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  • Apply / Understanding the process

    What we look for

    you’re comfortable taking initiative to pursue exciting opportunities ... fail—and who know how to build a support system to keep them afloat ... key components: Alignment with MIT's mission MIT’s mission is to use
  • Discover / Life and culture

    The MIT community

    anything we could tell you would fail to capture it. The next best thing you ... Professor Emeritus Jay Keyser once observed that "MIT is hard to get into, and even harder to leave."[/intro] The people at MIT The best asset of MIT
  • Apply / Parents and educators

    For parents

    the admissions process as a rite of passage—a challenging initiation ... enough to take the social and intellectual risks that make college really worthwhile. In order to best understand how this process works, we encourage
  • Discover / The MIT education

    Global education

    [intro] A majority of MIT students travel to study, research, work ... can expect to have at least one international experience with research ... Initiatives (MISTI) is MIT’s flagship international education program. Every
  • Discover / The MIT education

    MIT’s educational philosophy

    Institute should be to encourage initiative, to promote the spirit of free and ... offered, of course!"]required to learn French and German[/annotation] in order to graduate. However, the MIT education has always been based on
  • Apply / Parents and educators

    For home educators

    , based on successful applicants we have admitted in the past. Initiative ... having taken initiative, showing an entrepreneurial spirit, and making the ... less constrained educational environment to take on exciting projects, go
  • Discover / The MIT education

    Cross-registration

    [intro]In addition to the thousands of courses already offered by the ... : “the Institute should encourage initiative, promote the spirit of free ... .[/annotation] To that end, we have established strong ties with nearby institutions

  • Explore MIT on your own

    [intro]You don't have to travel to Cambridge to get a feel for MIT ... new things—whether on campus or off—there's more than enough to explore from home. Consider this your starting point as you get to know MIT
  • Discover / Life and culture

    Housing at MIT

    the MIT Housing website. Choosing where to live All incoming first-year students are sent the MIT Guide to Residences. The Guide includes data about ... where you want to live, which you submit to MIT Housing. All first
  • About

    About MIT Admissions

    in our work, and try to support initiatives and affirm principles that ... and selection of all undergraduate applicants to the Institute ... aspire to attend it. As one of our colleagues once wrote, we believe that

  • infinite MIT

    and initiatives on campus aiming to foster equity, intersectionality ... [intro]We're so glad you've chosen to learn more about us![/intro] tl ... like to be a student here. There are videos to watch, blogs to read
  • Afford / Cost & affordability

    How to apply for aid

    paint a detailed picture of what kind of aid you’ll need to be able to attend MIT affordably. Three steps to apply for aid. CSS Profile: a tool provided by the College Board that we use to determine if you qualify for a
  • Apply / Preparing for MIT

    Be yourself!

    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 better place. It can be tricky to sum up all that you’re passionate about
  • Apply / First-year applicants

    QuestBridge

    MIT is proud to be a QuestBridge partner About QuestBridge Quest ... think they may be eligible, to learn more about QuestBridge and consider ... -achieving, high-school seniors, regardless of citizenship, to apply to QB partner

  • 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 / Parents and educators

    Advising your students

    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 energy and enthusiasm. We want students to make decisions that are
  • 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 / Transfer applicants

    Returning students

    Secondary school materials Some students apply to us after an ... experiences of students returning to higher education. At the same time, we need to evaluate students against a common baseline of preparation for a
  • Apply / Transfer applicants

    Veterans

    their service, and we are proud to support a community of veterans on ... forward to supporting you through the admissions process. How to apply ... prospective students. While most veterans are eligible to apply for transfer