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    Our selection process

    decision is correct in the context of the overall applicant pool, and that no ... -centered process, not a school- or region-centered process. This means that we do not ... application is complete, it will first be read by a senior admissions officer
  • Apply / First-year applicants

    International applicants

    colleges, including MIT. This is a quick overview to help you understand how ... understand life is more rich and complicated than a checkbox, and we take that ... . Visit our What to do in high school page to see what we recommend that all
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    About MITAdmissions.org

    name in order to do so. Since then, we've built up a following and sense of home at this domain, so we've just stayed here. This website is a ... cultivate this garden, all we ask is that you don't be a jerk. We reserve the
  • Apply / Preparing for MIT

    Academic foundations

    matters is that you are prepared to take, and do well in, a class that ... ’re attending [annotation note="In other words, a school that comes immediately ... the basic principles of calculus as a tool of problem solving. That is
  • Pages

    First-year learning communities

    , and the humanities, but in a small, hands-on environment that is much ... Navajo Nation. Terrascope classes are set up in a way that leaves students ... . “We take a spring break trip to kind of get to see that year’s topic in

  • infinite MIT

    technical know-how of MIT students, and I’m amazed they created this in their ... or Two: In which I ramble about how lucky I am to have such awesome ... American universities that is[annotation note='Prospective students are not

  • 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
  • Discover / Life and culture

    Eating at MIT

    note='E.g. in a residence that doesn’t have a dining hall, in FSILG ... before but learn how, and others decide that cooking is something they will learn to do eventually. There is no right or wrong answer overall, just a
  • Apply / First-year applicants

    Letters of recommendation

    ! (If you're a teacher looking for guides on how to write good letters of ... teacher, although this is not a hard requirement. You should ask a teacher ... not be penalized in this case. We are also able to accept a
  • Discover / About MIT

    Life after MIT

    world one day as well. It is a point of policy and principle that MIT ... students who don't go directly to graduate school, many do so in the future ... admissions. We believe that there is only one road to—and through—MIT. It is
  • Apply / Parents and educators

    For parents

    worthwhile. In order to best understand how this process works, we encourage ... the admissions process as a rite of passage—a challenging initiation that marks the transition out of childhood and into adult responsibility
  • Apply / Parents and educators

    Advising your students

    that you want what is best for your students. However, there are many ... Dean of Admissions, Stu Schmill '86, wrote in a blog post: In simple ... sacrificing quality for quantity–something that is happening far too often. We
  • Apply / Understanding the process

    What we look for

    they will tell you that while grades and scores are important in ... 're 15. Tutoring a single kid in math changes the world. Advocating for ... that’s registering for a challenging lab class, starting a company, or
  • Discover / Life and culture

    Housing at MIT

    practice than in our residential life. How this works is briefly reviewed ... [intro]Housing is a very important part of undergraduate life at MIT. You choose where you live, and each living group is a community with its
  • Apply / Preparing for MIT

    Transfer credit & advanced standing

    're still in high school, you're considered a first-year applicant regardless ... There are some exams that are—by design and in name—standardized across ... Advanced Standing Exam, or ASE, to test out of a course.  An ASE is
  • Apply / First-year applicants

    QuestBridge

    is from a math or science teacher, we strongly recommend that you ask ... Bridge recommendations is from a math or science teacher, we strongly recommend that you ... Bridge recommendations is from a math or science teacher, we strongly recommend that you
  • 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 ... in high school, you are considered a first-year applicant regardless of