PRIMES: How to Apply

PRIMES is a free, year-long after-school research program for high school students. PRIMES includes three sections: MIT PRIMES, PRIMES-USA, and PRIMES Circle.

MIT PRIMES is a year-long after-school program that offers research projects to high school juniors and sophomores from Greater Boston. Program participants meet weekly with their mentors on the MIT campus to work on exciting unsolved problems in mathematics. Applied mathematics projects include problems in theoretical computer science and computational biology. See How to Apply to MIT PRIMES

PRIMES-USA is a year-long after-school distance-mentoring research program for high school juniors and sophomores from across the United States (outside of Greater Boston). Program participants meet weekly with their mentors online to work on exciting unsolved problems in mathematics. Applied mathematics projects include problems in theoretical computer science and computational biology. See How to Apply to PRIMES-USA

PRIMES Circle is a math enrichment program for high school students living within commuting distance from Boston. Program participants meet weekly with their mentors on the MIT campus during the spring term for creative problem solving beyond high school curriculum. See How to Apply to PRIMES Circle

PRIMES is available only to students who reside in the United States. International students are welcome to participate in CrowdMath, a massive online collaborative year-long research project open to all high school and college students around the world.

PRIMES also has an affiliate program for local middle schoolers:

PRIMES STEP is a year-long math enrichment program for middle school students from Greater Boston. Program participants meet weekly with their mentor on the MIT campus for creative problem solving and possibly research. See PRIMES STEP webpage

Academic Integrity Rules

PRIMES expects its participants to adhere to MIT rules and standards for honesty and integrity in academic studies. As a result, any cases of plagiarism, unauthorized collaboration, cheating, or facilitating academic dishonesty during the application process or during the work at PRIMES may result in immediate disqualification from the program, in the sole discretion of PRIMES. In addition, PRIMES reserves the right to notify a participant's parents, schools, and/or recommenders in the event it determines that a participant did not adhere to these expectations. For explanation of these expectations, see What is Academic Integrity?

Contact

With questions, contact PRIMES Program Coordinator Yufei An at