<p>Hi my fellows from CC. During this stressing fall I decided to apply only one university, not because I didn't have time or money, just because I'm in love with MIT. I have sent my application and all forms. Question is: do universities know how many colleges applicant had applied? And will applying sole college boost your chances in that college? Thanks!</p>
<p>You are an international applicant. Like you, many internationals apply to only one or two schools in the US. </p>
<p>Presumably, you have alternatives in your own or other countries. </p>
<p>This will have no impact on your chances at MIT.</p>
<p>Once you are preparing documents to apply for US schools, it simply worth nothing to add a few to your list. So why not get into some other institutions? Love is one and its really great, but it also doesnt give you any guarantee. Aiming high you may even get a full ride at some small LACs or top universities. I would advise choosing more.</p>
<p>applying to only one school, especially MIT regular decision, is foolish unless you have an incredible hook (did you happen to win the international math Olympiad?)</p>
<p>Telling the school will not boost your chances and may backfire. They will wonder about your common sense in having no backup or Plan B. So apply to several universities in your country and the US.</p>
<p>MIT as your sole application as an int’l? Risky? Uh…yes.</p>
<p>Lottery ticket. The reason people apply to multiple colleges is to increase their chances. Especially if you pick some colleges where you have a better chance of getting accepted. MIT is one of the most selective schools in the coutnry, if not the world. I do believe they are need blind for internationals, don’t know if they treat internationals differently in the admissions process with quotas or other issues. But US applicants find MIT a tough admit by a long shot MIT is very much a long shot for everyone.</p>
<p>Applying to one school is risky unless the one school is certain to admit you and certain to be affordable. MIT is not such a school for anyone.</p>
<p>And MIT is one of the rare colleges that has a very very very low acceptance rate for internationals. It’s under 1% for undergrad (more in graduate school). Check out their statistics, it’s all on their website.</p>
<p>You are an international applicant.</p>
<p>If MIT is the only place you would want to study in the US, applying only to MIT is fine.</p>
<p>I am sure you have plenty of good options in your own country that you are applying to as well.</p>
<p>Good luck!</p>
<p>Well, MIT is a special case, since you don’t even have to take the SAT if you’re an int’l, and you don’t have to write a Common App essay and such. If you didn’t take both SAT and TOEFL and you didn’t write a 650-words essay your choice was correct. Otherwise, unless you consider your non-US schools a better fit for you than any other college in the US, applying only to MIT is poor time management.</p>
<p>Why would applying to just one US college boost your chances? How could the adcoms be certain that you won’t refuse MIT for, say, Cambridge, Oxford, ENS, NUS, Toronto, ETH Zurich and so on?</p>
<p>Hey guys thank you for all your feedbacks I really appreciate that. Actually, yes, I’m international student applying to MIT, which is my top choice. Also here in my country I have ‘plan B’, safety colleges offering fully covering scholarships. So it is like MIT or nothing (colleges in my hometown). Another kind of reason I did not apply to other universities is because I hate writing essays. Omg how I hate doing that. </p>
<p>Again Thank very very much! :)</p>
<p>If you have backups on your country and MIT is the only US university you are interested in, there is nothing wrong with only applying to MIT.</p>
<p>Risky? no its foolish</p>