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• Blog / Summer

  Preparing for College or not*

  

  I leave for college. And while the average incoming freshman might ... offers to pick me up or make plans… and I still hesitate. I think it

  • by Hala K. '29
  • August 15, 2026
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waitlist Decisions 2011 MIT Class of 2015 waitlist decisions will be released today, via email, at approximately 3pm…

  

  offer (it is an understood part of admissions that some people will ... waitlist offer) or decline it. For all other students on the waitlist, we ... Time) that we will not be able to offer them admission. At that point, we

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • May 10, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Class of 2012 Profiles of MIT's new freshmen.

  

  degree. So I'm very committed to coming in the fall--MIT has a lot to offer ... areas like programming, media, and electronics and offers college courses ... become official college students! Often, I get emails asking what the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 2, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Visiting MIT & Boston colleges Some tips for checking out MIT and Boston this summer.

  

  Summer is a great time to visit colleges in Boston. There are more than 50 colleges and universities in Greater Boston, making it easy to visit a variety of colleges from one base. Most of the major universities

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 11, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.007: Where even your smallest part matters The 2.007 competition has come to close!

  

  humanities, and only one graduate ball represents the coveted MIT diploma ... ) and comforted me. Bryan even offered for me to take apart his robot to

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 18, 2006
• Blog / Announcements

  We are reinstating our SAT/ACT requirement for future admissions cycles in order to help us continue to build a diverse and talented MIT

  

  attended, and eventually transitioned to similar exams offered by the College ... offered at your high school, and there are immense disparities between ... offer any remedial math classes ‘below’ the level of single

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • March 28, 2022
• FAQ / QuestBridge

  What happens if I’m not selected as a Match?

  All QuestBridge College Match results are announced in early December ... choose to accept the offer, or not accept the offer and apply to other ... with any schools. If you ranked MIT as one of your College Match schools
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Starbucks. I'm getting a little too familiar with it.

  

  feels like it's made for college students, what with all the long study ... expected. The high for today is 59 degrees, with a low of 51, and while I ... , thunderstorms, 98-degree days, followed by rain and a 40 degree temperature drop

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • June 14, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Promise of Ending ...is labor and sharing and loving.

  

  later, I had produced this image, a "diploma mock-up -- for illustrative ... between me and an MIT diploma is ICE 2. I remember lounging around my suite

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 22, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  How many MIT students does it take to figure out how to rotate a cube? (More than I’m proud to admit)

  

  degree increments?” [annotation note="The question was originally proposed ... New York City like a normal college student. For those of you who ... -degree increments. To describe an object’s orientation, you needed just two

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • October 29, 2023
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Three Things That Are Awesome (And have been keeping me from writing recently -- Sorry!)

  

  Science) at MIT, I am able to stay on to complete a Master's Degree. The M ... the Master's degree as well as the Bachelor's in only 5 years. (If the two degrees were completed sequentially, they would generally take a

  • by Kim D. '09
  • October 1, 2009
• Blog / Advice

  Exploring Classes a guide

  

  regarding course offerings and suggested paths to degree completion. Most at ... year. MIT Degree Charts [image_grid images="56243,56244" /] The MIT Degree Charts show all the requirements for each major. This is very useful

  • by Alex M. '21
  • August 29, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  majoring in 21E: frequently asked questions what it's like to study humanities at a stem school

  

  anyway. MIT offers a really cool unique thing known as joint degrees, a ... joint degree between science and humanities, 21E with engineering and ... computer science degree. I don't like the computer science degree

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 23, 2021
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT after SFFA technology and the dream, deferred

  

  attend college, and did not accompany me to campus. In fact, the first time ... some degree or other, and to them I say — unequivocally — that every ... in Queens — was about to begin my college education at the most famous

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • August 21, 2024
• Blog / Athletics

  Refactored

  

  weekend-long conference in Chicago (what a city!) sponsored by the College Board. The conference brought together admissions officers, college ... socioeconomic diversity in college admissions, among moany of my weekend

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 2, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  Q&A The ones that passed the "lmgtfy" test

  

  the community college I'm attending for the next two years in place of ... I wasn't prepared for. The counselors at the college assure me that by the end of this year I will have had all the pre-college math I need

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 10, 2013
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Applying to College vs. Applying to Jobs yes you heard me, the application process NEVER ENDS

  

  , applying to college. This college may even be MIT. But, readers, if you ... college apps, you would be sadly mistaken. Once you get to college, you might want to apply for an internship. Just like applying to college

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 6, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  iCyd This, my friends, is a GREEN APPLE!

  

  set on pursuing a degree in course 16 (aero/astro engineering). After a ... offers. Thus, this semester marks a brand new start for me at MIT. Moral ... completing your degree in exactly 4 years (which is not always a bad thing

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • October 4, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Waitlist post Answers to waitlist FAQs.

  

  the offer of admission from another college before May 1. After May 1 ... waitlist? We offered 389 applicants -- approximately 3% of applicants -- a ... accept our offer of admission. Some years, we overpredict (as in the past

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 27, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Curseroad MIT class roadmaps that shouldn’t exist but theoretically could

  

  information about the requirements for each major, when classes are offered, and ... ’t learn college-level differential equations or quantum mechanics in high ... this year. Course 6n’t For better or worse, my own MIT degree audit is

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 6, 2023