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  Essays, activities & academics

  situation or challenge that you didn’t expect? What did you learn from it ... application, so don't stress about it. Use your best judgment—we're simply
• Apply / First-year applicants

  Interview

  About the interview At MIT we don't just want to see how you look on paper; we're interested in the whole person. That's why, whenever possible, we offer an interview with a member of the MIT Educational Council, a
• Apply / First-year applicants

  Early vs Regular

  , domestic and international. Our Early Action isn't single-choice, binding, or
• Discover / Life and culture

  Clubs & activities

  [intro]MIT students organize more than 450 official student groups, or about 1 for every 10 undergraduates. If you don't find an existing club or organization to match your interests, it's easy to start your own
• Discover / Life and culture

  The MIT community

  isn't the nuclear reactor or the wind tunnel: it's the people. We ... shared values. Extended family MIT operates an open campus. The wifi doesn't ... commitment to the public interest. So long as people aren't bothering anyone
• Apply / Preparing for MIT

  STEM programs

  You might think math and science are serious fun, but you aren’t sure ... these activities. We don't expect or require applicants to participate in ... note="If you don’t live in the United States, you can investigate the

• infinite MIT

  , student adventures to follow—and don't forget to come back and visit ... , and a lot of exploration along the way. We don't read, edit, or ... place you'd like to call home. And if you haven't signed up for our
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  First-year learning communities

  aren't meant to replace dorm communities or fraternity communities or ... who are working to address that problem, so the students don't just come ... -year students come to a tech school like MIT and are worried that the won’t be
• Apply / Preparing for MIT

  Accessing advanced coursework

  If your high school doesn’t offer courses that help you prepare for ... Standardized exams that assess content knowledge If you don’t have access to ... ’ll be able to [annotation note="We don’t require applicants to officially

• Arts and music

  ]https://youtu.be/yA6sr7_x6hQ[/embed] During the pandemic when students couldn't explore
• Apply / Parents and educators

  How to write good letters of recommendation

  , but it doesn't give any real depth to the candidate. In this instance ... . Critique: This is an example of an evaluation in which we really don't know ... just didn't bother to put much effort into the recommendation. This is a
• Apply / Preparing for MIT

  Academic foundations

  ://youtu.be/xdd-TyWGYrs?feature=shared If your high school doesn’t offer a calculus class, we recommend some ... across fields. For these reasons, we don't have specific science course ... your school doesn’t offer courses in these areas, we recommend some
• Apply / First-year applicants

  Biographical & personal information

  application process. We don’t have any preference as to which country you list

• Explore MIT on your own

  [intro]You don't have to travel to Cambridge to get a feel for MIT. Since folks at the Institute are always making, writing, and discovering new things—whether on campus or off—there's more than enough to explore
• Apply / Transfer applicants

  Academic preparation

  academic record doesn't appear to merit credit in a certain subject, you may
• Apply / First-year applicants

  Letters of recommendation

  write letters on your behalf. We don’t hold this against you at all! We
• Discover / About MIT

  Life after MIT

  students who don't go directly to graduate school, many do so in the future
• Apply / Parents and educators

  For home educators

  recommendations (but don't submit more than four total recommendations) from those
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  About MIT Admissions

  avoid any [annotation note="For example, we don't care if you apply Early or Regular, we don't consider demonstrated interest, we're need
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  WISE 2025

  during the week and you will miss ~two days of school. And, don’t worry, we ... application! Create your account in our application system if you don’t