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    Inventions & innovations

    [intro]For more than 150 years, the Institute has married teaching ... discoveries of basic research to products and infrastructure used by ordinary people in everyday life.[/intro] For MIT's 150th anniversary, the Boston

  • Student life at MIT

    likely get 4,500 unique answers from each of our undergrads as to what a “day in the life of an MIT student” looks like for them—and that's part ... freely from lectures to labs, from dance floors to darkrooms, from study
  • Apply / Transfer applicants

    Transfer eligibility

    The transfer application is intended for students who have finished ... submit one application per entry year, meaning if you apply to enter in the spring term, you cannot reapply for the fall term of the same calendar year
  • Discover / The MIT education

    MIT’s educational philosophy

    objective inquiry, to recognize and provide opportunities for unusual ... offered, of course!"]required to learn French and German[/annotation] in order to graduate. However, the MIT education has always been based on
  • Discover / The MIT education

    The first year

    ) interests in order to develop their plans for further study. Before we get to ... by choosing among a variety of ways to complete core subjects and prepare for further undergraduate study.[/intro] Academic exploration

  • Clubs, activities, and athletics

    [intro]From puppies to pyrotechnics, MIT students organize hundreds ... to share that excitement with.[/intro] Student activities Sure, there ... might expect. But MIT students also run a Laboratory for Chocolate Science
  • Apply / Transfer applicants

    The transfer application

    Application: The application for spring entry is due October 15, 2026. The application for fall entry is due March 1, 2027. Only U.S. citizens and U ... must take a test by the March test date. School Official Report: To be
  • Apply / First-year applicants

    Letters of recommendation

    ! (If you're a teacher looking for guides on how to write good letters of ... their materials. Our preference is for recommenders to use our application ...  and—when available—a School Profile and letter of recommendation). You will be able to
  • Discover / The MIT education

    Maker education

    come to be called a "maker education."[/intro] Our motto The motto ... things, and from trying to make them work. This "maker education" is at ... training program, MakerLodge, to teach making skills to first
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    Getting started

    Regular Action. There is no strategic benefit to applying during either action cycle. Just do what works for you! Application fee or waiver Our ... fees presents a hardship for some families. Fee waivers are available for
  • Apply / Understanding the process

    First-year class profile

    percentages are [annotation note="Except for when a number would round to zero ... universities use when collecting and reporting sex data for students to the U ... collecting and reporting data about race and ethnicity for domestic students to
  • Discover / Life and culture

    The MIT community

    Association for extraordinary, lifelong service to the Institute. Our values In ... Professor Emeritus Jay Keyser once observed that "MIT is hard to get into, and even harder to leave."[/intro] The people at MIT The best asset of MIT
  • Apply / Understanding the process

    Admissions statistics

    beyond the stats already contributed to the MIT's standard Common Data Set. Holistic admissions It is important to understand that these numbers do not ... characteristics like these are much harder to quantify and are therefore not
  • Discover / About MIT

    Basic facts

    relevance to the practical world and transforming society for the better. To ... ) who will contribute to MIT and the world.[/intro] These basic facts are ... statistics and the first-year class profile; for statistics on financial aid
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    Via tesseract

    quite a long walk for him if he had to walk straight across." Swiftly ... learned to take short cuts wherever possible." "Sort of like in math?" Meg ... see," Mrs. Whatsit said, "if a very small insect were to move from the
  • Apply / Understanding the process

    Our selection process

    How it works After you click the submit button, it's easy to feel ... admissions officers, who will summarize it for the Admissions Committee. These summaries, along with your entire application, will then go to the selection
  • Discover / Life and culture

    Athletics & recreation

    addition to a Division I crew program. MIT is highly competitive within its NEWMAC conference. It is possible to be a student and athlete at MIT ... school, MIT does not award athletic scholarships, nor do coaches get to
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    Other videos

    More than 40 MIT[annotation note="That's jargon for Departments, Labs, and Centers, the basic organizational entities that constitute MIT ... people. It's hard to narrow down thousands of videos, but here are a few of
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    Newsletters

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