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    taxi/rideshare. We strongly encourage visitors not to drive to campus ...  must drive to campus itself, then your best bet is to set your address for the
  • Discover / Life and culture

    Athletics & recreation

    . In fact, MIT student-athletes have earned 419 Academic All ... school, MIT does not award athletic scholarships, nor do coaches get to ... ; intramural sports If you want to play sports but not at the varsity level, you
  • Discover / The MIT education

    The first year

    of having taken it; in the second term, students earn an A, B, C, or no ... the MIT education works and propose innovations to improve it. The ... Terrascope is a learning community where students work on interdisciplinary
  • Apply / Understanding the process

    What we look for

    NOT all about work. To be successful here, you must prioritize some ... Remember that there are many ways to make the world better—we're not looking ... MIT are designed to be worked on in groups, and cross-department labs
  • Apply / First-year applicants

    Early vs Regular

    fine to apply during either cycle. We do not have a preference, and there ... 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
  • Apply / Understanding the process

    Our selection process

    How it works After you click the submit button, it's easy to feel ... -centered process, not a school- or region-centered process. This means that we do not ... own. We have no quotas by school, state, or region. You are not at any
  • Apply / First-year applicants

    Getting started

    action cycle. Just do what works for you! Application fee or waiver Our ... -blind admissions, so requesting a fee waiver will not have any negative impact on ... now—not because we have any quotas. You won't declare your major until
  • Apply / Parents and educators

    For home educators

    granted a formal high school diploma, while others have not. Please note that we do not require a high school diploma or GED from our applicants. Successful homeschooled applicants We do not have separate requirements for
  • Apply / First-year applicants

    International applicants

    , you may not be familiar with the application process for American ... applying to an American school like MIT works. Some of the information in ... application, MIT considers any student who does not hold United States
  • About

    About MIT Admissions

    we do not take for granted and work very hard to keep. Our Mission The ... , tradition, and integrity of our work on behalf of the Institute and those who ... working at MIT Admissions is more than a job: it is a privilege, an honor
  • Apply / Preparing for MIT

    Be yourself!

    , love to learn, and want to work on big problems to make the world a ... connection with wherever they call home. We are emphatically not looking for ... do the work Becoming your best self What you shouldn’t do is build
  • Apply / Preparing for MIT

    Summer programs

    -focused summer program is what you’re looking for and you’re not sure where to ... summer programs MIT does not offer open-enrollment summer programs where ... free of charge to participating students, not including transportation
  • Apply / Preparing for MIT

    Academic foundations

    analytic thinking with creative hands-on work to prepare students to solve ... that you’re ready to do the work, and helps you make the most of the ... that hold true more often than not, so here are some recommendations for
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    About MITAdmissions.org

    domain (i.e., not on mit.edu) for historical reasons: when we started our ... resource about first-year and transfer admissions. We do not conduct ...  staff are speaking for themselves in their blog posts, and not on behalf of
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    Admissions videos

    Motion Picture (1992) While [annotation note="Though not without a certain ... by faculty of the need to work ethically in the production of science