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    Extracurricular activities

    four activities that are the most important to you. Your academics don ... about who you are and how you spend your time outside of schoolwork ... application where you can describe any jobs you've had."]work,[/annotation] or
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    Via mail

    -200 Cambridge, MA 02139 Please note, this is not where our office is, in case you are planning to stop by and say “hi!”
  • Discover / Life and culture

    Athletics & recreation

    United States. About a quarter of our students are varsity athletes, and ... other universities, while intramural sports are teams of MIT students competing against each other. There are more than 30 club sports at MIT
  • Apply / Understanding the process

    Our selection process

    committee, where multiple groups of different admissions staff and faculty ... own. We have no quotas by school, state, or region. You are not at any disadvantage if other excellent students from your school or area are also
  • Apply / Parents and educators

    For school counselors

     admissions officers read applications from around the country and world, and are prepared to speak with you and answer your questions.[/intro] Call us We are ... outside of the reading season. You are our professional colleagues, and we
  • Discover / The MIT education

    Maker education

    stores your access credentials. It also runs a 3D printing service where ... set of makerspaces where you can design and test your out ... students that are used to make...whatever you want! Like this: [embed

  • Maps, directions, parking

    Admissions at MIT Welcome Center We are located at the MIT Welcome ... Line is your best option to get to the Welcome Center! Depending on where you are coming from, you could also walk, bike, take the bus, or maybe a
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    Visit our office

    to the Welcome Center! Depending on where you are coming from, you ... , we are located at the MIT Welcome Center near the Kendall Square T ... Square, it is pretty expensive and unpredictably limited. If you are
  • Discover / The MIT education

    Independent Activities Period

    January during which faculty and students are freed from the rigors of ... than 600 activities are offered each year, and regular students paying ... legendary MIT events are hosted, including: Mystery Hunt, one of the oldest
  • Discover / Life and culture

    The MIT community

     humans of MIT are truly special, and we hope that among them you will find a sense of home. Our undergraduates In any given year there are ~4 ... . We wish we could tell you about how awesome our undergrads are. But
  • Apply / First-year applicants

    Essays, activities & academics

    makes you "look best," as opposed to the answers that are honest and easy ... know you lead a busy life, full of activities, many of which are required ... -information text box where you can tell us anything else you think we really ought to
  • Apply / First-year applicants

    International applicants

    we continue to welcome them today. If you are an international student ... this page, there are several organizations that will help you learn how ... .']regardless of where they live or attend school.[/annotation] U.S. permanent
  • Apply / First-year applicants

    Early vs Regular

    not place any limits on where else you may apply, nor do we require you ... ’re only allowed to apply once per entry year. Students who are denied Early Action are not eligible to apply Regular Action.
  • Apply / Parents and educators

    For parents

    only: finding the right fit. This means finding a community where your ... , regardless of age, about their applications. We are not able to discuss an
  • Discover / The MIT education

    Majors & minors

    best; you are then free to choose from among any of MIT's courses of ... [intro]At MIT, majors are conventionally called courses, and they're numbered rather than named; meanwhile, our credits are called units and they
  • Discover / About MIT

    Life after MIT

    . Here are some of the things they do next.[/intro] Careers Career ... ; Professional Development. Throughout the academic year, there are opportunities ... , starting income, and largest employers by major, are publicly available in
  • Apply / Preparing for MIT

    Be yourself!

    you’re feeling lost about where to start, there are resources that help ... who you are today, who you’d like to become, and why MIT is the right ... connection with wherever they call home. We are emphatically not looking for
  • Discover / The MIT education

    The first year

    academic preparation. Students are encouraged to improve time ... Designing the First Year Experience, where students studied complex system ... . DesignPlus DesignPlus is a small community of first-year students who are
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    About MIT Admissions

    realizing our vision, we are guided by several principles that help us do the right thing by our applicants and our institution. We are egalitarian For ... contributes to the merit of each class. We are fortunate to be able to consider
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    About MITAdmissions.org

    MIT's Office of Undergraduate Admissions. We are located on our own ... admissions blogs are an institution we started in 2004 to help our students ... community we hoped to build around MIT Admissions. We think our blogs are a