Introduction
The MIT educational experience is like a series of
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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| Overall Score (about) | 99.6 |
| Total Cost On-Campus Attendance | $70,240 |
| Admission Success rate | N/A |
| ACT / SAT 75%ile scores | 36 / 1570 |
| Student Ratio Students-to-Faculty | 8 : 1 |
| Retention (full-time / part-time) | 99% / N/A |
| Enrollment Total (all students) | 11,574 |
Academics
First, a general overview. MIT is divided into five schools: Architecture; Engineering; Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences; Management; and Science. Within those schools there are twenty-two academic departments (such as Brain and Cognitive Science, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Mathematics). Most departments offer several majors, all of which are variations on a theme. Students aren
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Admissions
From the time Early Action applications arrive in early November, until Regular Action decisions are made in early March, each admissions staff member will have read close to 950 applications. It seems that most MIT applicants have high standardized test scores and very good grades. Our pool is very self-selecting, so a lot of the applicants are quite similar. We turn down a surprising number of straight-A students.
The take-home message is that you need to be distinctive. MIT is fortunate enough to be able to pick and choose from a very large pool of academically superior applicants. Distinction comes in many forms; athletes, musicians, chess players, and debaters are all distinctive if they achieve at a high level. Applicants who work on a farm for thirty hours a week and still manage to get straight As are distinctive. Students who have gone out of their way to take college courses or participate in independent research are distinctive. And of course, extreme academic talent or achievement is distinctive.
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Athletics
MIT has an amazingly large athletics program
Alumni
Many extraordinarily bright people have attended MIT. The institute has had more than its share of Nobel Laureates, National Medal of Science recipients, and the like. Rattling off a long list of MIT
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