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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
  • 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 ... these short answer essay questions: What field of study appeals to you
  • Discover / Life and culture

    Clubs & activities

    , including: Laboratory for Chocolate Science, a club dedicated to the ... a venue in which to learn and practice (safe) LED prop and fire ... club or organization to match your interests, it's easy to start your own
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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

    Academic foundations

    MIT to develop a broad base of knowledge across [annotation note ... students are much more likely to succeed at MIT academically when they have ... -calculus, which are designed to lay the groundwork for a calculus course that
  • Apply / First-year applicants

    Getting started

    Regular Action. There is no strategic benefit to applying during either ... fees presents a hardship for some families. Fee waivers are available for ... the Fee Waiver Request section of the application. MIT practices need
  • Discover / Life and culture

    Athletics & recreation

    addition to a Division I crew program. MIT is highly competitive within its NEWMAC conference. It is possible to be a student and athlete at MIT ... school, MIT does not award athletic scholarships, nor do coaches get to
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    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
  • Discover / About MIT

    Life after MIT

    mentorships, and chats over coffee. According to a survey of graduating students ... to graduate school. These and other data, including popular fields ... , and our alumni are proud of that.  Everything else There's a lot more to
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    First-year eligibility

    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 ... pursuing a different field of study from the bachelor’s degree you hold. By
  • Apply / Transfer applicants

    Transfer eligibility

    bachelor’s degrees—even if you are interested in pursuing a different field ... entering MIT. If you are still in high school, you are considered a first ... submit one application per entry year, meaning if you apply to enter in the
  • Discover / The MIT education

    MIT’s educational philosophy

    -motivated and engaged participants in a dynamic community of learners. We combine rigorous academics with a learning-by-doing approach.[/intro] Our guiding principles Since the first classes were offered in a storage warehouse in
  • Discover / About MIT

    Inventions & innovations

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

    released, and making a video to announce Pi Day became an unexpected ... the country to be shown at meetings for prospective students for a ... by faculty of the need to work ethically in the production of science

  • 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

    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 / Preparing for MIT

    STEM programs

    students come from a wide variety of contexts and may not be able to access ...  that are either free to attend or, like MIT, offer generous need ... students PRIMES-USA, a free, year-long research program in math open to