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    Interview

    About the interview At MIT we don't just want to see how you look on ... network of over 3,500 MIT graduates around the world who volunteer to meet ... upon with your EC. How After you submit your application, you may be
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    Letters of recommendation

    ! (If you're a teacher looking for guides on how to write good letters of ... evaluation. Please refer to the instructions on how to submit recommendations ... Social studies Geography How to submit Your school counselor (or
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    Be yourself!

    your life and your expectations around the narrow goal of trying to get ... If you’re thinking about applying to MIT, you're probably curious, love to learn, and want to work on big problems to make the world a
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    Majors & minors

    chart below to get a quick visual sense of what you can study at MIT, read ... confusing, but the important thing to know is that we have many things you can ... .[/intro] Your first year When you apply to MIT, you apply to the entire university
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    Visit our office

    .617.253.3400 between 9 AM and 4 PM ET, Monday through Friday. Getting to the Welcome ... best option to get to the Welcome Center! Depending on where you are ... [intro]Admissions at MIT Welcome Center[/intro] If you plan to visit
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    Clubs & activities

    club or organization to match your interests, it's easy to start your own, and get together with your friends to nerd out however your heart ... , including: Laboratory for Chocolate Science, a club dedicated to the

  • Maps, directions, parking

    .617.253.3400 between 9 AM and 4 PM ET, Monday through Friday. Getting to the Welcome ... your best option to get here! Depending on where you are coming from, you ... . We’re not able to accommodate walk-in questions from prospective
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    First-year eligibility

    [annotation note="Note that we do not formally require you to have graduated or earned a GED, though you may well choose to!"]concluded[/annotation] their secondary education and wish to pursue a bachelor's degree as a full
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    Life after MIT

    adventure novel, which is how we think life ought to be. If you want to ... [intro]As hard as it might be to imagine sometimes, there is life ... for students to interact with companies through career fairs, recruiting
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    Via tesseract

    learned to take short cuts wherever possible." "Sort of like in math?" Meg ... see," Mrs. Whatsit said, "if a very small insect were to move from the section of skirt in Mrs. Who's right hand to that in her left, it would be

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    plenty of travel time to get to campus, taking Boston traffic into ... Groups of 6–50 students are welcome to submit a request for a private group ... . Please note this tour is designed to assist prospective undergraduate
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    Summer programs

    We often get asked if there are particular summer programs students should do to prepare for applying to MIT, and our answer is always to spend ... . Similar to the way we look at a student’s extracurricular activities, there

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    Housing at MIT

    life. How this works is briefly reviewed below, but you can learn more at the MIT Housing website. Choosing where to live All incoming first-year students are sent the MIT Guide to Residences. The Guide includes data about
  • Discover / About MIT

    A brief history of MIT

    independent educational institution relevant to an increasingly industrialized ... envisioned a new education to unify mens et manus, mind and hand, theory and ... applied to the Massachusetts legislature for "an Act of Incorporation of the
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    Transfer eligibility

    -year applicant regardless of how many classes you may have taken at the university ... submit one application per entry year, meaning if you apply to enter in the ... who at the time of entry to MIT will have completed at least two terms

  • Arts and music

    get to know them is by watching them perform. Enjoy this performance by ... Orchestra, Festival Jazz Ensemble, and Rambax, a Senegalese drumming group, to name a few. Tune in below to watch the MIT Video Game Orchestra in their
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    First-year class profile

    percentages are [annotation note="Except for when a number would round to zero, but is higher than zero, which is indicated by <1%."]rounded to the ... composition of the Class of 2029 according to the [annotation note='The IPEDS
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    Creative portfolios

    submitted if they feature work that is both significant to you and relevant to ... to you. Research questionnaire: Complete a brief questionnaire ... to submit a letter of recommendation directly through the Slide