麻省理工物理学博士申请要求
分类:院校介绍2019-11-29
Your completed application must include:
- MIT Graduate Admissions Online Graduate Application; in the Statement of Objectives, summarize your interests, academic and scientific achievements, research experience, and the research you hope to undertake as a doctoral student, if known. You will be asked about your "research fields of interest"; for more information about active research areas in the physics department, see the Research Areas page.
- An official transcript from each institution attended for undergraduate, and if applicable, graduate studies. This should be scanned and uploaded to your online application. Please be sure that a list of fall term courses is included in this official transcript, or, if your institution does not list fall term courses on transcripts before grades are final, send an unofficial record of fall term courses, appended to your transcript and uploaded with it. Send your fall term grades as soon as they are available by going back into your application and uploading either an unofficial report or an official transcript if possible. A hard copy of your transcript may be requested later if additional processing is required; please do not send a hard copy of your transcript until we ask that you do so.
- Three letters of recommendation. Letters of recommendation are extremely important to us. You should solicit letters from scientists with whom you have worked, if you have been involved in research; in all cases, seek letters from people who can provide concrete and detailed information about you and your scientific and academic abilities. Letters should be sent via the on-line application system. Please note: an optional fourth letter may also be sent through our system;
- We require relatively recent results from several standardized tests: the General GRE, the Physics Subject GRE, and, for non-native English speakers, either the TOEFL or IELTS exam. Both the General GRE exam and the Physics subject tests are required. Applications for the September 2020 start date (December 2019 application deadline) must include test results from between summer 2017 and November 2019. Please plan carefully for the Physics GRE test, which is given on very few dates and in very limited locations. Details about registering for and taking the test are at https://www.ets.org/gre/subject/about/content/physics. Candidates who have not taken the exams until after our deadlines will not be considered.
Special instructions: Your online application will require you to attach an official electronic copy of your test scores. These will be available to you approximately one month after taking the exam. Please see http://www.ets.org/gre/revised_general/scores/get/ for further information on score reporting.. MIT’s GRE code is 3514; the code for the Department of Physics is 0808.
You should self-report all GRE scores, including Physics Subject test and any required language test results, as soon as they are available to you and also upload a copy of these scores to your application. You can access your scores by logging into your ETS account (https://mygre.ets.org/greweb/action/ViewScores) and can upload a copy of the electronic score report from there. Please request that an official copy be sent from ETS (which we will use to verify your self-reported scores). Reviews can begin with self-reported scores. All candidates offered admission will be required to submit their official scores by March 15.
- All applicants whose first language is not English must include an English language test score report. MIT Physics will accept scores from the following exams: IELTS (International English Language Testing System), TOEFL, TOEFL iBT, and the C2 Cambridge English Proficiency exam. Applications for the September 2020 start date must include test results from between summer 2017 and November 2019.
Exceptions are possible for candidates who, at the start of their graduate studies, will have been in the US (or any country where the official language is English) for three years or longer and who will have received a degree from a college or university in such a country before starting their MIT Physics doctoral studies. As part of your waiver request, please provide a letter from a faculty member attesting to your English proficiency, specifically addressing spoken as well as written English (http://web.mit.edu/physics/prospective/graduate/faq.html). The letter should be on letterhead and emailed to the Graduate Coordinator, Sydney Miller. Please include a scan of any earlier TOEFL or IELTS results, even if they are out of date. An interview via telephone or Skype may be arranged at the discretion of the Admissions Committee.
Special instructions: Your online application will require you to attach a scanned copy of your test score report. Official scores must also be sent directly to MIT from the testing service. MIT’s TOEFL school code is 3514; the code for the Department of Physics is 76. IELTS does not require a code; have these scores sent electronically to “Graduate Admissions - Massachusetts Institute of Technology." - With the exception of the language exam we do not maintain different admissions standards for International applicants.
