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    Getting started

    Regular Action. There is no strategic benefit to applying during either ... then to explore, discover new things, and change your mind. What you ... being admitted. Not sure what you want to study yet? Rest assured that
  • Help / Contact

    Via email

    , then we'll sort out who needs to respond and [annotation note="We get ... emails tend to spike especially around the application deadlines, so please be patient if we don't respond in realtime."] get back to you as

  • 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 ... together a little virtual-MIT-choose your own-adventure experience to get you
  • Apply / Transfer applicants

    Returning students

    in getting to know you. This includes the secondary school materials ... Secondary school materials Some students apply to us after an ... experiences of students returning to higher education. At the same time, we
  • Help / Contact

    Visit our office

    . Getting to the Welcome Center The MBTA's Red Line is your best option to get ... [intro]Admissions at MIT Welcome Center[/intro] If you plan to visit ... Center The Welcome Center is open from 9 AM to 4 PM, Monday through Friday
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    First-year learning communities

    process that gets them there.” Once the students work to develop and present their comprehensive plan during the fall semester, they get to ... . “We take a spring break trip to kind of get to see that year’s topic in
  • 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

  • Maps, directions, parking

    Street, Cambridge, MA 02142 Getting to the Welcome Center The MBTA's Red Line is your best option to get to the Welcome Center! Depending on where ... MIT section of our site. The Welcome Center is open from 9 AM to 5 PM

  • Student life at MIT

    likely get 4,500 unique answers from each of our undergrads as to what a ... (and often do) speak at length about our students, but why not get to ... freely from lectures to labs, from dance floors to darkrooms, from study
  • 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

    Accessing advanced coursework

    be able to get high school (and sometimes college) credit through these ... ’s how to get certified: Learn math on Khan Academy: Khan Academy offers ... shareable link to your Schoolhouse certification transcript. [button_link link="https://schoolhouse.world/certification/get-certified?course=Calculus"]Get
  • Apply / Preparing for MIT

    Be yourself!

    your life and your expectations around the narrow goal of trying to get ... If you’re thinking about applying to MIT, you're probably curious, love to learn, and want to work on big problems to make the world a
  • Apply / Understanding the process

    What we look for

    quantity—you don't have to do a million things to get into college. Put your ... Remember that there are many ways to make the world better—we're not looking for applicants to have cured all infectious disease in the world by the
  • Apply / Parents and educators

    Advising your students

    quantity to crowd out interest in the common good. Because when you get to ... ways to define the best, and we think it’s important that young people be ... terms, we want students to pursue the things that interest them with
  • 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 ... Rather than asking you to write one long essay, the MIT application

  • 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 ... get to know MIT Professor Evelyn Wang, who teaches mechanical
  • 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 ... , including: Laboratory for Chocolate Science, a club dedicated to the