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  • Afford / Cost & affordability

    How much it costs

    [intro]We are committed to helping our students pay for their MIT education. We offer aid that meets 100% of your demonstrated financial need ... . We offer full-need financial aid, which means we meet 100% of your
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    First-year learning communities

    and need to know,” Ramsay said. ESG is a community in and out of the ... , you move to a new city, live with a new roommate, enroll in new classes ... . These groups help to provide a close-knit community and academic environment to
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    WISE 2024

    , don’t worry, we’ll provide you with a participation letter to take back to your school if you need one. What you need for the application There ... why here. To best assess a student’s potential fit for the program, we
  • Apply / Preparing for MIT

    Summer programs

    . Similar to the way we look at a student’s extracurricular activities, there ... free to attend or (like MIT) offer generous need-based financial aid. MIT ... , or scoping out the stars sound like a fun way to spend your summer
  • Apply / First-year applicants

    Essays, activities & academics

    get to know you. Remember that this is not a writing test. Be honest, be ... too much—spending a lot of time stressing or strategizing about what ... tackling the world’s biggest challenges to lending a helping hand. Describe
  • Apply / First-year applicants

    Letters of recommendation

     and—when available—a School Profile and letter of recommendation). You will be able to ... like to ask so that they have as much time as possible to write about you! (If you're a teacher looking for guides on how to write good letters of
  • Apply / First-year applicants

    International applicants

    colleges, including MIT. This is a quick overview to help you understand how ... considered by MIT to be an international student. If you are a U.S. citizen or ... , whether you are a domestic applicant or an international applicant does
  • Afford / Cost & affordability

    How to apply for aid

    paint a detailed picture of what kind of aid you’ll need to be able to 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 / Transfer applicants

    Veterans

    their service, and we are proud to support a community of veterans on ... —especially calculus, the building block for many of our courses—is essential to a ... take a free exam through Schoolhouse to receive a certification
  • Apply / Understanding the process

    Our selection process

    reading—but there are a few you really need to read. These are the blog ... How it works After you click the submit button, it's easy to feel like your application has entered a black hole. So what really happens
  • Discover / Life and culture

    The MIT community

    our faculty, or at least to become more like them: smart, hardworking ... 't require a password, and its museums and libraries are open to the public ... Professor Emeritus Jay Keyser once observed that "MIT is hard to get into, and

  • infinite MIT

    like to be a student here. There are videos to watch, blogs to read ... authentically about what it's like to be a student here. So we encourage you to ... learn from each other.[/intro] When we admit a class of students to MIT
  • Help / Contact

    Via mail

    [intro]Although we prefer that you email us if you need us, you will find our mailing address below. We'll get back to you much faster via ... -related documents to us for some reason—or if you would like to mail us something not
  • Help / Contact

    Via email

    , then we'll sort out who needs to respond and [annotation note="We get about 70,000 emails a year that are answered by a dedicated staff of about four people. We average a response within 24 hours, but the number of
  • Apply / First-year applicants

    Transcripts

    school does not have a school counselor, your transcript may be submitted ... to be submitted and processed, we will add it to your application as a ... We require an official transcript sent by a school counselor or
  • Afford / Cost & affordability

    Estimate your cost

    a more in-depth review and to determine Pell eligibility you will need ... Calculator is a tool designed by the College Board to help you assess what your ... take no more than 20 minutes of your time. You will need to answer some
  • Apply / First-year applicants

    First-year eligibility

    [annotation note="Note that we do not formally require you to have graduated or earned a GED, though you may well choose to!"]concluded[/annotation] their secondary education and wish to pursue a bachelor's degree as a full
  • Apply / First-year applicants

    Early vs Regular

    apply to another school during Early Action that does have a restriction ... fine to apply during either cycle. We do not have a preference, and there is no strategic benefit to applying in one vs the other. We have two