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    Advising your students

    that you want what is best for your students. However, there are many ... terms, we want students to pursue the things that interest them with ... educationally sound for them to best prepare them to succeed in college and beyond
  • Apply / Parents and educators

    For school counselors

    prepared to speak with you and answer your questions.[/intro] Call us We are ... schools as well as share with you about MIT and our admissions process. You ... for you as well as two teachers at your school to write thoughtful
  • Discover / Life and culture

    Housing at MIT

    for fun. Based on these factors, you develop ranked preferences about ... . You choose where you live, and each living group is a community with its own distinct culture and traditions. MIT housing is guaranteed for your
  • Apply / Parents and educators

    For home educators

    . Successful homeschooled applicants We do not have separate requirements for ... . However, we do have some qualities we look for in for homeschooled students ... One quality that we look for in all of our applicants is evidence of
  • Apply / Understanding the process

    What we look for

    selection process. Here are the key components: Alignment with MIT's mission ... for applicants to have cured all infectious disease in the world by the ... Institute. Many of the problem sets (our affectionate term for homework) at
  • Apply / First-year applicants

    Interview

    , we offer an interview with a member of the MIT Educational Council, a ... with applicants in their home area. Interviews are held in person ... upon with your EC. How After you submit your application, you may be
  • Afford / Cost & affordability

    How to apply for aid

    Applications for financial aid are processed by our office of Student ... 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 / First-year applicants

    DACA & undocumented applicants

    president, Rafael Reif, wrote an editorial in the Boston Globe arguing for the ... As part of our mission to uphold meritocracy and fair access for ... note='A term for students who have received Deferred Action for Childhood
  • Discover / The MIT education

    Undergraduate research

    thousands of projects each year with 95% of MIT graduating seniors conducting research, for pay or for credit, during their undergraduate years ... alumna), established UROP with funding from the inventor Edwin Land. Since

  • Housing and residence life

    [annotation note='East Campus residence hall is closed for a two-year renovation ... arrangements, and prices. Some are more conventional—with double rooms and dining ... that live in the residence hall!), along with Graduate Resident Tutors
  • Discover / The MIT education

    Global education

    can expect to have at least one international experience with research ... more than 40 countries, with most opportunities fully funded by MIT ... students with hands-on projects in leading international companies, schools
  • Apply / Preparing for MIT

    Be yourself!

    connection with wherever they call home. We are emphatically not looking for ... inspire each other. With all that in mind, preparing yourself for MIT means ... all the information you share with us—your coursework, your essays, what
  • Discover / Learn more

    Newsletters

    [intro]Would you like to hear from us every once in a while?[/intro] Then you should sign up for our MIT Admissions monthly newsletter (prospective undergraduates only please). It's from us(!), and contains

  • Clubs, activities, and athletics

    to share that excitement with.[/intro] Student activities Sure, there ... might expect. But MIT students also run a Laboratory for Chocolate Science, organize large-scale hackathons, and host educational programs for local
  • Apply / First-year applicants

    Essays, activities & academics

    open, be authentic—this is your opportunity to connect with us. You ... —you're doing it wrong. Our questions For the 2024–2025 application, we're asking ... of you. Tell us about something you do simply for the pleasure of it
  • Discover / Life and culture

    Arts & music

    introductory courses for all MIT students. With over 25 majors, minors, and ... the arts include the Open Documentary Lab, the Center for Art, Science & Technology, and cross-registration with Massachusetts College of
  • Discover / About MIT

    A brief history of MIT

    with a heartfelt belief: that the American educational system of the 19th ... applied to the Massachusetts legislature for "an Act of Incorporation of the ... , which allowed states to sell up to 30,000 acres of public land—for each