<p>MIT</a> Admissions: Admissions Statistics</p>
<p>Percentage of Those Ranked who were:
Applicants Admits Admit rate
in Top 5% 5,109 788 15%
in Top 6-10% 1,230 65 5%
in Top 11-20% 854 29 3%
below top 20% 554 0 0%</p>
<p>What does this mean?What rankings mentioned here?; school ranking? SAT ranking?
How come 788+65+29=882(MIT admits 1600) ?</p>
<p>This is class rank within a school. </p>
<p>It doesn’t add up to the total number of admits because a large number of MIT admits come from schools that do not rank students.</p>
<p>So it doesn’t mean nobody below top 20% can get into mit?</p>
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<p>It just means that nobody who is below the top 20% of students in a school that does rank their students was admitted. Since this pool is about half the admits, it’s probably not off base to say that in practice, nobody (or ~1 person/year) is admitted to MIT from below the top 20% of their class. It may be hypothetically possible, but these data don’t show it happening.</p>
<p>My counselor told me when I was going through the admissions process that MIT puts a huge amount of emphasis on class rank as a factor in admissions.</p>
<p>My school doesn’t rank. I have 55 students in my grade, so to be in the top 10, you need to be in the 1-5. I am not. So, am I “safe” from these statistics?</p>
<p>Wouldn’t it be kind of unfair for those students whose schools rank them when at least half of admits come from schools that don’t?</p>
<p>Also, I have <200 students in my grade and top 10% would mean less than 20 people. I don’t really know what my rank is yet but my GPA is generally high and I am taking the hardest courseload possible.</p>
<p>How many kids has your school sent to MIT? How many from your class will be applying? There are a lot of factors, really. I assume since you are thinking MIT that you’ve gotten some advice from a college counselor saying it might be doable for you? Great scores in math…etc…something…</p>
<p>I have not spoken to the counselor yet about MIT. A genius from my grade is applying to MIT. We sent people to MIT, Stanford, Brown, UPenn, Cornell, Dartmouth, and Columbia. But my stats don’t care compare to any of them.</p>
<p>"How many kids has your school sent to MIT? How many from your class will be applying? "
it doesn’t makes difference,</p>
<p>Does anybody knows this statistics also includes int students?</p>
<p>I believe it does – it doesn’t specifically say otherwise.</p>