To be admitted to MIT, in addition to top academic performance, unique essays and international awards are also essential. In short, you must have a strong overall quality to have a chance! You don’t just have to study well to get into the school, because there are too many people in the world who study well. You need to be outstanding. First, let’s take a look at the basic admission requirements of MIT in 2020:
1. Undergraduate application requirements
1. Graduation from a regular university with a bachelor's degree;
2. TOEFL no less than 90, no individual requirement; IELTS no less than 7.0, some majors only require 6.5, some majors require 7.5 or above, no individual requirements;
3. The average SAT score of freshmen is 2240;
4. GPA is not less than 3.5, freshmen The average GPA is 3.7.
2. Postgraduate application requirements
1. A batch of undergraduate graduates from domestic 985 universities;
2. University scores, GPA around 3.8; TOEFL 110, GRE It must be close to full score (at least 5 in writing), GMAT 750 or above;
3. Recommendation letter from an outstanding person (this is very important, it must be a well-known domestic and international scholar or person);
4. Self-recommendation should clearly highlight your uniqueness and potential and clear future plans;
5. Academic achievements, such as domestic scientific and technological invention patent awards.
3. Comprehensive quality
1. Reached national or world-class level in a certain aspect (such as Olympic figure skating champion)
2. Show extraordinary scientific research ability (for example, have published scientific papers in first-class magazines)
3. Show extraordinary leadership ability (leader of an important organization)
4. Have extraordinary Important family background or social relationships
5. Excellent academic performance (usually GPA, SAT, AP exams)
6. Demonstrated excellent oral expression skills and social skills and good mentality (interview)
7. Showing extraordinary literary level and publishing literary works can be only one of the above, or two or more at the same time. Every year, some students get into MIT simply because of their academic performance, but the percentage is quite low.
Introduction to MIT:
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), referred to as "MIT" (MIT), is located in Cambridge, Boston, Massachusetts, United States. , the main campus is built along the Charles River and is a world-renowned private research university.
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology was founded in 1861. It focused on applied science and engineering in the early days. After World War II, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology rose rapidly by relying on the research and development needs of U.S. defense technology. During World War II and the Cold War, MIT researchers made important contributions to the development of computers, radar, and inertial navigation systems.
MIT is famous for its top engineering and computer science, with MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (MIT CSAIL), Lincoln Laboratory (MIT Lincoln Lab) and MIT Media Laboratory (MIT Media Lab), whose researchers invented the World Wide Web, the GNU system, the Emacs server, the RSA algorithm, and more. The school ranked first in the world in engineering and second in computer science in the 2016-17 ARWU Academic Ranking of World Universities. In 2018-19, US News ranked first in engineering and first in computer science among national graduate schools, together with Stanford University and the University of California. Berkeley is known as an academic leader in engineering technology.
As of March 2019, MIT’s alumni, faculty, and researchers have produced 93 Nobel Prize winners (sixth in the world) and 8 Fields Medal winners (eighth in the world) and 26 Turing Award winners (second in the world).
In 2018-19, MIT ranked first in the world in the QS World University Rankings, second in the world in the USNews World University Rankings, fourth in the world in the Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU), and Times Higher Education World University. Ranked fourth in the world. In 2019-20, in the Times Higher Education world university reputation rankings, MIT ranked second in the world, second only to Harvard University.