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• Blog / About Decisions

  Wait List Decisions 2013 Is it supposed to be waitlist, wait list, or wait-list? Oh never mind...

  

  on our wait list via email that we will not be able to offer them ... awesome college experiences. Big virtual hugs to you all, and we wish you

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • May 13, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waitlist and transfer: quick update No decisions yet, but some notes & reminders.

  

  , you should accept the offer of admission from another college before May

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 27, 2009
• Blog / IAP

  Thanksgiving Reflections Be thankful.

  

  things I think about coming to college is complete freedom in learning to ... , I still have to be back latest at home around 9 or 10. In college, you ... coming to college. Sometimes I look at the people who manage to do 3452

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 24, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Spring break Q&A! ask me questions :-D

  

  . Doesn't matter if you're a high school student, a college graduate, an 82 ... go to a college, which was my plan after high school, I'm not sure what would change. My life would definitely look different to some degree, but

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • March 23, 2026
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Blast From The Past: Garage Hero! Turn your Guitar Hero controller into a MIDI Garageband device.

  

  In the old days, when I was in college - when dinosaurs roamed the earth, or at the very least when Facebook didn't yet offer photos or ... college, I was an Apple Campus Rep. It was basically a marketing and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 24, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Progression of Spirit You must be this tall to ride the MIT Emotional Rollercoaster

  

  everything college has to offer. They want to work hard, show their parents ... enjoys floor parties and creates fond memories of college, as evidenced by

  • by Snively '11
  • January 8, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  More On The Interview… You don't need to take up the crumhorn to look "different."

  

  I wanted to offer a few more comments on the interview. While we have ... 's been a student there. College admissions is all about the "match" and ... from your classmates (common advice you might hear from college

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • October 30, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s All About The Process Take a moment, then get back in the game.

  

  received other great offers of admissions from very good colleges. So you too ... diversity is to 'relax the standards'. I can't speak for other Colleges

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  General Advice Application advice for HS juniors and sophomores, inspired by a student's question

  

  topics: Advice on the college interview (Mitra) Advice on the application ... college, so be proud of who you are and what you have done. No matter what ... the most general sort of advice I can offer. If you (mostly juniors, but

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 19, 2006
• FAQ / QuestBridge

  How do I apply to MIT through QuestBridge?

  If you’re applying to MIT through QuestBridge College Match, simply ... offer made up of grants and scholarships that will meet 100% of your ... to the College Match Scholarship.
• Blog / Admissions

  Likelihood

  

  some other top colleges do." For those of you not up to speed on what a ... from two years ago. In increasing numbers, colleges are wooing their ... admissions offers for these schools won't be sent out for a long time

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 19, 2005
• Blog / Class Projects

  everything i made this year (mostly)

  

  , whatever you want to call it, with 5 degrees of freedom (aka it can move the ... to 2021... When I was applying to colleges in senior year of high ... that come with a degree from MIT, and although these things may not be as

  • by Gloria Z. '26 MEng '27
  • January 1, 2025
• FAQ / First-year application

  Does MIT offer a foundation year?

  MIT does not offer a foundation year program. Students currently enrolled in a foundation year program may apply for first-year admission if their foundation year is not considered the first year of university in
• Blog / About Decisions

  Famous people who didn’t go to MIT Some people are more successful because they turned down admission to MIT.

  

  shock, he hid the envelope. Hid it from his parents, friends and college ... , he was admitted to MIT. In response to the admission offer, he took MIT's offer to do a gap year(s) to focus on his racing career, looking to return

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 23, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  This One is for the Families… ...but applicants can read it as well...

  

  than they had been before they went off to college. My grandfather has ... really complicated I thought it might be worthwhile to offer some of my ... another college essay) but we hope they will quickly realize that they will

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • March 12, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to Fail: Part 1 Dealing with failure and trying to move past it.

  

  some sort of Associates’ Degree, from a community college*. So I became ... tons of paths to success. People often go to community college or a junior college their first two years, for example, and do very well. In

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 21, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  No Chance Why "chance" sites like AdmissionSplash are Bad Things.

  

  College Applicants What Their Chances Are. It's created quite a buzz on ... launching a Facebook app called AdmissionSplash that shows prospective college ... admission data they release.   Applying to college, especially

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 8, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Your Friendly Neighborhood Dream-Destroyer "How Could You Work There?"

  a buddy who wanted to hang out. Since I was a college admissions ... was quite confused during my own college application process. Although ... , neither had attended college themselves and couldn't be as helpful as they

  • by DJ Rock
  • May 30, 2019
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  [Guest Post] We’re Not in ~Kansas~ Missouri Anymore Going From a Small Town to Boston, by Claire S. '25

  

  colleges. This network is brand new this academic year. “Where do you want to go to college?” There it was again, the dreaded question high ... aggressive, the answer felt obvious. But I applied to colleges using the “throw

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 17, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  Denied by MIT, 5 Years Later what happened after pi day 2011

  

  gone to college all over country, few of them decided to take gap, but ... Physics, I joined [a technical college] as a Computer Science student. This college was like 3000 km away from my hometown, it was so weird. I was in a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 5, 2016