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  • 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
  • Discover / Life and culture

    Housing at MIT

    the MIT Housing website. Choosing where to live All incoming first ... project and is anticipated to reopen in fall 2025.']in operation ... In addition to its residence halls, MIT recognizes 26 fraternities, 10
  • Discover / About MIT

    A brief history of MIT

    .'](re)committed it[/annotation] to acting in the public interest in perpetuity.  A new ... [intro]In 1865, the founding of MIT established a new kind of ... envisioned a new education to unify mens et manus, mind and hand, theory and
  • Apply / Preparing for MIT

    Summer programs

    any high school student can come to campus to take courses and live in ... in Colorado, Georgia, Indiana, New Mexico, North Carolina, Oklahoma ... We often get asked if there are particular summer programs students
  • Apply / Preparing for MIT

    STEM programs

    these activities. We don't expect or require applicants to participate in ... students PRIMES-USA, a free, year-long research program in math open to ... travel to) MIT's campus in Cambridge, MA: Educational Studies Program
  • Policies

     central accessibility website where you can find all of MIT's accessibility resources in ... .org is licensed under Creative Commons BY-NC-SA. In short, you are free to ... community.” Our goal in forming the student body might simply be to select
  • 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
  • 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
  • Schedule your campus visit

    ="https://apply.mitadmissions.org/portal/visitmit"]Register[/button_link] In-person group tours If you would like to bring a group of 6–50 people ... In-person info sessions and tours We offer two types of campus visits ... reservation for a session, we will not be able to accommodate you. [button
  • 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 / 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
  • 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 / Parents and educators

    For home educators

    in depth in topics that excite them, create new opportunities for ...  Stanford OHS. Transcripts of these courses, in addition to an evaluation of the ... .[/intro] Over the past decade, we have seen a surge in homeschooled applicants
  • 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