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• Blog / Admissions

  Saying Yes (or No) Decision time is upon the Class of 2014. How to choose?

  

  you're declining our offer of admission (it's okay, we know you ... is currently a Ph.D. student at Harvard Medical School. She will be

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 21, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Another Day, Another Class

  

  picture of his favorite computer game offered by Mad Scientist Software. (I ... premed. Oh well...grad school here I come.

  • by Bryan
  • March 9, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  RA Selection Day 2

  

  universities and medical schools offer biomedical engineering (or bioengineering

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 17, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  The Role You Play in the Admissions Process by Jenny Rifken, Director of Recruitment and Associate Director of Admissions @ MIT.

  important to me? What did a school need to have in order for me to be happy there? I thought about general location, proximity from home, school size ... could be assured of some admissions offers, but I didn't count on being

  • by mitblogs
  • October 26, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Take 1.618: Film at MIT [by Danbee Kim '09] There are very few things for which I would get up…

  

  - should I go to art school, or should I do the "safe" thing and get a "real" degree? When my acceptance letter from MIT arrived, things got a little ... take while I could; I could always go to art school later, right

  • by ARTalk
  • April 2, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  April Questions Omnibus 1 Recent questions, answered.

  

  undergraduate degree program at another institution. Shammi wrote, "dear matt, how ... wrote, "I have the same question as Carmel. Should I be putting any school ... applying to a school that I already sent the scores to? (of course MIT isn

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 18, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  December Questions Omnibus 1 Post-decision questions answered.

  

  answer fast from your busy schedule whether MIT accepts extra essays ... a recommendation or secondary school report ... from the same school? 2)Is it true that if I apply to MIT as a major in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 24, 2005
• FAQ / Life and culture

  What other student resources are available?

  MIT offers a myriad of health and well-being support resources for students. See the DoingWell site for more info.
• FAQ / Prepare for MIT

  Does the Khan Academy offer practice SATs?

  Students can prepare for college-entrance exams by going on an online "SAT quest," complete with custom practice problems, instructional videos, and tailored feedback offered by the popular nonprofit learning website
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to (Im)properly Cross Register a step by step guide of our mistakes

  

  Among all the classes that MIT offers, it’s almost impossible to ... actually NOT taking this class at MIT, because *sigh* MIT doesn’t offer ... * MIT offers this super duper cool opportunity to cross-register at 3

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • September 20, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  dont want to write ah

  

  've been busy, but that's not true. i haven't been busy much at all. let ... them. sometimes it was because i was busy doing something else. but most ... meetup. promys was this summer camp i went to back in high school, and i

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 11, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Odd Jobs How non-seniors can occupy their time before and during graduation

  

  cheer for good measure. After busy days of checking people in, giving ... business cards (pictured below), and watching my friend Rachel R. ’16 swat ... since sophomore year of high school. All voluntary, all just experimenting

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • June 8, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So you think you want to be a doctor: Pre-med at MIT

  

  out with McDreamy...there are plenty of Patrick Dempseys in the business ... who wants to go to medical school must make this decision very early on ... schools require that applicants have taken certain classes that they feel

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 19, 2006
• FAQ / Academics and research

  What type of robotics programs does MIT offer?

  Interactive Robots We even offer free online course materials for students
• Blog / Challenges

  The View is Worth It but you have to make the climb yourself to find out

  

  get into graduate school and don't get a full time job offer. I get a full time job offer and don't get into graduate school. I get neither a ... I've been struggling with the grad school vs. industry conundrum for a

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 7, 2020
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  i quit an internship on the second day cut your losses early

  

  said. A day later, I received an offer from the company. It was a little ... wanted to get paid, then offer me less than that—I accepted the offer ... the pay: in high school, I did plenty of miserable jobs. But now I

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 6, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  it’s only a matter of time a post for the deferred

  

  offer my congratulations, and a warm welcome to the MIT community. For the rejected, I offer my condolences, and the best of luck as you apply to other schools. For the deferred, I offer the rest of this post. Posts like this

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 20, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Happily ever after I don't believe in fairy tales, but real life isn't bad either.

  

  I bring greetings from "the little redbrick school up the Charles River" -- although my classes are all at the medical school campus, which ... . Grad school has been treating me well. I've been doing mostly the same

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 21, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  Breathless Why it's so hard to tell college students to ease up a bit.

  

  year, and we’re all always busy, so this is, surprisingly, a rare chance ... ’s been working with minority high school students visiting campus, TA-ing for a class or two, and applying to grad school a year early (because he

  • by Selam G. '18
  • October 16, 2015
• FAQ / Afford

  Does MIT provide any academic or athletic scholarships?

  MIT provides financial aid on the basis of financial need only. We don't offer money based on any measure of merit—academic, athletic ... the Institute as an MIT Scholarship, even though we offer it based