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  • Apply / Understanding the process

    What we look for

    money to interesting lectures—and it’s up to each student to choose a path ... fail—and who know how to build a support system to keep them afloat ... the things they care about. We don’t expect applicants to do a million

  • Policies

    providing an inclusive and accessible environment. To that end, we have a central accessibility website where you can find all of MIT's accessibility resources in ...  attribution (give appropriate credit to MIT admissions and the blogger, and provide a link to the
  • Apply / Parents and educators

    Advising your students

    siblings or working 20-30 hours a week to support their family), or who come ... ways to define the best, and we think it’s important that young people be ... Dean of Admissions, Stu Schmill '86, wrote in a blog post: In simple
  • Discover / The MIT education

    Global education

    [intro] A majority of MIT students travel to study, research, work ... , and labs for research or work a teaching program where students teach ... that offers opportunities to study for the semester, year, or summer at a
  • Discover / Life and culture

    Housing at MIT

    's up to you where you choose to make your home. Mentorship is a big part ... . You choose where you live, and each living group is a community with its ... , you develop ranked preferences about where you want to live, which you

  • Explore MIT on your own

    —you’ll find a link to the next stop in this virtual ... [intro]You don't have to travel to Cambridge to get a feel for MIT ... new things—whether on campus or off—there's more than enough to explore
  • Discover / The MIT education

    Maker education

    come to be called a "maker education."[/intro] Our motto The motto ... stores your access credentials. It also runs a 3D printing service where ... project-based, and require you to become a creative, skilled maker
  • Apply / First-year applicants

    Early vs Regular

    fine to apply during either cycle. We do not have a preference, and there is no strategic benefit to applying in one vs the other. We have two ... apply to another school during Early Action that does have a restriction
  • Apply / First-year applicants

    Letters of recommendation

     and—when available—a School Profile and letter of recommendation). You will be able to ... ! (If you're a teacher looking for guides on how to write good letters of ... not be penalized in this case. We are also able to accept a
  • Discover / The MIT education

    Independent Activities Period

    ,[/annotation] IAP has grown to be a unique feature of the MIT education, offering ... machine to a crash course in stand-up comedy. Other students take the time ... where participants write AIs to control armies of virtual robots and
  • Apply / Transfer applicants

    U.S. Military Veterans

    before and after their service, and we are proud to support a community of ... (like a community college or another four-year college) to brush up on ... courses—is essential to a student’s success at MIT. If you don’t have access

  • Clubs, activities, and athletics

    [intro]From puppies to pyrotechnics, MIT students organize hundreds ... . Chances are, if you're into something, you can find someone else on campus to share that excitement with.[/intro] Student activities Sure, there

  • Student life at MIT

    likely get 4,500 unique answers from each of our undergrads as to what a ... freely from lectures to labs, from dance floors to darkrooms, from study breaks to startup meetings, from dining halls to family dinners. We could
  • About

    About MIT Admissions

    technology. The students we enroll add to a vibrant campus community and will ... ="Including annotations where necessary."]comprehensive and comprehensible a manner as we ... admissions process, as well as our commitment to a level playing field
  • Discover / Learn more

    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
  • About

    About MITAdmissions.org

    blog to be a place where people feel safe– not that they won’t face hard ... name in order to do so. Since then, we've built up a following and sense ... only a few months old and restricted to a handful of colleges, which
  • Discover / The MIT education

    The first year

    by choosing among a variety of ways to complete core subjects and ... designate up to 48 units to be graded on a pass/no record basis after their ... . ESG students have a dedicated facility (including a kitchen) where
  • Apply / Understanding the process

    Our selection process

    reading—but there are a few you really need to read. These are the blog ... How it works After you click the submit button, it's easy to feel like your application has entered a black hole. So what really happens