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    Athletics & recreation

    addition to a Division I crew program. MIT is highly competitive within its NEWMAC conference. It is possible to be a student and athlete at MIT ... United States. About a quarter of our students are varsity athletes, and
  • Apply / Transfer applicants

    The transfer application

    instructor recommendations: One letter of recommendation should come from a math or science professor; the other can come from any academic ... fee presents a hardship for you and your family, you may request a fee

  • 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 ... freely from lectures to labs, from dance floors to darkrooms, from study

  • Online info sessions

    matched with a current student who can answer your questions! [button ... [intro]There are many ways to get to know us, right from the comfort of your own home![/intro] Join us for an online session Sign up to see
  • Discover / The MIT education

    Independent Activities Period

     of intellectual or extracurricular nature on everything from making a pinball ... [intro]Independent Activities Period (IAP) is a four-week period in January during which faculty and students are freed from the rigors of
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    Admissions videos

    tradition. You can watch them all in a YouTube playlist here, or in the ... ."]incredibly dated now,[/annotation] this video was, for its time, a major production ... the country to be shown at meetings for prospective students for a
  • Discover / The MIT education

    Undergraduate research

    you a point of entry to begin work that can last a lifetime. Hands ... presentations, and even the occasional invention—and you can take part for pay or ... research, for pay or for credit, during their undergraduate years
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    Letters of recommendation

    one evaluation from a math/science teacher, and one from a humanities ... ! (If you're a teacher looking for guides on how to write good letters of ... recommendation from teachers. One recommendation should be from a math or science
  • Apply / Preparing for MIT

    Extracurricular activities

    application where you can describe any jobs you've had."]work,[/annotation] or ... extracurricular or co-curricular activities.  On our application, we ask for up to ... .  Some students find room for many activities in high school; others prefer
  • Apply / Preparing for MIT

    Academic foundations

    taken [annotation note="For many students, a math sequence might include ... -calculus, which are designed to lay the groundwork for a calculus course that ... builds a foundation for our [annotation note="While at MIT, all students
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    International applicants

     and local advising centers. Am I international? For the purposes of the ... page is simply intended to be a helpful resource for people who are less ... MIT has a very long history of educating international students, and
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    Early vs Regular

    cycles for two reasons: 1) it helps us spread our work out over a longer ... applicants with more options so they can choose which works best for them ... fine to apply during either cycle. We do not have a preference, and there
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    DACA & undocumented applicants

    note='A term for students who have received Deferred Action for Childhood ... preservation of DACA and advocating for a pathway to citizenship, and MIT filed ... subcommittee of the Boston Teachers’ Union, has created a resource for applying

  • Clubs, activities, and athletics

    might expect. But MIT students also run a Laboratory for Chocolate Science ... [intro]From puppies to pyrotechnics, MIT students organize hundreds ... . Chances are, if you're into something, you can find someone else on campus
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    Interview

    interview. Here are some guidelines for what to expect from interviewers ... , we offer an interview with a member of the MIT Educational Council, a ... whenever possible, however you may coordinate a virtual interview if agreed

  • Request a group tour

    Thank you for your interest in a private group tour of MIT! Please ... Groups of 6–50 students are welcome to submit a request for a private group ... confirmed until you receive a confirmation email from our office. We require a
  • Discover / The MIT education

    Cross-registration

    Institute, you can cross-register for no additional cost at Harvard, Wellesley ... the HASS requirement where appropriate. You can read one of Yuliya ... and objective inquiry, and recognize and provide opportunities for
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    Other videos

    ."]DLCs[/annotation]have a YouTube channel where they post videos about teaching, research, and people. It's hard to narrow down thousands of videos, but here are a few of ... More than 40 MIT[annotation note="That's jargon for Departments, Labs
  • Discover / The MIT education

    Majors & minors

    chart below to get a quick visual sense of what you can study at MIT, read ... 're counted differently than at most other universities. The terminology can be confusing, but the important thing to know is that we have many things you can
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    First-year class profile

    percentages are [annotation note="Except for when a number would round to zero ... For the MIT Class of 2029 Some facts and figures about the ... methodology is a federal standard that the United States government requires