Students used to apply to college by sending off a hand-written or typed application to some faceless bureaucracy, never knowing if their essay really got read. But if you're applying to MIT, you can ...

Most applicants apply at the start of their final year of high school. Getting into the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is widely considered one of the toughest academic challenges in the ...

I stumbled across an MIT application form from 50 years ago. You might be surprised by what has—and hasn’t—changed. Until last fall, for as long as there had been an admissions office at MIT (nearly a ...

Anna Tiberi recognized, with joy, the date and time of the release of MIT admissions decisions the moment she saw it written out in numerals: “That’s pi!” For anyone in the midst of college-admissions ...