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    WISE 2025

    ; please draft your responses on a separate page or document. How to apply in ... , or might be the first in their family to attend college. Please note ... territories to be eligible to attend. Program overview WISE begins in the
  • Apply / Preparing for MIT

    College access & advising programs

    application process, learning how to tell your story, and finding a school where ... found helpful in their education journeys. You may also want to talk to counselors, teachers, or other leaders in your local community to explore
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    The first year

    ) interests in order to develop their plans for further study. Before we get to ... design principles and educational theory in order to understand how and why ... students time to adjust to factors like increased workloads and variations in
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    About MITAdmissions.org

    blogs back in 2004, we had to use external hosting and an external domain name in order to do so. Since then, we've built up a following and sense ... admissions blogs are an institution we started in 2004 to help our students
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    About MIT Admissions

    potential relative to their context, and to allocate scarce seats in the class ... anyone should be able to understand how to apply to MIT, be able to ... 'insider' knowledge. We also believe in truth-in-advertising and try to
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    Undergraduate research

     credit. How to UROP You may apply for advertised UROP positions or propose your ... [intro]One of the earliest programs of its kind in the United States ... .[/intro] In 1969, Margaret MacVicar, then a 26-year-old MIT professor (and
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    Books about MIT

    how MIT's first nine presidents helped transform the Institute from a ... the evolution of MIT as seen in a series of crucial decisions over the ... , values, and controversies in which the college admissions process is
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    Academic foundations

    .S. who have access to coursework modeled after curricula available in ... matters is that you are prepared to take, and do well in, a class that ... . While some students may be able to enroll in a class called "Calculus
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    Via email

    emails tend to spike especially around the application deadlines, so please be patient if we don't respond in realtime."] get back to you as ... , then we'll sort out who needs to respond and [annotation note="We get
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    Eating at MIT

     approach to housing, we give our students options about where, how, and what to eat. Your options If you choose to live in one of the six ... restaurants In addition to meal plans and cook-for-yourself communities, there
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    The MIT community

    Professor Emeritus Jay Keyser once observed that "MIT is hard to get into, and ... themselves in our students, and our students, in some cases, aspire to become ... Association for extraordinary, lifelong service to the Institute. Our values In
  • Apply / Transfer applicants

    Returning students

    in getting to know you. This includes the secondary school materials ... or in a non-degree program to brush up on their classroom experience ... Secondary school materials Some students apply to us after an
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    Visit our office

    . Getting to the Welcome Center The MBTA's Red Line is your best option to get ... there. In addition to being faster, cheaper, and better for the ... [intro]Admissions at MIT Welcome Center[/intro] If you plan to visit
  • Schedule your campus visit

    ="https://apply.mitadmissions.org/portal/visitmit"]Register[/button_link] In-person group tours If you would like to bring a group of 6–50 people ... In-person info sessions and tours We offer two types of campus visits ... reservation for a session, we will not be able to accommodate you. [button
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    QuestBridge

    to MIT directly. In addition to the QB application, you will also need ... . Please see the Student Financial Services website for details on how to ... directions on how to submit their letter. Portfolios: You are also eligible
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    Interview

    About the interview At MIT we don't just want to see how you look on paper; we're interested in the whole person. That's why, whenever possible ... interviews will take place in January. If we are unable to offer you an
  • Apply / Preparing for MIT

    Be yourself!

    your recommenders write—to better understand you and your achievements in ... your life and your expectations around the narrow goal of trying to get ... : In simple terms, we want students to pursue the things that interest
  • Maps, directions, parking

    Street, Cambridge, MA 02142 Getting to the Welcome Center The MBTA's Red Line is your best option to get to the Welcome Center! Depending on where ... . In addition to being faster, cheaper, and better for the environment
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    For parents

    enough to take the social and intellectual risks that make college really worthwhile. In order to best understand how this process works, we encourage ... you in the process and tell you what you and your child need to know