Women's Technology Program

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Summer 2008 admissions decisions have been mailed. If you applied and have not yet received a letter, please send us an email and we will tell you your status.

The MIT Women's Technology Program (WTP) is a four-week summer academic and residential experience where female high school students explore engineering through hands-on classes, labs, and team-based projects in the summer after 11th grade .

Students attend WTP in either:

Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS)
or
Mechanical Engineering (ME).

Please explore our web site by clicking on the links to the left. The Application page has details about who should apply. Curriculum information is available on the WTP-EECS and WTP-ME sites. WTP is designed for girls who excel at math and science, but who have very little or no prior background in engineering or computer science.

The four-week program includes rigorous classes taught by female MIT graduate students, and allows girls to explore through hands-on labs and team-based projects.

Admissions are very competitive; we received 219 applications for summer 2008. Sixty students (40 EECS, 20 ME) are admitted each year from a nationwide applicant pool of the top 11th-grade female math and science students. No prior experience in physics, calculus, computer programming, or engineering is required, but we do expect students to to have taken the most advanced classes in science and math appropriate for their grade level at their schools, have standardized Math test scores (PSAT, SAT, ACT) in the 80% percentile or higher, and be able to handle college-level material at a rapid pace. We do not admit students who have already covered our curriculum through academic coursework or other summer programs.