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    First-year eligibility

    [annotation note="Note that we do not formally require you to have graduated or earned a GED, though you may well choose to!"]concluded[/annotation] their ... . Students who are denied Early Action are not eligible to apply Regular Action
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    Interview

    About the interview At MIT we don't just want to see how you look on ... interviews are not usually formal affairs. You do not have to dress up for your ... network of over 3,500 MIT graduates around the world who volunteer to meet
  • Apply / Understanding the process

    What we look for

    . Remember that there are many ways to make an impact—we're not looking for ... applicants who are not only planning to succeed but who are also not afraid to fail—and who know how to build a support system to keep them afloat
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    Letters of recommendation

    ! (If you're a teacher looking for guides on how to write good letters of ... evaluation. Please refer to the instructions on how to submit recommendations ... Social studies Geography How to submit Your school counselor (or
  • 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 parents

    enough to take the social and intellectual risks that make college really worthwhile. In order to best understand how this process works, we encourage ... , regardless of age, about their applications. We are not able to discuss an
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    First-year learning communities

    to decide how they want to tackle the problem, which allows students to figure out how to work together and what strengths they each bring to the ... . "We try and encourage people to think about learning as not something
  • Apply / Understanding the process

    Our selection process

    How it works After you click the submit button, it's easy to feel ... summaries, along with your entire application, will then go to the selection ... -centered process, not a school- or region-centered process. This means that we do not
  • Apply / Transfer applicants

    Veterans

    forward to supporting you through the admissions process. How to apply ... only to understand how applicants spend their time, but also to gather ... application are not a writing test—they are an opportunity to share your voice
  • Apply / Parents and educators

    Advising your students

    offerings, to feel like they are not going to be strongly considered for ... 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
  • Apply / First-year applicants

    Early vs Regular

    fine to apply during either cycle. We do not have a preference, and there ... there during the early period—you may not simultaneously apply to MIT, and ... Action are not eligible to apply Regular Action.
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    WISE 2025

    12th grade. If you do not have access to these courses through your ... ="We do not require you to have taken AP classes or exams prior to WISE, but ... /department at MIT interest you most? How does this major/department contribute to
  • Help / Contact

    Via mail

    -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 ... find our mailing address below. We'll get back to you much faster via
  • Apply / Preparing for MIT

    Be yourself!

    you are passionate about and what is most important to you—not what you think we want to see. College isn’t a costume party; you’re not supposed ... If you’re thinking about applying to MIT, you're probably curious
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    About MITAdmissions.org

    domain (i.e., not on mit.edu) for historical reasons: when we started our blogs back in 2004, we had to use external hosting and an external domain name in order to do so. Since then, we've built up a following and sense
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    About MIT Admissions

    we do not take for granted and work very hard to keep. Our Mission The ... anyone should be able to understand how to apply to MIT, be able to ... and selection of all undergraduate applicants to the Institute
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    Transcripts

    school does not have a school counselor, your transcript may be submitted ... entity. Counselors can submit transcripts to us in three ways: By ... -party service such as Naviance or SCOIR By sending PDFs to admissions