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What should I do if I’m deferred?
your application was already strong enough to make you a contender in the Regular Action round. Let your application stand. Simply sending in
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Blog / Academics & Research
LOOK AT THIS. LOOK AT IT.
I logged into WebSIS to check my term grades and saw the following at the bottom of the page: SUCCESS AT LAST. (Well, I still have one grade that isn't in. Whatever. I'M DONE, Y'ALL.) -
Blog / Admissions
Selection = Finished Wow.
the 17th (but until I confirm that, it's not set in stone - after the EA mailing I want to be 100% certain before I say "in the mail!"). I promise to ... people. This seems to be the case every year. You'd think I'd get used to -
Blog / Announcements
The First-Year Application for the MIT Class of 2025 is now live
can describe, in 250 words or fewer, any extenuating circumstances that ... I'm writing to announce that the application for first-year undergraduate admission to MIT for the aspiring Class of 2025 is now live. You can -
Blog / Admissions
MIT Application now available Apply now at MyMIT.
Happy September! You can now log onto MyMIT to access the application ... us will be scanned. I recommend that you consider things like staples and binding, and ability to be viewed in a 2-D environment, before -
Blog / Admissions
Match Game
applications. Unfortunately, I missed another classic IAP event last night: the ... .70/2.007 robotics competition, 6.270 throws in an interesting twist: the robots must be autonomous. The competition is so popular, they hold it in the 1200 -
FAQ / International applicants
Am I domestic or international if I hold dual citizenship?
international in our application process. We don't have any preference as to which -
Blog / About Decisions
CPW, making a decision, and saying yes/no The clock to May 1 is ticking.
approaching, one week from Friday. For those of you who were there, I hope you enjoyed CPW as much as I did. It was great to meet many of you at the "Meet ... bloggers via hidden messages in the comments was a joke). For those of you -
Blog / Admissions
Meet the Admissions Officers: Mari McQuaid Name: Mari McQuaid; Job title: Assistant Director of Admissions; Hometown: Verona, NJ
time in Cambridge where I can always find: interesting people who share ... University for two years and then my degree from Harvard Extension in Art History Favorite things about MIT: Personally, I love all the stereotypical -
Blog / Personal Travel
Leaving home…
years to prepare for that. But I suppose you could say that in all of the ... resilient. I snapped out of pondering in a couple of minutes and quickly ... [I'm at MIT now, but wrote this entry earlier today while still -
Blog / How to Human
oh, the places you’ll go
understanding. In that class, every time I looked up at that quote, I felt my ... to different far away lands to do great things. In the moment, I didn ... and made a notes document of everything I wanted to accomplish in high -
Blog / Academics & Research
Summer Classes (or, Gettin’ Classy) I made a series of Biology videos about blood and learned about digital education!
This summer, I was enrolled in one of the five summer@future classes ... entertaining my face is. But, I guess you can play along for yourself, if you ... 're like me (interested in both digital education/media and biology), I -
Blog / MIT History & Culture
The Punt Puzzle A collaborative affair
dispatched aggregate of users worldwide, I can easily declare that the entire ... an MIT student performs, one that usually leads to statements like, “I ... Saw Franchise to baking cookies to video games—and in my case, to -
Blog / MIT Life
Swiss Miss "The archangel Michael descends riding a triceratops."
to #2, and it only went to #94 in Japan. And I am SO SICK OF HEARING IT ... a train in Switzerland. I was worried about finding a replacement ... that in mind, I looked up the word for "umbrella" in Google translator -
Blog / Classes
2.009: the product engineering process the best class at mit
. Your experience in 2.009 can depend a lot on your team, so I feel super ... covered in this liveblog by Janet and Kayode, and you can watch the ... thinking, How in the world did they make that in a semester? Now I know -
Blog / About Decisions
On schools & context
I've said in the past, the large majority of our applicants are highly ... A while back, I asked for parent questions and received exactly one, which I haven't yet answered. It was: "It would be good if you could talk -
Blog / Admissions
Doogie Howser, et al.
successful college/MIT student? I'll be happy to answer any questions left in ... blindfolded? Can they go a whole night speaking only in palindromes? These ... "special case" questions I get is about younger students looking to apply -
Blog / Academics & Research
Sunsets Academics at the other Cambridge.
. Depending on your subject and which year you're in, you can have anywhere from ... general feeling of panic. I, myself, only got about 5-6 hours of sleep each day last week. This is non-trivial because I like to, and usually do -
Blog / Academics & Research
Nobody’s Got No Class! I was browsing through the MIT Course Catalog, and thought these classes looked pretty thought-provoking.
cognitive framework within which we can reason about events and states in the ... (It's from "Chicago," people) I was browsing through the MIT Course Catalog, and thought these classes looked pretty thought-provoking. (I stuck -
Blog / MIT Life
Expedition New England Travel That is Good for the Soul.
simply enjoy life. For those who don’t l know, I come from a town in ... personal book challenge that I’ll blog about in a few weeks!) snacks, my ... Portland, and I exited the train in a nervous hurry thinking I was going to