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    About MITAdmissions.org

    write for a general audience of applicants: don't use too much ... MIT students for real, and share a little bit in their subjective and ... domain (i.e., not on mit.edu) for historical reasons: when we started our
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    Transcripts

    line of the email for easier processing. Please note: If you send us a ... We require an official transcript sent by a school counselor or representative. This applies for high school and college transcripts. If your
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    Academic preparation

    March 31 for fall entry. Superscoring If a student takes the same test ... transfer students take a variety of mathematics and science courses before ... areas. To prepare for MIT’s academic program, we recommend that transfer
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    Returning students

    need to evaluate students against a common baseline of preparation for a rigorous MIT education. Even though you may have been away from school for a ... that non-traditional applicants take some courses at a community college
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    The transfer application

    fee presents a hardship for you and your family, you may request a fee ... Application: The application for spring entry is due October 15, 2026. The application for fall entry is due March 1, 2027. Only U.S. citizens and U
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    U.S. Military Veterans

    more. Other preparation resources For MIT, having a strong foundation in ... nearly eight years. SVS serves as a direct point of contact for students ... MIT has a long history of educating U.S. military veterans, both
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    Summer programs

    ) Research Science Institute (RSI) is a program of the Center for Excellence in ... should do to prepare for applying to MIT, and our answer is always to spend ... . Similar to the way we look at a student’s extracurricular activities, there
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    Inventions & innovations

    rather than DNA, for use as a rapid, inexpensive, highly sensitive ... plane over a sustained, steady flight, thus eliminating the need for ... even entire industries. MIT InnovationHQ (iHQ) is a hub for MIT
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    Deadlines & requirements

    a math or science teacher and one from a humanities, social science ... : SAT or ACT. We strongly recommend English proficiency exams for certain non ... recommendation—one from a math or science teacher and one from a humanities, social
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    First-year eligibility

    The first-year application is intended for students who have ... earned a GED, though you may well choose to!"]concluded[/annotation] their secondary education and wish to pursue a bachelor's degree as a full
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    Undergraduate research

    research, for pay or for credit, during their undergraduate years.[/intro] In 1969, Margaret MacVicar, then a 26-year-old MIT professor (and ... as coauthors on them. Every scientist was once a novice: UROP gives
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    Clubs & activities

    , including: Laboratory for Chocolate Science, a club dedicated to the ... , or about 1 for every 10 undergraduates. If you don't find an existing ... organizations, activism groups, and many more including a newspaper, a debate team
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    Independent Activities Period

    [intro]Independent Activities Period (IAP) is a four-week period in ... ,[/annotation] IAP has grown to be a unique feature of the MIT education, offering ... additional tuition or room fees during IAP. For more detailed information

  • Online info sessions

    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 ... together a little virtual-MIT-choose your own-adventure experience to get you
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    QuestBridge

    MIT is proud to be a QuestBridge partner About QuestBridge QuestBridge (QB) helps talented, low-income students prepare for the college application process and apply for four-year scholarships at top U.S. schools
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    Other videos

    More than 40 MIT[annotation note="That's jargon for Departments, Labs ... ."]DLCs[/annotation]have a YouTube channel where they post videos about teaching, research, and people. It's hard to narrow down thousands of videos, but here are a few of
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    Academic foundations

    taken [annotation note="For many students, a math sequence might include ... -calculus, which are designed to lay the groundwork for a calculus course that ... builds a foundation for our [annotation note="While at MIT, all students
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    First-year learning communities

    makes for a class load of subjects that not only teaches students the ... a whole lot of change happening at once. In the span of a few weeks, you move to a new city, live with a new roommate, enroll in new classes

  • infinite MIT

    achievements. We are emphatically not looking for a batch of identical perfect climbers; we are looking for a richly varied team of capable people who will ... interested in learning more about Latino culture. The LCC provides a space for