<p>A friend of mine told me that MIT has admission slots for international students according to the amount of research their country does, so for example, china has 15 admitted students, while the whole of latin America has 5. Can anybody confirm, deny this?</p>
<p>china has 15??? OMG :eek:
India has around 4-5</p>
<p>There are currently 13 undergrads from China at MIT, and 10 from India.</p>
<p>that list includes all the undergraduates presently at MIT...isnt it?
I think danbertusmaximus was talking about Freshman only</p>
<p>Yes, the list I posted a link to includes all undergrads (and grad students in the second column -- you'll see a far larger number of international grad students!).</p>
<p>(a) I feel fairly certain that there are not "quotas"/admissions slots reserved by country (other than the fact that international admissions are capped at a certain percent of the total admitted class).</p>
<p>(b) I recall that the international yield rate (the percentage of accepted students who matriculate) was even a bit higher than the 65+ % of domestic students accepted last year. If so, we could guess there would be ~ (13/4) / .7 accepted freshman applicants from China (~5).</p>
<p>But I'm sure it varies greatly from year to year and cannot be turned into any sort of algorithm. The only constant is that international admissions are extremely competitive.</p>
<p>sometimes kids get admitted from other countries that dont count as international. for example, i have a friend that was born in america, moved to philippines at age 2 and lived there throughout, and he doesnt count as international. otherwise, those numbers will be much higher.</p>
<p>There is a section in the table I linked to above labeled "U.S. Citizens with Foreign Address". Students like your friend would be counted in that total.</p>
<p>I think that the adcom's - Ben and Matt at mymit have specifically stated that there are no country quotas.....judging by the numbers for the previous years....i believe them</p>
<p>i distinctly remember that mit's only quota is that international students form 8 % of the student body .....</p>
<p>o my god - 2 people from Vietnam for undergrad (both was accepted last yr....) uh... how is my chance this year? :((</p>
<p>If you take [url=<a href="http://web.mit.edu/6.041/www/%5D6.041%5B/url">http://web.mit.edu/6.041/www/]6.041[/url</a>] (Probabilistic Systems Analysis) at MIT, you will find that the mere occurence of an unlikely event has no effect on the probability of the same event occuring in the (near or far) future.</p>
<p>So the fact that both current Vietnamese students got in last year has no effect on the likelihood of pc31's admission.</p>
<p>^^ right. complete indepedence of probability.</p>
<p>What facinates me is that the law of large numbers still hold true.</p>
<p>Hee. And this is why Mollie is awesome. =D</p>