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    The MIT community

    sense of home. Our undergraduates In any given year there are ~4 ... like they had no other, MIT has one of the oldest LGBTQ+ student groups in ... anything we could tell you would fail to capture it. The next best thing you

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    Academic preparation

    applying, taking full advantage of their institution’s offerings in these ... applicants generally have a GPA of 3.5 or above, and mostly A's in mathematics ... academic record doesn't appear to merit credit in a certain subject, you may
  • Apply / First-year applicants

    Creative portfolios

    is designed for students who would like their work to be reviewed by ... department. Only advanced performers who are interested in continuing performance and/or study in music and theater arts while at MIT should consider
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    WISE 2025

    Weekend Immersion in Science & Engineering program is completely free ... , including students who come from low socioeconomic means, live in a rural area, or might be the first in their family to attend college. Please note

  • Explore MIT on your own

    Dianna Cowern ’11, aka Physics Girl) 24 Things I Learned in My First ... —you’ll find a link to the next stop in this virtual ... on our site, and you'll find those pages linked in the headers. When in
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    Athletics & recreation

    [intro]We have the largest Division III athletics program in the ... many more participate in club and intramural sports, as well as general ... teams, we offer the largest Division III program in the nation, in
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    Letters of recommendation

    request recommendations in your MIT application portal. You can request ... recommend sending the request as soon as you have determined who you would ... who has taught you in an academic class in high school. Ideally, this
  • Discover / About MIT

    Inventions & innovations

    people in everyday life.[/intro] For MIT's 150th anniversary, the Boston ... -delivering channels that release medicine in response to changes in skin temperature and ... detection of gravitational waves reaching the Earth (in collaboration with
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    February Updates & Notes Form

    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 ... -trimester grades. Students who have already graduated simply select the "I'm not
  • Discover / The MIT education

    Maker education

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

    applying to an American school like MIT works. Some of the information in ... make sure to check with other schools before applying. In addition to ...  and local advising centers. Am I international? For the purposes of the

  • infinite MIT

    or Two: In which I ramble about how lucky I am to have such awesome ... the most talented students in the world through need-blind admissions ... disadvantaged in the undergraduate admissions process because of their financial

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    licensing our content under different terms (i.e. for use in a commercial ...  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
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    QuestBridge

    aid application. Non-matched finalists are contacted in December with ... participating in the National College Match Finalists ranking MIT If you are a ... to MIT directly. In addition to the QB application, you will also need
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    MIT’s educational philosophy

    -motivated and engaged participants in a dynamic community of learners. We combine ... principles Since the first classes were offered in a storage warehouse in ... offered, of course!"]required to learn French and German[/annotation] in

  • Housing and residence life

    experience, and all first-year students live in one of our 10 on ... want to live in, giving students the chance to live in a place that feels ... project and is anticipated to reopen in fall 2025.']in operation
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    Transfer credit & advanced standing

    -secondary classes while they’re still in high school. Many of these programs offer ... 're still in high school, you're considered a first-year applicant regardless ... nor recklessly advanced—in your MIT coursework. Transfer credit Most