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  • Apply / Preparing for MIT

    Transfer credit & advanced standing

    Advanced Standing Exam, or ASE, to test out of a course.  An ASE is ... official scores and/or certifications to the Office of the First Year, and ... policies on transfer credit.  Broadly speaking, there are three ways to earn
  • Apply / First-year applicants

    First-year eligibility

    [annotation note="Note that we do not formally require you to have graduated or ... -time university student. Students may apply during or after their final year of ... ineligible for either first-year or transfer admission, or simply prefer to
  • Discover / Life and culture

    Athletics & recreation

    'Brien, and Barry fields, which offer acres of on-campus athletics fields for ... addition to a Division I crew program. MIT is highly competitive within its NEWMAC conference. It is possible to be a student and athlete at MIT
  • Apply / First-year applicants

    Getting started

    1 if you're applying Early Action, or January 6 if you're applying Regular Action. There is no strategic benefit to applying during either ... data to predict anything even if we wanted to. Moral of the story
  • Discover / Life and culture

    The MIT community

    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 ... try to put together the best team of students to go through MIT together
  • Apply / Understanding the process

    Our selection process

    decision is correct in the context of the overall applicant pool, and that no ... has any chance of swaying a decision unfairly. Our process is a student ... region to compare you against each other; each applicant stands on their
  • Apply / Understanding the process

    Our mission

    innovators of our global society. We uphold a commitment to meritocracy and ... Our work at MIT Admissions is both bound and inspired by MIT's longstanding commitment to the public interest, a theory we put into practice
  • Apply / First-year applicants

    Interview

    About the interview At MIT we don't just want to see how you look on ... network of over 3,500 MIT graduates around the world who volunteer to meet ... typically use the email address you provided on your application to contact
  • Discover / The MIT education

    The first year

    by choosing among a variety of ways to complete core subjects and ... of having taken it; in the second term, students earn an A, B, C, or no ... designate up to 48 units to be graded on a pass/no record basis after their
  • Discover / The MIT education

    General Institute Requirements

    specializing in your course(s) of study. It is possible to earn advanced placement or advanced standing in the GIRs. The important thing to know is ... , and social sciences, including three to four in a concentration of your
  • Afford / Cost & affordability

    How to apply for aid

    deadlines below depend on whether you are applying to MIT Early or Regular ... paint a detailed picture of what kind of aid you’ll need to be able to ... Applications for financial aid are processed by our office of Student
  • Discover / The MIT education

    Undergraduate research

    you a point of entry to begin work that can last a lifetime. Hands-on ...  credit. How to UROP You may apply for advertised UROP positions or propose your ... [intro]One of the earliest programs of its kind in the United States
  • Apply / Parents and educators

    Advising your students

    think they have to. We don’t want students to take advanced classes out of ... siblings or working 20-30 hours a week to support their family), or who come ... others is the foundation of our culture and community. As such, we
  • 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 / Understanding the process

    Admissions statistics

    . Holistic admissions It is important to understand that these numbers do not ... most important thing to remember is that at MIT we admit people, not ... years ago, we began publishing our own admissions statistics, which went
  • Apply / First-year applicants

    Deadlines & requirements

    The application The first-year application is closed in the MIT application portal. Please note: You’re only allowed to apply once per entry ... , activities, academics, etc. November 1 Two letters of recommendation—one from