<p>That’s a pretty big question.</p>
<p>You might start to develop an answer by looking at the admissions webpage, especially [the</a> section on the “match”](<a href=“http://www.mitadmissions.org/topics/pulse/the_match_between_you_and_mit/index.shtml]the”>http://www.mitadmissions.org/topics/pulse/the_match_between_you_and_mit/index.shtml), and at the last three years’ of CC results threads, which are linked from the first post of the [url=<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/massachusetts-institute-technology/941045-mit-faq-application-year-2010-2011-a.html]FAQ[/url”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/massachusetts-institute-technology/941045-mit-faq-application-year-2010-2011-a.html]FAQ[/url</a>] stickied at the top of the forum.</p>