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In 2010, it was dubbed "most selective" by U.S. News, [190] admitting few transfer students [178] and 4.1% of its applicants in the 2020–2021 admissions cycle. [191] It is need-blind for both domestic and international applicants. [192] MIT offers 44 undergraduate degrees across its five schools. [193]
At MIT, the admissions process involves resume screening followed by a 30-minute phone orientation. Prospective applicants are also invited to visit the program in Cambridge , Massachusetts for class visits, to engage with current students and meet the program officers.
Cheryl Butters was the program administrator from 1975 until her retirement from MIT at the end of January 2011. The program had office and classroom space on the second floor of the old barracks building (MIT building 20; the lounge was room 20C-221), where it resided until the building's demolition in 1998 to make way for the Stata Center. [4]
A new motion filed Monday in a lawsuit spanning back two years accuses elite colleges of secretly favoring the wealthy in the admissions process and demanding $685 million in damages.
Early action (EA) is a type of early admission process offered by some institutions for admission to colleges and universities in the United States.Unlike the regular admissions process, EA usually requires students to submit an application by mid-October or early November of their senior year of high school instead of January 1.
MIT president Susan Hockfield called Seminar XXI a "legendary program". [1] The Seminar XXI director stated in 2010 that the seminar was successful due to five factors: its "innovative approach" in using multiple perspectives to understand foreign policy, its intended audience of current or rising leaders, its faculty of "world-renowned ...
The pranks were seen as a way to merge Caltech and MIT's independent but similar pranking cultures. Campus Preview Weekend was chosen because the Caltech students would blend in with the unfamiliar prospective freshmen, and to increase the pranks' visibility. MIT Dean of Admissions Marilee Jones said, "I think it's hilarious. I consider hacks a ...
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology has often mailed its application decision letters to prospective students for delivery on Pi Day. [23] Starting in 2012, MIT has announced it will post those decisions (privately) online on Pi Day at exactly 6:28 pm, which they have called "Tau Time", to honor the rival numbers pi and tau equally.