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  • Discover / The MIT education

    Independent Activities Period

    January during which faculty and students are freed from the rigors of ... both formal and informal learning and extracurricular opportunities. More than 600 activities are offered each year, and regular students paying
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    Newsletters

    (prospective undergraduates only, please). It's from us(!) and contains information about our admissions process, enrichment programs, and stories from ... MIT’s high-impact research, interesting people, and distinctive culture
  • Discover / Life and culture

    Housing at MIT

    . You choose where you live, and each living group is a community with its own distinct culture and traditions. MIT housing is guaranteed for eight consecutive semesters during your undergraduate experience, and all first
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    Admissions videos

    released, and making a video to announce Pi Day became an unexpected ... . It cost hundreds of thousands of dollars and was produced entirely by a major Madison Avenue marketing firm, and was taken "on the road" across
  • Apply / Preparing for MIT

    Be yourself!

    , love to learn, and want to work on big problems to make the world a ... and capable of in a college application.  As admissions officers, we open your MIT application without knowing anything about you, and we use
  • Apply / Parents and educators

    Advising your students

    [intro]As parents, counselors, teachers, mentors, and allies, we know ... ways to define the best, and we think it’s important that young people be students and community members first, and applicants second.[/intro] As our
  • Apply / First-year applicants

    Deadlines & requirements

    -Year application form: The form includes sections for biographical and personal information, essays, activities, and academics, recommendations, and test scores ... each high school and college attended. You can request the SSR, official
  • Apply / Preparing for MIT

    Extracurricular activities

    ’t shape your whole personal context, and our goal is to understand more about who you are and how you spend your time outside of schoolwork ... other obligations. Different communities across the country—and across the

  • Maps, directions, parking

    campus visits: Info session and student-led tour: Our info sessions are ... life, the application process, and financial aid. A student-led campus ... places on campus. Info sessions last half an hour, and student-led tours
  • Help / Contact

    Via phone

    Our phone number is 1.617.253.3400. That's it. That's the number you'd call, and we'll pick up as long as it's between 9AM and 4PM ET, Monday ... it's here, you can watch this true and factual documentary video of
  • Help / Contact

    Visit our office

    two types of campus visits: Info session and student-led tour: Our ... academics, campus life, the application process, and financial aid. A student ... places on campus. Info sessions last half an hour, and student-led tours
  • Discover / Life and culture

    Eating at MIT

    dining halls, or cook for yourself (and often, your friends) in a community ... , made or served, vegan or paleo, and so on. So, just like in our approach to housing, we give our students options about where, how, and what to
  • Apply / Parents and educators

    For school counselors

     admissions officers read applications from around the country and world, and are prepared to speak with you and answer your questions.[/intro] Reach out to us ... .[/annotation] You are our professional colleagues, and we hope to both learn from you

  • Student life at MIT

    “day in the life of an MIT student” looks like for them—and that's part ... (and often do) speak at length about our students, but why not get to ... '25, Allison '27, Amber '24, Ali '26, and Audrey '24) Next stop
  • Apply / First-year applicants

    Early vs Regular

    MIT has two application cycles: Early Action (EA) and Regular Action ... fine to apply during either cycle. We do not have a preference, and there ... period, devoting more time to each application, and 2) it provides
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    Other videos

    More than 40 MIT[annotation note="That's jargon for Departments, Labs, and Centers, the basic organizational entities that constitute MIT."]DLCs[/annotation]have a YouTube channel where they post videos about teaching, research, and
  • Apply / First-year applicants

    Transcripts

    counselor should also send a letter of recommendation and a school profile ... , you can ask another school official to send materials and fulfill the ... considered official, and should include three years of subject grades if
  • Apply / First-year applicants

    Creative portfolios

    Researchers, performing artists, visual artists, and makers may ... descriptions below. Creative portfolios are truly optional and should only be submitted if they feature work that is both significant to you and relevant to