<p>In what way(s) do these factors affect the admissions process? I'm wondering because my interviewer specifically asked about and wrote down these things.</p>
<p>I too wonder about this. I myself am the first child of two Indian parents; we moved to the US when I was 6 years of age. Bump?</p>
<p>Wait a minute… I am also the first child of two Indian parents, and we also moved to the United States when I was 6.</p>
<p>Twins!</p>
<p>If you don’t have a green card you’ll be considered an international applicant. Other than that, your interviewer probably asked and wrote down those things because they are relevant to your life story and will help put your application in context. I doubt MIT particularly likes or dislikes first generation immigrants.</p>
<p>As a first generation immigrant currently at MIT, I doubt that my immigrant status had anything to do with my acceptance. I did write about the culture which I come from in one of my essays. However, if that essay helped me to get in, it was because of my different cultural upbringing, not because of my immigrant status itself.</p>