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• Apply / First-year applicants

  Getting started

  Regular Action. There is no strategic benefit to applying during either ... both domestic and international applicants, and you can request one in ... then to explore, discover new things, and change your mind. What you
• Discover / About MIT

  A brief history of MIT

  congressman and senator in a state's congressional delegation—to fund colleges and universities, open in their admission to ordinary people, that would ... .'](re)committed it[/annotation] to acting in the public interest in perpetuity.  A new
• Help / Contact

  Via email

  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 ... , then we'll sort out who needs to respond and [annotation note="We get
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  First-year learning communities

  . “We take a spring break trip to kind of get to see that year’s topic in ... , you move to a new city, live with a new roommate, enroll in new classes ... filled with couches and bean bags for students to relax in between classes
• 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
• Help / Contact

  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
• Apply / Preparing for MIT

  Accessing advanced coursework

  commitments.  In these situations, some students prefer to take advanced ... be able to get high school (and sometimes college) credit through these programs, or enroll in them to prepare for standardized exams that assess
• 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
• 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