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    A brief history of MIT

    congressman and senator in a state's congressional delegation—to fund colleges and universities, open in their admission to ordinary people, that would ... .'](re)committed it[/annotation] to acting in the public interest in perpetuity.  A new
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    First-year learning communities

    . “We take a spring break trip to kind of get to see that year’s topic in ... , you move to a new city, live with a new roommate, enroll in new classes ... filled with couches and bean bags for students to relax in between classes
  • Apply / Parents and educators

    Advising your students

    quantity to crowd out interest in the common good. Because when you get to ... educationally sound for them to best prepare them to succeed in college and beyond. We want students to challenge themselves appropriately in the areas
  • Apply / Preparing for MIT

    Extracurricular activities

    Some students feel so much pressure to get into the “right” college that they want to make sure they do everything “right”—down to their extracurricular or co-curricular activities.  On our application, we ask for up to
  • Apply / Understanding the process

    Our selection process

    How it works After you click the submit button, it's easy to feel ... who will consider your application in a holistic manner, within its ... summaries, along with your entire application, will then go to the selection
  • Apply / Transfer applicants

    Veterans

    forward to supporting you through the admissions process. How to apply ... in advanced math and science both improves your odds of getting into ... eligible for benefits that can significantly aid in your costs to attend MIT
  • Discover / The MIT education

    Maker education

    former you get from learning in the classroom, and the latter from making ... Makerspace, in the works In addition to our research opportunities ... product design class at MIT; and MAS.863 How to Make Almost Anything, which
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    STEM programs

    these activities. We don't expect or require applicants to participate in ... students PRIMES-USA, a free, year-long research program in math open to ... travel to) MIT's campus in Cambridge, MA: Educational Studies Program
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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
  • Discover / The MIT education

    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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    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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    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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    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