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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
  • Discover / Learn more

    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 / 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] Call us We are ... outside of the reading season. You are our professional colleagues, and we
  • 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

  • MIT visits you

    you can learn more about MIT and see if it may be right for you.[/intro] You will often find us at NACAC college fairs and hosting information sessions in locations big and small, urban and rural, coastal and mountainous
  • 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 / First-year applicants

    Deadlines & requirements

    biographical and personal information, essays, activities, and academics ... teacher and one from a humanities, social science, or language teacher ... ) Form if applicable, and see your admission decision. Creative portfolios

  • 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