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    Visit our office

    . Getting to the Welcome Center The MBTA's Red Line is your best option to get ... there. In addition to being faster, cheaper, and better for the ... [intro]Admissions at MIT Welcome Center[/intro] If you plan to visit
  • 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

  • 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 ... . In addition to being faster, cheaper, and better for the environment
  • 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
  • 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

  • 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
  • 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
  • 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