<p>Hello!</p>
<p>I recently read that MIT has a quota for International students, and that that quota for freshman admissions is 100. </p>
<p>It would follow that they also have a quota for International transfers, but if transfer admits are only about 15 a year, what is this quota? Is it 1 or 2?</p>
<p>I am an international transfer -_-</p>
<p>I think you are right. If they have quota for transfers, perhaps 3 or 4 for internationals. :(</p>
<p>I think it’s likely that international transfer admits are not done with a quota themselves, but in line with whether admitted students will cause a certain class to go over the already-established quota for the whole class (which I think is 8% overall). This is, e.g., how it’s done for admitting international students off the waitlist.</p>
<p>Mollie, </p>
<p>I read in the MIT website (can’t find it now) that the quota per year for International students is 100. However, when I checked on the admission statistics for my class year- entrying in the fall of 2009- it says 123 Internationals were admitted. Does this mean that there’s no space for Class of 2013 International transfers?</p>
<p>Thank you so much!</p>
<p>P.S- My application is already in, I am just trying to calculate how many spots are actually available. -_-</p>
<p>I found it! Here’s the link:</p>
<p>[MIT</a> Admissions | Blog Entry: “International Men & Women of Mystery”](<a href=“http://www.mitadmissions.org/topics/apply/international_applicants_helpful_tips/international_men_women_of_mys.shtml]MIT”>http://www.mitadmissions.org/topics/apply/international_applicants_helpful_tips/international_men_women_of_mys.shtml)</p>
<p>I think they most likely admit more than 100 international students, because admitting ~125 students will presumably provide a yield of around 100 students. </p>
<p>Also, from the link, Matt says
That indicates to me that there’s some wiggle room each year in the number of students admitted – it’s not that they admit precisely 100.0 international students. </p>
<p>Recall, also, that the number of students admitted as freshmen is not the same as the number of students returning as sophomores, which is the reason MIT is able to admit any transfers in the first place.</p>
<p>I thought the internationals are admitted as a percentage of the incoming class, hence the number differences every year. (since the number they admit for the incoming class also fluctuates)</p>