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  section of their application. Our preference is for counselors to use our ... line of the email for easier processing. Please note: If you send us a copy of your transcript while we are waiting for your official transcript
• Apply / Understanding the process

  Our selection process

  committee, where multiple groups of different admissions staff and faculty ... decision is correct in the context of the overall applicant pool, and that no ... has any chance of swaying a decision unfairly. Our process is a student
• Apply / Preparing for MIT

  Extracurricular activities

  about who you are and how you spend your time outside of schoolwork ... outside of the classroom, choose your activities because they delight

• Next steps

  [intro]You made it to the end of our virtual visit experience! We hope it helped you get to know MIT and the students that make this place ... advantage of.[/intro] Tour campus, virtually Follow blogger CJ Q. ’23 as he
• Apply / First-year applicants

  QuestBridge

  -achieving, high-school seniors, regardless of citizenship, to apply to QB partner ... -year Match Scholarship that covers the full cost of attendance, with no parent ... apply. Recommendations: If neither of your QuestBridge recommendations

• MIT visits you

  them as well! Check out the list of where we're headed below, and we ... application process. There is a Q&A period at the end of session as well

• Maps, directions, parking

  MIT section of our site. The Welcome Center is open from 9 AM to 5 PM ... . Cambridge traffic is usually awful, the layout of the roads is confusing, and
• Help / Contact

  Visit our office

  station. You can learn more in the Visit MIT section of our site. Welcome ... usually awful, the layout of the roads is confusing, and, although there is
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  Biographical & personal information

  resources on campus. Citizenship Please select the country of your primary ... bit of information about the people you consider to be your parents in ... or guardians, as well as other members of your household like siblings.

• Online info sessions

  [intro]There are many ways to get to know us, right from the comfort of your own home![/intro] Join us for an online session Sign up to see if MIT might be right for you. [button_link link
• Apply / First-year applicants

  Early vs Regular

  MIT has two application cycles: Early Action (EA) and Regular Action (RA). What's the difference? Only the dates of the deadlines! It is fine to apply during either cycle. We do not have a preference, and there
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Random Hall ‘13s Life plans, advice, and stories from last year’s Random Hall graduates.

  

  those opportunities unfold in different directions to varying degrees of ... . What sort of depth does this place offer in those academic areas? Think ... year ago, and it was bizarre again this past summer, to see some of my

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 20, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  All I Ever Really Needed to Know I Learned in Kindergarten (and at MIT)

  

  of an undergraduate college degree. My friend, who I love very dearly ... difficult to enjoy a higher quality of life without a diploma), and MIT is not ... this one. :)] The other day I was hanging out with one of my best

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • June 24, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  50 Reflections on 50 Things thinking back on The Blogfather's wisdom in my senior year

  

  Dear Class of 2022, 12 years ago, Ben Jones, aka The Blogfather, shared 50 pieces of wisdom with the Class of 2010, which became 50 Things, the most-read blog on MIT Admissions. As a member of the Class of 2018

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 20, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Axes of Confusion ????

  

  , one for the minimum amount of classes we need to finish the 21E degree ... a double major because, well, it equates to the units of one major ... offered in it). And our Engineering field is Course 6, or Computer Science

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • June 21, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  150 years of MIT course catalogs the mit history you want to know

  

  courses: organization of departments and schools, course numbers, and degree ... that has a table resembling our modern degree charts: a table of the ... department. With this came the concept of each class being offered by a certain

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 15, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Someone saved my life tonight Survived my squalor, like a butterfly.

  

  unmanageable. A sign of first degree squalor could be that you might be ... out of hand. Signs that you have reached second degree would include ... in squalor, but Second Degree Squalor. Most times when people laugh I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 12, 2006
• Blog / Advice

  The Art of Juggling please take away my balls

  

  probably won't make it, so you have to assign degrees of importance. Drop the ... summer, I'm usually a ball of anxious energy just waiting to be released ... string is everywhere, splayed out in front of me like...like...well, I was

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 23, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  turn out the lights always the last one to say goodbye

  

  In that moment, I felt that my conception of [Next House] finally ... filled with memories too large to contain any of us. It is the end of my ... of my junior year, and I am twenty. There are so many stories I want

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • May 31, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “So what are you majoring in?” *sweats nervously*

  

  A lot of different people have been asking me about my prospective major. And for these gracious inquirers, I have a lot of different answers ... question. This place certainly has no shortage of learned

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • April 4, 2015