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• Apply / Parents and educators

  How to write good letters of recommendation

  . Try to address the following questions in your evaluation: What is ... to other subjects. David's work in this area has been so original and ... to professionals in other parts of the country. This is a phenomenal
• Apply / Transfer applicants

  Returning students

  in getting to know you. This includes the secondary school materials ... or in a non-degree program to brush up on their classroom experience ... Secondary school materials Some students apply to us after an
• Apply / Preparing for MIT

  Be yourself!

  your recommenders write—to better understand you and your achievements in ... your life and your expectations around the narrow goal of trying to get ... : In simple terms, we want students to pursue the things that interest
• Apply / Understanding the process

  What we look for

  for applicants to have cured all infectious disease in the world by the ... MIT are designed to be worked on in groups, and cross-department labs ... are also not afraid to fail. When people take risks in life, they learn
• Apply / Parents and educators

  Advising your students

  quantity to crowd out interest in the common good. Because when you get to ... educationally sound for them to best prepare them to succeed in college and beyond. We want students to challenge themselves appropriately in the areas
• Apply / First-year applicants

  Essays, activities & academics

  get to know you. Remember that this is not a writing test. Be honest, be ... trying to get a clear picture of your academic preparation by subject area ... -reported information (in order to avoid accidental misrepresentation, it might help to

• Explore MIT on your own

  [intro]You don't have to travel to Cambridge to get a feel for MIT ... from home. Consider this your starting point as you get to know MIT ... —you’ll find a link to the next stop in this virtual

• Student life at MIT

  likely get 4,500 unique answers from each of our undergrads as to what a “day in the life of an MIT student” looks like for them—and that's part ... (and often do) speak at length about our students, but why not get to
• Help / Contact

  Via mail

  find our mailing address below. We'll get back to you much faster via ... -related documents to us for some reason—or if you would like to mail us something not related to an application—you can send it to: Massachusetts Institute of

• 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 so special. Before you go, we have some final resources for you to take
• Apply / Preparing for MIT

  Extracurricular activities

  Some students feel so much pressure to get into the “right” college that they want to make sure they do everything “right”—down to their extracurricular or co-curricular activities.  On our application, we ask for up to
• Apply / Preparing for MIT

  Transfer credit & advanced standing

  , you get to keep your grade on the ASE as your grade in the class; if you ... Many students who apply to MIT are passionate about learning and find ways to challenge themselves academically. Some applicants seek out dual
• Discover / Life and culture

  Clubs & activities

  club or organization to match your interests, it's easy to start your own, and get together with your friends to nerd out however your heart ... a venue in which to learn and practice (safe) LED prop and fire
• Apply / Preparing for MIT

  Summer programs

  any high school student can come to campus to take courses and live in ... We often get asked if there are particular summer programs students should do to prepare for applying to MIT, and our answer is always to spend
• Apply / Transfer applicants

  Veterans

  in advanced math and science both improves your odds of getting into ... eligible for benefits that can significantly aid in your costs to attend MIT ... with Warrior-Scholar Project to offer a STEM bootcamp on campus. In 2019
• Apply / First-year applicants

  February Updates & Notes Form

  . Midyear grades Please be sure to get your official midyear grades from your ... deferred in Early Action, and all students who applied for Regular Action ... application portal in mid-January and should be completed as soon as possible
• Discover / The MIT education

  Maker education

  former you get from learning in the classroom, and the latter from making ... Makerspace, in the works In addition to our research opportunities ... experiential programs give you training in modern means of manufacture: what has
• Apply / First-year applicants

  Biographical & personal information

  option later in the application. Addresses We want to know your home ... if you want us to use your preferred name in all official print and ... bit of information about the people you consider to be your parents in
• Discover / About MIT

  Inventions & innovations

  -delivering channels that release medicine in response to changes in skin temperature and ... resources to help them get started on entrepreneurial projects of their own ... discoveries of basic research to products and infrastructure used by ordinary
• Discover / The MIT education

  The first year

  ) interests in order to develop their plans for further study. Before we get to ... students time to adjust to factors like increased workloads and variations in ... design principles and educational theory in order to understand how and why