Search

  • Discover

    We are makers. We are thinkers. We are explorers. In all that we do. The MIT community is driven by a shared purpose to make a better world through education, research, and innovation. We are fun and quirky
  • Apply / First-year applicants

    Early vs Regular

    fine to apply during either cycle. We do not have a preference, and there ... anything like that. If you choose to apply to MIT during Early Action, we do not place any limits on where else you may apply, nor do we require you
  • Apply / Understanding the process

    Our selection process

    -centered process, not a school- or region-centered process. This means that we do not ... applying. We also do not consider legacy/alumni relations in our process. At ... that we do. These blogs will help you "get" what the MIT admissions

  • MIT visits you

    [intro]Not everyone can take the time to come to MIT, so we do our best to come to you. We crisscross the U.S. as often as we can, so that you can learn more about MIT and see if it may be right for you
  • Apply / First-year applicants

    Transcripts

    application portal along with the Secondary School Report. To do this ... application portal to submit transcripts. However, they do have the option to
  • Apply / Preparing for MIT

    Be yourself!

    doing two things: taking the time to really explore things that ... do the work Becoming your best self What you shouldn’t do is build
  • Apply / First-year applicants

    Letters of recommendation

    school's curriculum and community. Some school counselors do not or cannot ... admitted students do not submit any supplemental recommendations. Applicants ... portal to submit documents. However, they do have the option to submit
  • Apply / Preparing for MIT

    Extracurricular activities

    Some students feel so much pressure to get into the “right” college that they want to make sure they do everything “right”—down to their extracurricular or co-curricular activities.  On our application, we ask for up to
  • Discover / Life and culture

    Housing at MIT

    , and videos compiled by the residents about who they are and what they do ...  Residential Exploration (REX), where you do even more exploring of the different residence
  • Apply / First-year applicants

    First-year eligibility

    The first-year application is intended for students who have [annotation note="Note that we do not formally require you to have graduated or earned a GED, though you may well choose to!"]concluded[/annotation] their
  • Discover / Life and culture

    Hacks, tomfoolery & pranks

    [intro]At MIT, "hacks" are performed by students who safely and stealthily execute campus pranks according to an informal code of ethics. These ethics, loosely stated, assert that hacks must do no damage to property or
  • Apply / Understanding the process

    What we look for

    thinking about problems, you should be excited about doing something to help ... the things they care about. We don’t expect applicants to do a million ... . Our application’s essay question, "Tell us about something you do simply