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  • Apply / Preparing for MIT

    Transfer credit & advanced standing

    -secondary classes while they’re still in high school. Many of these programs offer ... you graduate with both a high school diploma and an associate's degree ... basically like taking the final exam before the class begins. If you do well
  • Apply / Preparing for MIT

    Accessing advanced coursework

    If your high school doesn’t offer courses that help you prepare for MIT, or if you want to pursue [annotation note='To be clear, we do not expect students do anything above and beyond what is required to
  • Apply / Parents and educators

    For home educators

    granted a formal high school diploma, while others have not. Please note that we do not require a high school diploma or GED from our applicants. Successful homeschooled applicants We do not have separate requirements for
  • Discover / The MIT education

    Independent Activities Period

    regularly scheduled classes to do...whatever they want![/intro] [annotation ... ,[/annotation] IAP has grown to be a unique feature of the MIT education, offering ... than 600 activities are offered each year, and regular students paying
  • Apply / Transfer applicants

    Academic preparation

    applying, taking full advantage of their institution’s offerings in these ... offered at your institution to those offered at MIT, you can refer to the ... or the ACT for transfer applicants. We do not require the ACT writing
  • Apply / First-year applicants

    Interview

    , we offer an interview with a member of the MIT Educational Council, a ... interviews will take place in January. If we are unable to offer you an ... interviews are not usually formal affairs. You do not have to dress up for your
  • Discover / The MIT education

    MIT’s educational philosophy

    rigorous academics with a learning-by-doing approach.[/intro] Our guiding principles Since the first classes were offered in a storage warehouse in ... offered, of course!"]required to learn French and German[/annotation] in
  • Apply / First-year applicants

    DACA & undocumented applicants

    students. For those students who face financial barriers, we offer fee waivers on our application, conduct [annotation note="This means we do not ... undocumented student (esta guía está disponible en español). QuestBridge offers
  • Apply / Preparing for MIT

    Summer programs

    should do to prepare for applying to MIT, and our answer is always to spend ... elsewhere, that offer compelling intellectual content and a rigorous ... free to attend or (like MIT) offer generous need-based financial aid. MIT
  • Afford / Cost & affordability

    How much it costs

    education. We offer aid that meets 100% of your demonstrated financial need ... . We offer full-need financial aid, which means we meet 100% of your ... -free. Those who do borrow tend to have debt at graduation lower than the
  • Discover / Life and culture

    Athletics & recreation

    teams, we offer the largest Division III program in the nation, in ... school, MIT does not award athletic scholarships, nor do coaches get to ... 'Brien, and Barry fields, which offer acres of on-campus athletics fields for
  • Apply / Transfer applicants

    Transfer deadlines & requirements

    transfer applicants. We do not require the ACT writing or science sections or ... the highest score achieved in each section. We do this in order to ... official and self-reported scores may affect a student’s offer of admission.

  • Request a group tour

    students in their college search process. These visits do not include an ... refunds will be offered in the case of an Institute-wide closure or a sick
  • Discover / Life and culture

    Eating at MIT

    learn to do eventually. There is no right or wrong answer overall, just a ... Bon Appétit, offer options for food sensitivities and special diets
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    About MITAdmissions.org

    name in order to do so. Since then, we've built up a following and sense ... resource about first-year and transfer admissions. We do not conduct ... expense of the audience don't get the blogs shut down: catchall for doing
  • Discover / The MIT education

    Global education

    that offers opportunities to study for the semester, year, or summer at a university overseas a global classroom program that offers students short ... the traditional campus-based UROP model. Service abroad MIT offers many
  • Apply / Preparing for MIT

    Academic foundations

    that you’re ready to do the work, and helps you make the most of the ... American high schools."]offers an American curriculum,[/annotation] then we ... matters is that you are prepared to take, and do well in, a class that
  • Apply / First-year applicants

    International applicants

     not impact when or how you apply or the financial aid you are offered. Rather, this ... applicants should do the same. Only accepted students are required to send ... part of the world. We do not try to convert your grades to the American