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    About MIT Admissions

    acknowledge that there are many ways to define the "the best" students, and that ... , and a responsibility, and requires a public and institutional trust that ... technology. The students we enroll add to a vibrant campus community and will
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    Extracurricular activities

    four activities that are the most important to you. Your academics don’t shape your whole personal context, and our goal is to understand more ... on family, [annotation note="There is another section on the MIT
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    International applicants

    understand life is more rich and complicated than a checkbox, and we take that ... colleges, including MIT. This is a quick overview to help you understand how ... note='We recognize that this designation may not correspond to the lived
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    A brief history of MIT

    MIT mission. The mission of MIT is to advance knowledge and educate ... with a heartfelt belief: that the American educational system of the 19th ... envisioned a new education to unify mens et manus, mind and hand, theory and
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    Life after MIT

    admissions. We believe that there is only one road to—and through—MIT. It is ... , and our alumni are proud of that.  Everything else There's a lot more to ... world one day as well. It is a point of policy and principle that MIT

  • Policies

    ), October 2015 A diverse student body is and has long been critical to the ... providing an inclusive and accessible environment. To that end, we have a ...  attribution (give appropriate credit to MIT admissions and the blogger, and provide a link to the
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    For school counselors

     admissions officers read applications from around the country and world, and are ... always happy to have a professional conversation on the phone, especially ... hope to both learn from you what is happening on the ground in high
  • Discover / The MIT education

    Global education

    that offers opportunities to study for the semester, year, or summer at a ... and grants to support sustainable, for-profit enterprises that promote ... [intro] A majority of MIT students travel to study, research, work
  • Discover / Life and culture

    The MIT community

    Professor Emeritus Jay Keyser once observed that "MIT is hard to get into, and ... will inspire and guide you along the way. What follows is a brief ... can do is read the blogs and see for yourself. Graduate students There
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    Transfer credit & advanced standing

    There are some exams that are—by design and in name—standardized across ... official scores and/or certifications to the Office of the First Year, and ... Advanced Standing Exam, or ASE, to test out of a course.  An ASE is
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    Summer programs

    . Similar to the way we look at a student’s extracurricular activities, there ... . The program is free of charge to participating students and provides ... -level curriculum with other students from around the country. There are a range of
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    Inventions & innovations

    bandage of the future: a gel-like material that can incorporate tiny drug-delivering channels that release medicine in response to changes in skin temperature and ... diagnostic tool with the potential to transform research and global public
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    STEM programs

    people who dare to enjoy nerdy things, and help you prepare for the rigor ... students come from a wide variety of contexts and may not be able to access ... below the age of 21 who have not completed secondary education; there is
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    Be yourself!

    , love to learn, and want to work on big problems to make the world a ... who you are today, who you’d like to become, and why MIT is the right ... -year opportunity to become more yourself than you’ve ever been, at a place that is
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    College access & advising programs

    (though we try to be as transparent as possible at MIT!) and it can take the ... application process, learning how to tell your story, and finding a school where ... Hawaiian high school students, open to current sophomores and juniors. MIT is
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    About MITAdmissions.org

    things to be said, and a blog conversation is much the same. “Once you ... cultivate this garden, all we ask is that you don't be a jerk. We reserve the ... name in order to do so. Since then, we've built up a following and sense
  • Apply / Understanding the process

    First-year class profile

    methodology is a federal standard that the United States government requires ... according to the [annotation note='The IPEDS methodology is a federal standard ... , but is higher than zero, which is indicated by <1%."]rounded to the
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    Academic foundations

    matters is that you are prepared to take, and do well in, a class that ... that you’re ready to do the work, and helps you make the most of the ... the basic principles of calculus as a tool of problem solving. That is