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  • Apply / Understanding the process

    Our selection process

    admissions officers, who will summarize it for the Admissions Committee. These summaries, along with your entire application, will then go to the selection ... one individual's biases, preferences, or familiarity with a given case
  • Discover / Life and culture

    Clubs & activities

    , or about 1 for every 10 undergraduates. If you don't find an existing ... , and get together with your friends to nerd out however your heart ... , including: Laboratory for Chocolate Science, a club dedicated to the
  • Apply / Understanding the process

    Admissions statistics

    care deeply about factors like your match with MIT. Qualitative ... numbers. With that in mind, here are some numbers about the people we admit. Admissions statistics for the Class of 2029 General First-year applications
  • Discover / Life and culture

    The MIT community

    search the world for students who we think will be a good fit at MIT, and ... . On your journey, we will surround you with brilliant faculty, helpful ... economic mobility index of its peer schools. Long a home for those who felt
  • Discover / Life and culture

    Eating at MIT

    [intro]You can choose to join a conventional meal plan with access to dining halls, or cook for yourself (and often, your friends) in a community ... meal plan and eat at any dining hall, or you may choose to cook for
  • Apply / Preparing for MIT

    Academic foundations

    better set up for success in the corresponding GIRs. As with calculus, if ... to you with names like calculus, physics, biology, or chemistry—or, for ... This section will focus on academic preparation for first
  • Apply / First-year applicants

    Transcripts

    representative. This applies for high school and college transcripts. If your ... application portal along with the Secondary School Report. To do this ... section of their application. Our preference is for counselors to use our
  • Apply / First-year applicants

    Early vs Regular

    applicants with more options so they can choose which works best for them. Rules and restrictions Early Action is an option for all applicants ... cycles for two reasons: 1) it helps us spread our work out over a longer
  • Apply / Transfer applicants

    Transfer eligibility

    The transfer application is intended for students who have finished ... spring term, you cannot reapply for the fall term of the same calendar year. (For example, if you apply for the spring 2026 term, you cannot also
  • Apply / First-year applicants

    International applicants

    , you may not be familiar with the application process for American ... here is also true for American colleges other than MIT, but you should make sure to check with other schools before applying. In addition to
  • Apply / First-year applicants

    Getting started

    action cycle. Just do what works for you! Application fee or waiver Our ... fees presents a hardship for some families. Fee waivers are available for ... share with us as your field of study will not impact your likelihood of

  • Student life at MIT

    “day in the life of an MIT student” looks like for them—and that's part ... ) 73 questions with Nina W. '23 A Week of UROPing (blog by Jessica Z
  • Discover / About MIT

    Life after MIT

    for students to interact with companies through career fairs, recruiting, information sessions and programs, and formal partnerships with individual ... well as informal service consistent with the MIT mission (e.g. by
  • Apply / First-year applicants

    Letters of recommendation

    ! (If you're a teacher looking for guides on how to write good letters of ... your application with two teacher evaluations and one school counselor ... equivalent) should submit the Secondary School Report, along with your
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    About MITAdmissions.org

    domain (i.e., not on mit.edu) for historical reasons: when we started our ... admissions for graduate education or professional and continuing education. We ... write for a general audience of applicants: don't use too much
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    Books about MIT

    that enact MIT's history, from a towering module for the first real ... to negotiating with student protesters Mind and Hand: The Birth of ... compiles photographs and stories of people who have coped with and overcome

  • Arts and music

    painting murals that come to life with augmented reality animations. [embed ... . Click on the room to learn more about the artists responsible for each