<p>Is there a limit on # of number of students getting admitted from a school in EA and RD ?</p>
<p>The reason I'm asking is significant number of students applied to MIT EA from my school. I'm wondering how the decision making would work. Will the applicants be compared with their peers from the same school ? If so, is the applicant pool split between boys and girls ? How does that work?</p>
<p>There is no quota limiting the number of people taken from each high school. However, in practice, if there is nothing particularly distinguishing about people (i.e., they are garden variety high school achievers with high scores, grades, and well-rounded), it is unlikely that a whole boatload of people would come out of one school. Usually, the # of people who get into the school over the past few years is a good general indication of the range of people you should expect to get in. If you go to a special magnet school with a high concentration of smart people, then as many as 10-20 may get into MIT in a given year. For a normal good high school, I wouldn’t expect more than 1-2 (again, assuming you didn’t have an influx of talent for some reason in a given year.)</p>
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<p>No, there isn’t. We admit whom we want to admit, and whenever we want to admit them.</p>
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No, applicants aren’t ever directly compared with people from their school, or city, or region, or state. Every application is read and discussed independently of every other application.</p>
<p>^They may not be directly compared by school, city, region, or state, but at some point there is some method to increase geographic diversity. Is there some reshuffling at some later point? I guess if different groups of people in admissions are reading sets of applications and apps are randomly distributed among these groups, there may be no knowledge of how many people are admitted from a certain school. I could see this being a problem, though, for magnet schools in which nearly the entire school is academically qualified for MIT (especially since getting "B"s isn’t a dealbreaker.)</p>