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    Transfer credit & advanced standing

    of how many classes you may have taken at the university level—even if you graduate with both a high school diploma and an associate's degree ... -secondary classes while they’re still in high school. Many of these programs offer
  • Apply / Preparing for MIT

    Accessing advanced coursework

    may carry themselves beyond what is offered at their local high school ... programs, which offer college-level courses at a local high school, college ... information.']Here’s a list of some dual enrollment programs offered across the
  • Apply / Parents and educators

    For home educators

    [intro]MIT has a long history of admitting homeschooled students, and these students are successful and vibrant members of our community ... . Homeschooled applicants make up less than 1% of our applicant pool (and less than
  • Discover / About MIT

    A brief history of MIT

    [intro]In 1865, the founding of MIT established a new kind of ... the public interest at the intersection of technology and humanity.[/intro] A private university in the public interest The story of MIT begins
  • Discover / The MIT education

    Global education

    that offers opportunities to study for the semester, year, or summer at a university overseas a global classroom program that offers students short ... [intro] A majority of MIT students travel to study, research, work
  • Discover / Learn more

    Books about MIT

    : Bosworth's New Tech by Mark M. Jarzombek, which offers an illustrated account ... chief campus planner Nightwork: A History of Hacks and Pranks at MIT ... Dean of Students and Undergraduate Education at MIT Technology and the

  • Explore MIT on your own

    .[/intro] Let's get started At the bottom of each page—starting with this one ... for free Enroll in one of MIT's free, self-paced courses offered through ... . Since folks at the Institute are always making, writing, and discovering
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    Summer programs

    and offered at locations in Colorado, Georgia, Indiana, New Mexico ... . Similar to the way we look at a student’s extracurricular activities, there ... start, here’s an incomplete list of summer programs that MIT students have
  • Discover / The MIT education

    Cross-registration

    [intro]In addition to the thousands of courses already offered by the ... Harvard University for degree credit at no extra charge. Harvard subjects ... students (of any sex or gender) may cross-register at Wellesley College
  • Discover / Life and culture

    Athletics & recreation

    other universities, while intramural sports are teams of MIT students ... 'Brien, and Barry fields, which offer acres of on-campus athletics fields for ... United States. About a quarter of our students are varsity athletes, and
  • Apply / First-year applicants

    DACA & undocumented applicants

    As part of our mission to uphold meritocracy and fair access for ... , regardless of citizenship or immigration status. Undocumented and [annotation ... students. For those students who face financial barriers, we offer fee
  • Afford / Cost & affordability

    How much it costs

    . We offer full-need financial aid, which means we meet 100% of your ... Services website. One of eight We are one of only eight American universities ... education. We award aid that meets 100% of your demonstrated financial need
  • Blog / Admissions

    Schools of dreams

    MIT staff blogger Matt McGann '00
    the first one: Not the same few colleges: The State University of New York at Stony Brook on Long Island, NY. I chose this to be the first ... and reputation, it is often discounted. So, at the end of each of my
  • Discover / The MIT education

    Majors & minors

    're counted differently than at most other universities. The terminology can be ... learn through programs that are at the leading edge of their field ... these schools offers degrees in their courses of study, as well as minors
  • Apply / First-year applicants

    International applicants

    [/annotation] at another university—either in America or abroad—must apply to MIT as ... MIT has a very long history of educating international students, and ... applying to an American school like MIT works. Some of the information in
  • Discover / The MIT education

    Maker education

    -year undergraduate students a new state-of-the art community makerspace, the MET ... [intro]MIT's dozens of makerspaces, dedicated hands-on classes, and experiential programs give you training in modern means of manufacture: what has
  • Apply / Preparing for MIT

    College access & advising programs

    consortium of colleges and universities dedicated to working with high schools ... the experience of being a rural student at MIT. Warrior-Scholar Project ... The process of applying to college isn’t always straightforward
  • Apply / Preparing for MIT

    Academic foundations

    look at three main categories of coursework to evaluate whether you ... calculus, [annotation note='All other quantitative fields of study at MIT ... covers at least the fundamentals of calculus before the end of high school