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    Visit our office

    : One of our amazing students will take you on a tour of their favorite ... answer on our website, you can email us at [email protected] or call 1 ... best option to get to the Welcome Center! Depending on where you are
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    Veterans

    their service, and we are proud to support a community of veterans on ... community college or another four-year college) to brush up on their academics ... —especially calculus, the building block for many of our courses—is essential to a
  • Discover / About MIT

    A brief history of MIT

    Massachusetts Institute of Technology," which was to include a museum, a society ... remain open to members of the public. The charter was granted on April 10, 1861, on the eve of the Civil War, which delayed classes until 1865. In

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    of our amazing students will take you on a tour of their favorite ... answer on our website, you can email us at [email protected] or call 1 ... your best option to get here! Depending on where you are coming from, you
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    Books about MIT

    MIT hacks, from the police car on the Great Dome to the abduction of the ... planet" —  on the eastern end of the MIT campus We linked these books to ... , and impact on the world. Here are some of our favorites: A Widening
  • Discover / Life and culture

    Hacks, tomfoolery & pranks

    stealthily execute campus pranks according to an informal code of ethics. These ethics, loosely stated, assert that hacks must do no damage to property or any person, must be safe, and must provide joy or amusement to those who
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    The transfer application

    number, which is located on the right-hand side of the application portal. ... recommendation: We recommend that one letter of recommendation come from a math or ... . Remaining documents should be mailed to: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Apply / Understanding the process

    What we look for

    key components: Alignment with MIT's mission MIT’s mission is to use science, technology, and other areas of scholarship to make the world better ... thousands of examples. And no matter what you study at MIT, from economics to
  • Discover / Life and culture

    Eating at MIT

    learn to do eventually. There is no right or wrong answer overall, just a ... setting. [/intro] Everyone prefers to eat differently: alone or together, made or served, vegan or paleo, and so on. So, just like in our
  • Apply / First-year applicants

    QuestBridge

    application regardless of how you choose to rank colleges, or if you rank none ... MIT is proud to be a QuestBridge partner About QuestBridge Quest ... -achieving, high-school seniors, regardless of citizenship, to apply to QB partner
  • Apply / Preparing for MIT

    Accessing advanced coursework

    MIT, or if you want to pursue [annotation note='To be clear, we do not expect students do anything above and beyond what is required to ... that you take outside of your high school on your MIT application.  Here
  • Discover / The MIT education

    Maker education

    [intro]MIT's dozens of makerspaces, dedicated hands-on classes, and ... things, and from trying to make them work. This "maker education" is at ... which shops to use, provides training and safety guides, and securely
  • Discover / About MIT

    Life after MIT

    adventure novel, which is how we think life ought to be. If you want to ... [intro]As hard as it might be to imagine sometimes, there is life ... advising at MIT is formally coordinated by the office of Career Advising &
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    First-year class profile

    , but is higher than zero, which is indicated by <1%."]rounded to the ... composition of the Class of 2029 according to the [annotation note='The IPEDS ... institutions to report data on legal sex only, replacing “gender” with “sex
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    About MITAdmissions.org

    only a few months old and restricted to a handful of colleges, which ... About MITAdmissions.org MITAdmissions.org is the official website of MIT's Office of Undergraduate Admissions. We are located on our own
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    Global education

    [intro] A majority of MIT students travel to study, research, work ... that offers opportunities to study for the semester, year, or summer at a ... Social Innovation Challenge, which offers up to $20,000 in grant funding to
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    WISE 2025

    words or fewer) Which MIT major/department is most interesting to you ... able to find one on your school’s website or in a trusted database ... ; please draft your responses on a separate page or document. How to apply in
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    About MIT Admissions

    act ethically, on behalf of our institution and the public we serve. To ... and selection of all undergraduate applicants to the Institute ... , tradition, and integrity of our work on behalf of the Institute and those who