since the first classes were offered in a storage warehouse in
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    Basic facts

    61 National Medal of Science winners 33 National Medal of Technology ... that end, we seek the best possible community of scholars (and humans ... curated from the latest issue of the MIT Facts book and data from MIT
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    Letters of recommendation

    We require letters of recommendation from two teachers. We recommend ...  and—when available—a School Profile and letter of recommendation). You will be able to ... ! (If you're a teacher looking for guides on how to write good letters of