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  • Discover / The MIT education

    MIT’s educational philosophy

    -motivated and engaged participants in a dynamic community of learners. We combine ... principles Since the first classes were offered in a storage warehouse in ... General Institute Requirements) a deep and skillful training in a
  • Discover / The MIT education

    Maker education

    experiential programs give you training in modern means of manufacture: what has come to be called a "maker education."[/intro] Our motto The motto ... -led clubs and teams, courses in engineering and high-speed photography, and a
  • Apply / Preparing for MIT

    Extracurricular activities

    .  Some students find room for many activities in high school; others prefer to concentrate on just a few. Some students may spend significant time ... your application. The test for any extracurricular should be whether it
  • Apply / First-year applicants

    Transcripts

    @mit.edu Most applicants have their counselor submit a transcript in our ... We require an official transcript sent by a school counselor or ... school does not have a school counselor, your transcript may be submitted
  • Apply / Preparing for MIT

    Transfer credit & advanced standing

    're still in high school, you're considered a first-year applicant regardless ... -secondary classes while they’re still in high school. Many of these programs offer ... you graduate with both a high school diploma and an associate's degree
  • Apply / Preparing for MIT

    Be yourself!

    and capable of in a college application.  As admissions officers, we ... application as a chance to share your personal context: what has shaped you into ... , love to learn, and want to work on big problems to make the world a
  • Apply / First-year applicants

    Deadlines & requirements

    The application The first-year application is closed in the MIT ... a math or science teacher and one from a humanities, social science ... recommendation—one from a math or science teacher and one from a humanities, social
  • Discover / About MIT

    A brief history of MIT

    alumni. As America entered World War I, MIT became a [annotation note="In ... [intro]In 1865, the founding of MIT established a new kind of ... America. Since then, MIT has built a robust tradition of solving problems in
  • Apply / Transfer applicants

    The transfer application

    should be uploaded within the MIT transfer application. Two college instructor recommendations: One letter of recommendation should come from a ... The following components should be submitted online: Transfer

  • Housing and residence life

    want to live in, giving students the chance to live in a place that feels ... kitchens! All residence halls have a live-in house team who cultivate ... undergraduate experience, and all first-year students live in one of our 10 on
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    First-year learning communities

    away learning what you can learn from a classroom in Cambridge, but ... a whole lot of change happening at once. In the span of a few weeks, you move to a new city, live with a new roommate, enroll in new classes
  • Apply / Parents and educators

    For school counselors

    hope to both learn from you what is happening on the ground in high ... interested in supporting a student's candidacy for admission to MIT, you may be interested in reviewing a few of the following pages to help orient you in our
  • Apply / First-year applicants

    Getting started

    action cycle. Just do what works for you! Application fee or waiver Our ... fees presents a hardship for some families. Fee waivers are available for both domestic and international applicants, and you can request one in
  • Discover / The MIT education

    Cross-registration

    [intro]In addition to the thousands of courses already offered by the ... , and MassArt.[/intro] We believe that MIT students should [annotation ... : “the Institute should encourage initiative, promote the spirit of free

  • Student life at MIT

    likely get 4,500 unique answers from each of our undergrads as to what a “day in the life of an MIT student” looks like for them—and that's part ... know them yourself? Student perspectives Explore a day in the Life of MIT
  • Afford / Cost & affordability

    How much it costs

    full data.']$10,268[/annotation] in the 2024–2025 academic year ... national average—a median of $20,288—and all alumni benefit from the lifelong ... ,000 a year (with typical assets) attend MIT tuition-free.⁠ This means that
  • Apply / Transfer applicants

    Transfer eligibility

    high school and will have completed at least one year of college before entering MIT. If you are still in high school, you are considered a first ... second bachelor’s degrees—even if you are interested in pursuing a
  • Apply / Transfer applicants

    Returning students

    or in a non-degree program to brush up on their classroom experience ... need to evaluate students against a common baseline of preparation for a rigorous MIT education. Even though you may have been away from school for a
  • Discover / The MIT education

    The first year

    ) interests in order to develop their plans for further study. Before we get to ... of having taken it; in the second term, students earn an A, B, C, or no ... ongoing experiment: in 2018, it was the subject of a design course called