<p>will the low EA acceptance rate trend continue for the 2006-07 yr or does it just depend on factors like availability of space, and appllicant pool size?</p>
<p>It depends mostly on the applicant pool size.</p>
<p>MIT is committed to not admitting more than 30% of the incoming class via EA, so that there aren't so many people accepted EA that there's no space left for RD.</p>
<p>Many, many EA applicants are deferred to the RD pool, and those students are entirely reconsidered during RD decision-making. Many students who are deferred EA end up being accepted in the RD round.</p>
<p>EDIT: Well, I guess it also depends on space indirectly. All MIT freshmen have to live on campus, and there are a limited number of dorm rooms, so an incoming class can't be much more than 1000 or else people have to be crowded into dorm rooms. If the admissions office plans on about 2/3 of admits enrolling, they can only accept about 1500 students total in EA and RD.</p>
<p>yup yup mollie knows her stuff. =D</p>
<p>true, I got deferred and admitted during RD, so they do fully reconsider you.</p>
<p>Do you chances improve in RD if you were deffered during EA? Maybe they do, because you show commitement to MIT, or am I completely wrong?</p>
<p>Well, you are fully re-evaluated during RD if you are deffered, but your chances do not improve (according to admissions) you compete for a spot against all of the other applicants.
You might take in consideration the fact that during EA only 30% of the class is admitted, leaving a 70% for RD. From that 70%, 10% are internationals, which leaves 60% for domestic applications, exactly the double when you compare it to EA, so your chances do improve if there aren't that many new applications for RD, I guess</p>
<p>ktoto, if your question is whether applying EA shows more of a commitment, and hence an extra ticky-mark if you're deferred and then considered with RD applicants, the answer seems to be no. As omareduardo13 mentioned, Admissions says that all applications are fully evaluated during RD, and I think they're being honest. The advantage to EA seems to mostly be getting an early answer, and there's no real drawback if your application is complete and ready to go by the early application deadline (e.g. not waiting on first semester senior year grades to demonstrate a continuing up-trend, or not waiting on late SATs). So if you're ready to apply, you might as well.</p>
<p>I thought it was odd that the EA acceptance rate (13.5%) is less than the overall rate (14%)</p>
<p>Not odd when you think about it. A total of almost 25% of early applicants were admitted, 13% EA and 12% RA after deferral.</p>
<p>hmm i don't think the stats work that way - just looking at the ppl who applied EA, the RA % for them would be different (in contrast to everyone who was in consideration for RA). </p>
<p>but yea i also got deferred EA then accepted! sending more supplemental stuff in between def helped, also since u realize what u should've shown more after more time.</p>
<p>These are MIT numbers not mine. The EA deferrals do have a different admit rate during RA ( 12% vs. 14% as a whole).</p>
<p>akdaddy, you can't just add the numbers together. You find the average of the two to determine the acceptance rate, not add them together. Think about is, if I have 10 apples in one pile, and 10 in another, and I take 20% of the apples in each pile, which is two from each pile, that doesn't mean i took 40% of the total pile, instead I took 4 from 20 total, which is still 20%.</p>
<p>I know that. The mistake I did make was picking up the wrong EA deferred RA admit number. Actual numbers were 377 EA (12.2%) and 285(9.2% inferred from 12% of 2371 deferrals) for 662/3098 for an actual admit rate of 21.4 % vs. 13% for the class as a whole. Sorry about the error.</p>