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FAQ / First-year application
Do dual enrollment students apply as a first-year or transfer applicant?
Students participating in dual enrollment programs or taking college-level courses while in high school apply for first-year admission at MIT. If you apply to MIT while you're still in high school, you're considered a first -
FAQ / First-year application
Will there be a wait list this year?
Each year we aim for a class of approximately 1,100 students. Based on our estimates of the percentage of admitted students who will attend (known as the "yield"), we admit about 1,400 students. However, it isn -
FAQ / Prepare for MIT
What is Splash?
For one awesome weekend each November, thousands of high schoolers flood MIT’s campus to take classes, taught by MIT students, on anything and everything. From music theory to Hungarian history to aircraft -
FAQ / Life and culture
Can I join a fraternity/sorority?
-of-class experience for the students at MIT and be a proponent of the shared values that -
FAQ / Academics and research
Can I join the IDEAS Social Innovation Challenge?
competition that awards up to $20,000 per team for the best ideas to tackle -
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FAQ / Interview
What if my interview is waived?
Unfortunately, even with over 3,500 alumni volunteer Educational Counselors all over the world, we may not be able to arrange an interview for every applicant. If we are unable to offer you an interview, your -
FAQ / First-year application
Does MIT have required classes or language requirements?
We're often asked to recommend specific classes for high school students to increase their chances of admission. We don't have any required classes but consider an ideal preparation to include calculus, physics -
Blog / Featured Blogs
Minesweeper Monday Episode One: Quantum of Solace Emulator
Hello everyone and welcome to episode one of Minesweeper Monday, a bit that I might never do again! In this episode I talk about Coffee and Radio and Movies and try for far too long to get an emulator of a game to -
Blog / Travel
[liveblog] morbing at the airport the flight is delayed for several hours because of toilet issues
airport) for so long that blogging is the only thing that can keep me sane ... their business in for the entirety of the 6 hour flight. 8:30pm ... enough for dinner. [caption id="attachment_115909" align -
Blog / Athletics
Winter Sports at MIT a sneak peek of: swim and dive, squash, and men's basketball
can talk to for help.” Squash student-athlete: “Being a student athlete ... never take for granted.” Favorite sport-related memory? Swimming student ... proud of us for making it to Regionals.” Squash student-athlete: “During -
Blog / Athletics
Skating or School? Why not both?
have in store for me. And yet, here I am, in my third year, still ... -time. Exams and psets I don't have enough time to study for or complete. Classes ... , training. The skating season is year-round, no breaks, hardly any room for -
Blog / MIT Life
East Campus Pros and Cons, as Told by Residents "because EC is home 400ever"
. And yet I’ve been happy on the East Side for three years. That said, East Campus is not a dorm for everyone, but neither is any dorm at MIT ... community that fits you. For this post on East Campus pros and cons, I asked -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
A Summer Reading List The exciting hobby that I never have time for during the school year...
find summertime a particularly good season for the things I used to do ... those kids that would hide somewhere for six hours with a thick book (usually fantasy) until one of my parents found me and, for the millionth -
Blog / Academics & Research
Thirteen Things To Do Over IAP: #1-5 Concerning the half I spent at home
was probably quite lovely, but my stomach was too tightly knotted for me ... pencil down and saying goodbye to genetics, at least for the time being, I ... remained at home for two more weeks, not returning to Cambridge until this -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
Highlight Reel Parents! A cappella! Thesis! Superheroes! Film class! And generally hanging in there @ MIT
went a little differently for me as an upperclassman than it did for me ... seeing and doing on campus. They didn’t even register for the weekend ... together—or as back together as we can be until she comes home for Christmas -
Blog / Academics & Research
Year 2 at Hogwarts Holy Hell, I'm a sophomore
usually announcing an available UROP or a company seeking applicants for ... . Literally dozens of opportunities for you to explore new research or get a job ... experience I’m still stacking up on, which is a chance for me to babble about -
Blog / Academics & Research
Where did my Summer Go? Written 30,000 feet above the ground in a giant piece of metal
for a tubular products company, TMK IPSCO. What I did not mention is ... to South Korea for two weeks to work on a project. In the words of one ... with some of the coolest people in the world. And it did happen for a -
Blog / IAP
Different Perspectives IAP from the minds of a few different people
, and it’s especially prevalent over IAP. I teach Hebrew for fun and as a ... especially useful for anyone planning on doing MISTI Israel. In one of the ... Engineering and Computer Science I'm doing two activities for this IAP. The