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• Apply / First-year applicants

  DACA & undocumented applicants

  As part of our mission to uphold meritocracy and fair access for ... consider your (in)ability to pay for MIT in our admissions process ... personal expenses. MIT is committed to supporting undocumented students in
• Apply / Preparing for MIT

  Be yourself!

  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 better place. It can be tricky to sum up all that you’re passionate about
• Apply / First-year applicants

  Essays, activities & academics

  brings people with diverse backgrounds together to collaborate, from ... , or contribute to your community together. How did you manage a ... Rather than asking you to write one long essay, the MIT application
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  First-year learning communities

  figure out how to work together and what strengths they each bring to the ... , you move to a new city, live with a new roommate, enroll in new classes ... trying to navigate your new life! Amidst the huge changes, some students

• Online info sessions

  together a little virtual-MIT-choose your own-adventure experience to get you ... [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 / Life and culture

  Eating at MIT

  setting. [/intro] Everyone prefers to eat differently: alone or together ... [intro]You can choose to join a conventional meal plan with access to ...  approach to housing, we give our students options about where, how, and what to
• Discover / Life and culture

  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
• Apply / Transfer applicants

  Veterans

  to go through MIT together. As cliché as it sounds, simply being ... their service, and we are proud to support a community of veterans on ... forward to supporting you through the admissions process. How to apply
• Apply / Understanding the process

  What we look for

  key components: Alignment with MIT's mission MIT’s mission is to use science, technology, and other areas of scholarship to make the world better ... . Remember that there are many ways to make an impact—we're not looking for
• Help / Contact

  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

• Arts and music

  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 ... are more than a dozen active dance ensembles at MIT, and the best way to
• Discover / Life and culture

  The MIT community

  try to put together the best team of students to go through MIT together ... Professor Emeritus Jay Keyser once observed that "MIT is hard to get into, and even harder to leave."[/intro] The people at MIT The best asset of MIT
• Afford / Cost & affordability

  How to apply for aid

  paint a detailed picture of what kind of aid you’ll need to be able to attend MIT affordably. Three steps to apply for aid. CSS Profile: a tool provided by the College Board that we use to determine if you qualify for a
• Apply / Parents and educators

  How to write good letters of recommendation

  beyond their own self-advocacy.[/intro] A guide to writing evaluations for ... . Try to give a complete sketch of the student and the context of their ... . Try to address the following questions in your evaluation: What is

• Next steps

  [intro]You made it to the end of our virtual visit experience! We hope it helped you get to know MIT and the students that make this place so special. Before you go, we have some final resources for you to take
• Apply / Parents and educators

  Advising your students

  ways to define the best, and we think it’s important that young people be ... terms, we want students to pursue the things that interest them with energy and enthusiasm. We want students to make decisions that are
• Apply / Preparing for MIT

  Extracurricular activities

  Some students feel so much pressure to get into the “right” college that they want to make sure they do everything “right”—down to their extracurricular or co-curricular activities.  On our application, we ask for up to
• Apply / Transfer applicants

  Returning students

  Secondary school materials Some students apply to us after an ... experiences of students returning to higher education. At the same time, we need to evaluate students against a common baseline of preparation for a
• Apply / Parents and educators

  For parents

  enough to take the social and intellectual risks that make college really worthwhile. In order to best understand how this process works, we encourage you to review information we've posted about the first-year application
• Discover / The MIT education

  Global education

  [intro] A majority of MIT students travel to study, research, work ... can expect to have at least one international experience with research ... that offers opportunities to study for the semester, year, or summer at a