Important Information about your Financial Aid Application. Hi all, Many of you have already filed your application for Financial Aid and that’s great!
Applications are handled through the Student Financial Services office (SFS). If you have questions, you should use this email: sfs@mit.edu or call 617-258-8600. Admissions officers won’t be answering questions about financial aid on this post because we’ll be in committee making decisions about Regular Action applicants and the comments will be closed. But we did want you to know a few things: You can now track the status of your financial aid application by logging in to MyMIT. Students who have completed their applications by February 15th will receive their financial aid awards shortly after Regular Action admission decisions are made in mid-March.
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Requires Adobe Reader (latest version recommended).Have all tax forms and documents ready.Use a secure browser and a valid credit card.Sign up with the same username if you submitted a PROFILE application last year (2013-14) and we'll automatically fill in some of your information. The College Board System operates on a software as a service platform that is located in the United States. Therefore, your information will be transferred from your location to the United States. When you furnish information to the College Board through this system, you are consenting to a cross-border transfer of that information. Partner Colleges. Advice On The Essay. I recently opened my in-box to find an email from someone who "would love to interview an admissions officer from your prestigious university to measure the impact of the admissions essay on today's college applicant.
" The email included a bunch of questions. Seemed harmless enough, so without thinking too much about it, I wrote the following in response: Hi, Essays are a wonderful way to connect with the selection committee on a human level, i.e. beyond all of the test scores, grades, etc - so we read them very carefully. Quite simply, we are looking for the applicant's true voice when we read his or her essay. Encourage students to write from the heart and to not have their essays edited by any counselor, service, parent, etc - I can't speak for all schools, but here at MIT, that's what we're looking for. Best wishes, Ben After sending the email I got curious about the URL in the recipient's email address, so I checked out the site.
Oooops. The rules are simple: write your own essays. Bleary-eyed. Probably one of the most linked-to/referred-to posts on this site is Ben Jones' famous "It's More Than A Job" post from March 2006.
I've read and re-read it so many times, and it rings true to me every single time (except the statistics in there, of course, have gotten even crazier - e.g., the admit rate is now 9.6% instead of 13%). This post will not be as eloquent as Ben's, but is certainly in the same vein - and is every bit as heartfelt. A few weeks ago, I had an epiphany of sorts. Many Ways To Define “The Best” Hello, I’m Anthony. It's nice to meet you.
I'm a new freshman at MIT, a member of the Class of 2009. I was admitted early action and received the news around lunchtime on December 14, 2004. I promptly withdrew my applications to other schools and committed my near future to the progressive locale of Cambridge, Massachusetts. This blog is an effort to share the journey with you as I shed my rural desert roots in search of the rest of my life. I'm eighteen years old. I am not exactly a traditional student, though for a while I thought I'd like to be.
I turned five and went to enroll at the local primary school, where I was deemed a bit of an enigma. Meanwhile, my parents were weathering a rocky road in their relationship and found it necessary to divorce, with my mother moving out of state and remarrying. Registration Bulletin and Forms. Download Free TOEFL® Test Registration Bulletins Get complete instructions for registration, forms, identification (ID) requirements, score reporting information, policies and procedures.
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