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• FAQ / First-year application

  Does MIT have any age limits?

  from high school for a while, we would expect to see the results of your ... /employers and other supportive materials that would assist us in getting to know ... , the more creative you'll have to be in submitting supportive
• FAQ / First-year application

  How does MIT consider extracurriculars?

  apiculture (beekeeping) to building nuclear reactors in their garages. We realize our applicants are very committed to their schoolwork and with their ... realize that students in the U.S. have a huge array of extracurriculars to
• FAQ / First-year application

  How do I list standardized test results?

  If you are planning on applying to MIT and would like to see our ... required to send your official scores as part of your application. Instead, you will be asked to report exams you have taken or plan to take, and we
• FAQ / QuestBridge

  Can I submit the MIT application with my QuestBridge application?

  If you are named a QuestBridge Finalist, you do not need to submit an ... enough information for us to evaluate students for admission. However, you will have to submit our MIT QuestBridge Supplement, which will be
• FAQ / Transfer

  Does MIT offer transfer credit?

  If you're admitted, you can expect to receive credit for subjects of study that are substantively equivalent to corresponding MIT subjects. If your academic record doesn't appear to merit credit in a certain subject
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Don’t forget to check in with yourself On living with intention

  

  chance to walk through campus, down the infinite, with my 9-month old baby — and it all still felt like home.  Okay, all the places I loved to eat ... to peer into). But! I still have so many specific MIT memories I

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • January 23, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Class of 2018 Spring Welcome Events Come to Your Area Get a head start on meeting other members of the Class of 2018.

  

  up in April (sign up now)! Since I know you just can’t wait to meet other new MIT admits I want to let you know about some exciting ... Counselors and other great alumni to put together admitted student gatherings

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • March 20, 2014
• FAQ / First-year application

  Do I need a high school diploma to apply?

  MIT doesn't have any age requirements and doesn't require high school completion to apply. Each year we receive a small number of applications from ... Institute when you're here. For some more information, check out What to do in
• Blog / About Decisions

  [Guest Post] An Overthinker’s Guide to Finishing Your Transfer Application by Warren K. ’27

  

  The fall transfer application deadline is coming up. I tried to ... -time, so I had to budget my time carefully. I made the plan to do most of my application work during winter break so I could devote my full attention to it

  • by Jeremy W.
  • March 4, 2025
• Blog / How to MIT

  how to draw dotted lines on chalkboards, mit style dotted lines go brrrrr

  

  A few months ago, I posted about how to clean old whiteboards. Of ... ="aligncenter" width="1000"] from 8.033[/caption] I learned how to make dotted lines ... how to draw dotted lines in about 20 seconds, and you'd succeed 99

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 20, 2021
• Blog / MISTI

  MIT-France: To The Observatory of Paris and Beyond The MISTI experience of Anjali T. '09.

  

  [By Anjali T. '09] This summer, I didn't happen to pull off what ... once home to the Prime Meridian and is the world's oldest working observatory. It was here that Foucault experimented with his pendulum to show

  • by MISTI Program
  • September 17, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I never want to finish my P.E. requirement MIT PE might be the best thing that's happened in my whole (short) athletic history

  

  PE classes in high school tend to follow one of two models. Either ... pretty psyched to see just how cool the PE offerings at MIT are! A small excerpt from the PE course listing for last quarter. Here's a link to the

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • November 16, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  How to (Im)properly Get an Independent Study another step by step guide of our mistakes

  

  , we are taking 6.910 Independent Study in EECS!  We really wanted to ... best bet to be able to spend our last semester at MIT pursuing and learning the topics we want to. We just recently got everything approved, but

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 18, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Some comforting blogs to read while you await decisions

  

  wanted to take a breath and collect some words of encouragement from ... , cozy blanket to curl around you while you wait. here comes a thought by Joonho K. '20 (2019) it’s okay to be nervous, anxious, excited, whatever

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 13, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  42: The Answer to Our Changing Educational Needs a school with no teachers, no schedules, and no rankings

  

  Office of Digital Learning designed to facilitate awareness, deep ... to a remote Buddhist monastery in the Himalayas. In a place without ... technology to transmit knowledge across the world. While at the monastery, he

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 24, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Regular Action Deadline Extended to January 3 We have extended the RA deadline. Happy Holidays!

  

  admission to January 3. The freshman application can be submitted through My ... to submit your deadline. If your application is ready to go, click that button, or stamp that mail! The closer you send in your application to the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 3, 2009
• Blog / Events

  101 Things to Do Before You Graduate from MIT What every MIT graduate should have experienced.

  

  At orientation, we received a list of "101 Things to Do Before You ... have to step-up to the plate and complete it! For the skeptics (and photo-lovers), I've included photographic evidence below. (My apologies to those

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 16, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  What to expect when you’re expecting CPW Setting some expectations, discussing myths & realities.

  

  Preview Weekend (CPW), I figured it would be worthwhile to spend a little time helping to set expectations for the weekend. Because CPW is such a ... it, and I hope I can give you a better sense of what to really expect

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 15, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  Things To Do While Waiting for Decisions, Part II Relax! Take it eee-aaa-sy!

  

  I was your age, we didn't have any official release date to count down to because they came in the mail. In tubes. We also walked six miles to ... be scared together because in six days, I'll be six days closer to

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 10, 2007
• Blog / How to Food

  Guest Post: Where to Buy Food: MIT Groceries Guide Because eating textbooks gets expensive.

  

  ’s much easier to carry groceries on your back than in your arms. When loading groceries into your backpack, make sure to put more durable items in first and to put fragile items on top. When I’m not careful about this

  • by Erick P. '17
  • September 3, 2015