<p>Statistically speaking, what is the chance that an international MIT/Caltech reject NOT asking for finaid can get into stanford? just curious....</p>
<p>i really don't think there is a correlation. each of the schools are looking for different things.</p>
<p>^^ agreed. If you've been rejected from those, logic would tell you that your chances at Stanford aren't very high. However, there are plenty of cases where a person gets into one but not the others, which proves that each one is choosing different students. More than that, it's difficult to tell since international admissions are very, very competitive.</p>
<p>Yep, I'm living proof. Got accepted to Stanford SCEA, got greedy and applied to MIT RD and I was rejected today. Anyway, Stanford is a much, much better school than MIT so if you get admitted 2 weeks from now you'll forget about MIT and Caltech. :)</p>
<p>I would say zero percent.</p>
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<p>LOL!!!! If you had been admitted to MIT, you def would not be saying that. </p>
<p>Other than that I agree with what everyone said. It's a crapshoot. They're all looking for some similar things, and some different things. GL!</p>
<p>it's real random crap shoot. I know someone who got rejected at Cornell and MIT but accepted at Stanford. (Int'l applicant).</p>
<p>I also know someone who got accepted at Yale but rejected at WUSTL. Really random</p>
<p>WUSTL is notorious for rejecting/waitlisting 'overqualified' students. That could explain it.</p>
<p>Haha... I know this is going to sound stupid, but what is WUSTL?</p>
<p>Washington University in St. Louis.</p>
<p>And I don't see a clear correlation. I mean, you could have been a definite reject, maybe reject, or almost-accepted reject at MIT/Caltech. Depends on your resume.</p>
<p>vc08, hey I've just been rejected, don't I get to vent lol?</p>
<p>My cousin was rejected from MIT and accepted at Stanford. It could have been because he told his MIT interviewer he wanted to be a lawyer, though.</p>
<p>haha... perhaps that's why I was rejected then.... at the interview, I kinda spaced out for a moment because it was late at night and it had been a long day.... turned out in that moment my interviewer was telling me a story about taking risks at MIT, and how they had published a paper saying the theory of continental drift was ridiculous... he said it as a joke, so of course I was supposed to laugh, instead I just kinda stared at him with this confused expression like I didn't know what he was talking about =P He probably thought I was stupid after that....lol.</p>
<p>... and then we started talking about Stanford =S Haha...oh my</p>
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Nah, I got accepted to both MIT and Stanford but I still think Stanford is a much better school. Go through the thread containing the stats of MIT applicants, you'll see that MIT accepts many low scoring females yet rejected an asian male with near perfect scores and 2x USAMO, USABO, USNCO. I really don't have any respect for MIT admissions after seeing that.</p>
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<p>Go through the thread containing the stats of Stanford applicants, and you'll see that Stanford accepts many low scoring URMs yet rejected Asian students with near perfect scores and lots of prestigious competitions.</p>
<p>Stanford isn't exempt, just different.</p>
<p>From my understanding of Stanford's application process, they have two pools for internationals, with aid or without aid.</p>
<p>If you apply to Stanford without aid, then it seems to me, from what posters have said in this thread and from a personal friend's situation, it's easier to get into Stanford than MIT (as an international). It makes sense too since Stanford isn't need-blind for internationals.</p>
<p>This was from nngmm:
"If you are international and do not need fin.aid, you are not at disadvantage. You may even have some advantage as far as diversity issue (though it's not like URM). If you are international that needs fin.aid, you are at disadvantage, though there are many who get in with fin.aid."</p>
<p>MIT is need-blind for internationals. The international acceptance rate is about 4%. I would say that the pool without aid is not as competitive while the pool with aid is just as competitive.</p>
<p>So as far as the OP is concerned, there's no correlation between a rejection from MIT and an acceptance at Stanford, which is always the case anyway. In fact, you probably have a better chance at Stanford if you didn't apply for aid.</p>
<p>D is high scoring Female (2370, 800s SAT II), rank 1/440, AIM, USABO, lots other awards and leaderships and waitlisted by MIT. I also know other amazing high scoring females rejected by MIT.</p>
<p>This is reply stupidkid's post above.</p>
<p>I'm actually one of those low scoring students who got waitlisted at MIT...yet I'm a Chinese male. College admissions is really random when you start looking at the high level schools.</p>