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• Blog / Admissions

  As The Saying About Assumptions Goes… Assume = Ass + U + Me.

  

  't offer only math and science. No, MIT isn't male-dominated ('09 is 47% women). Second, and equally important, admissions personnel should never make assumptions about applicants. At the Harvard Admissions Institute

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 12, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  3 Simple Steps for Making New Friends Guide to Meeting People

  

  you can come and go. You can do anything and you don’t have to do ... shutting down. After checking in and dropping my bags in a sea of other bags ... arrived a bit late, and it seemed like everyone in the room [annotation note

  • by Victor D. '27
  • September 17, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Remaking MITadmissions.org we are psychic vampires, please give us your ideas

  

  We're closing in on Pi Day and still in the midst of making decisions, which I know many of you await with varying degrees of anxiety. But while you're here, and we have your attention, I would like to ask for your

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 9, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  stress.   And there is also a fourth degree, but, well, there's no ... week after week, the cleaning staff will eventually get tired and stop cleaning them. Frozen grapes are really delicious, and keep basically

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

  Class of 2017 By The Numbers with apologies to iron maiden

  

  contributed by MIT Institutional Research to the Common Data Set (i.e. what powers the US News & World Report and other rankings systems). Now, I ... fundamental confusion between our admissions process and the results of that

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 3, 2013
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Not Admitted

  

  history of the Institute. Because of the incredible size and strength of the applicant pool we were unable to offer admission to many, many ... , and that we wish you the very best of luck wherever you choose to

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2015
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Not Admitted

  

  history of the Institute. Because of the incredible size and strength of the applicant pool we were unable to offer admission to many, many ... , and that we wish you the very best of luck wherever you choose to

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2014
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Not Admitted

  

  the most competitive admissions cycle in the history of the Institute. Because of the incredible size and strength of the applicant pool we were unable to offer admission to many, many incredible students whom we would

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2012
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread For Those Not Admitted

  

  the most competitive admissions cycle in the history of the Institute. Because of the incredible size and strength of the applicant pool we were unable to offer admission to many, many incredible students whom we would

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Finding heritage at MIT

  

  heritage is offered and received. There's old half-true legends that get told ... 't enjoy the grade schools I was in to varying degrees, but I never felt entrenched in them - maybe high school a little bit, but only to the degree

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 4, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Numbers are names too What, you don't speak entirely in numbers at your school?

  

  answered for me: And your teacher is right: unless the MIT class offers an ... are not matched in rigor and content by other institutions. I'll add a ... offers and picked the other guy. After all, most of the professors are

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 17, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  23andme happy new year

  

  's degrees in mathematics and computer science, and I will have finished my ... about it. Someone asked me today what my 2023 resolutions were, and I ... want to improve into a few goals. Like, I haven't been eating well and

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 1, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Two Truths and a Lie Because we all definitely love playing icebreakers

  

  MIT has to offer, things can and do go wrong.  It’s a law that holds ... frying pan until you have a Eureka moment where life and the universe ... If you've never played two truths and a lie before, all you have to

  • by Erick P. '17
  • September 17, 2013
• Blog / Announcements

  We are suspending our SAT/ACT requirement for the 2020–2021 application cycle

  

  to COVID-19. As stated in our Making Caring Common pledge — and ... the [annotation note="This means both prospective first-year and ... outcome-driven and applicant-oriented: we don't value scores for their own

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • July 13, 2020
• FAQ / Afford

  Does MIT provide any academic or athletic scholarships?

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

  A (Not At All) Comprehensive Guide to Your First Year what i've learned as an associate advisor

  

  informative and offers a lot of good information on how to search for classes ... income and there's a statistic that states that more than 90% of MIT ... states. I've personally taken trips to New York and New Hampshire with

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 10, 2022
• FAQ / Transfer

  Am I eligible to apply for transfer admission?

  : community colleges, the U.S. military, international universities, and other ... standing at an accredited college, university, technical institute, or ... have completed more than two and a half years (i.e., five terms) of
• Blog / MIT Life

  Expedition New England Travel That is Good for the Soul.

  

  offer. Of course, with P-Sets and all, it is easy to get caught up in your ... isn’t always 100% humid, 100 degrees, and left 100 mosquito bites around ... puzzles that centered around the best attractions, museums, food, and

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • October 26, 2017
• Blog / Athletics

  Beat It, Bump It, Spike It MIT + NCAA: Two acronyms people don't normally expect in the same sentence.

  

  hardcore sports universities, then I had the chance to get it at MIT. Last night, the MIT women's volleyball team defeated Bridgewater State College ... signs, painted chests, but unfortunately no pots and pans. I guess I have

  • by Bryan
  • November 10, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Don’t believe everything that you read

  

  directly from someone who has a friend that goes there and knows the admission council very well. They have a criteria of 5 things, and if you ... , it is, you're half way there. My friend acheived all 5 things, and he

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 8, 2005