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    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 ... lounge each day really does just create this space where people come to ... , you move to a new city, live with a new roommate, enroll in new classes
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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

  • Policies

    providing an inclusive and accessible environment. To that end, we have a ...  attribution (give appropriate credit to MIT admissions and the blogger, and provide a link to the ... ), October 2015 A diverse student body is and has long been critical to the

  • 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
  • Apply / Preparing for MIT

    Be yourself!

    , love to learn, and want to work on big problems to make the world a ... application as a chance to share your personal context: what has shaped you into ... community so much because we don’t just admit individuals, we admit a class
  • 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

    DACA & undocumented applicants

    consider your (in)ability to pay for MIT in our admissions process."]need ... preservation of DACA and advocating for a pathway to citizenship, and MIT filed ... subcommittee of the Boston Teachers’ Union, has created a resource for applying
  • Discover / About MIT

    Inventions & innovations

    oxygen 2014—Designing a new paper strip diagnostic test to rapidly ... plane over a sustained, steady flight, thus eliminating the need for ... -temperature superconducting electromagnet to a field strength of 20 tesla, the most powerful
  • 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
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    Books about MIT

     by Institute Historian T. F. Peterson, which provides a lively introduction to ... , and impact on the world. Here are some of our favorites: A Widening ... how MIT's first nine presidents helped transform the Institute from a
  • Discover / The MIT education

    Independent Activities Period

    ,[/annotation] IAP has grown to be a unique feature of the MIT education, offering ... machine to a crash course in stand-up comedy. Other students take the time ... [intro]Independent Activities Period (IAP) is a four-week period in
  • 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
  • Discover / The MIT education

    Majors & minors

    , not to a specific major or school, so all first-year students begin MIT ... credentialing and more on the substance of what you need to learn to effectively ... chart below to get a quick visual sense of what you can study at MIT, read
  • 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
  • Apply / Parents and educators

    Advising your students

    energy and enthusiasm. We want students to make decisions that are ... siblings or working 20-30 hours a week to support their family), or who come ... ways to define the best, and we think it’s important that young people be
  • 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