<p>And I thought it was difficult last year!</p>
<p>1548</a> admitted frosh for the Class of 2017 - The Tech</p>
<p>What about the international pool ?</p>
<p>I guess MIT doesn’t give the international acceptance rate. However, last year 10%(Am I right?) of the admitted class are international while this year the percentage has dropped to 8%!</p>
<p>It seems like 124~ internationals have been accepted. Also, this year it was clearly better for domestic students to apply EA (simply do the math).</p>
<p>That rejection still hurts.</p>
<p>^Who cares about the math after the decisions, that too after a rejection. I’ve already started looking at the transfer admissions page!</p>
<p>EDIT: Last year, 148~ int’ls were accepted.</p>
<p>agreed with bluthfamilymem</p>
<p>In my opinion they had to admit less internationals in order to increase the gap between RD and EA domestic admits for the sake of fairness (not fair for us internationals!).</p>
<p>Why would it be fair to increase the gap between EA and RA admits ? I don’t get it</p>
<p>to make it look like they have the same acceptance rate for EA and RD (more people apply RD).</p>
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<p>That’s not how causality works </p>
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<p>and this has literally nothing to do with it</p>
<p>What’s the reason for the smaller number of international admits ?</p>
<p>The comparison given in the article is kinda apples to oranges as it is comparing admitted students this year to enrolled freshmen. There are minor differences in yield between group which account for some of the fluctuations and I think international students have a higher yield. The composition of admitted students in 2012 can be found here [1,620</a> students admitted to Class of 2016 - The Tech](<a href=“http://tech.mit.edu/V132/N12/admissions.html]1,620”>http://tech.mit.edu/V132/N12/admissions.html). It seems international students were 8% of admitted students in 2011 and 2013 and 9% of admitted students in 2012. The obvious conclusion is that this is just random noise and doesn’t reflect any change in admissions policy.</p>
<p>Intls Admitted in 2012 : 148
Intls Admitted in 2013 : 124</p>
<p>24 people is a LOT in such a small pool.</p>
<p>Where are you finding the exact number of internationals admitted per year?</p>
<p>For last year : [Admissions</a> Statistics | MIT Admissions](<a href=“http://mitadmissions.org/apply/process/stats]Admissions”>Admissions statistics | MIT Admissions)
For this year : it’s 8% of 1548, according to the tech ~123.84</p>
<p>There is some uncertainty in this year’s estimate as if between 117 and 131 international students were admitted it would be 8% of admitted students. The smaller number of students admitted this year also explains part of the difference. Together this might explain about half of the drop. The rest of the difference could either be from random noise or a minor tweak in policy.</p>
<p>And for RD if you look at 650 accepted as EA and those that got deferred into the RD pool that 8.2% is a lot lower</p>
<p>Do we have know how many male and female applicants yet, to calculate admissions rates by gender? I imagine for guys it’s around 6%, which makes me especially nervous that I’m going to find out that my offer of admission is just going to disappear, and find out I’ve actually gone insane during the admissions process, and wake up as a 49 year old woman…</p>
<p>Especially since I just got wait-listed at UChicago (although the interview I opted for over the phone was stupendously unstupendous for reasons I won’t go into here…)</p>
<p>Anyway, as deliriously excited as I am to have gotten into MIT, I know the admissions process is rather sad, and that many of you are over-qualified for this institution. Sadly, it becomes somewhat arbitrary when admissions is deeply involved emotionally and intellectually with a large number of students, but have to select a few… Imagine each admissions officer looking at 30 amazing applicants side by side, and being told they have to accept 4 of them… Obviously a crazy and imperfect system, but the best we have…</p>
<p>Hopefully you all buffered yourselves by applying to multiple great schools, and you’ll find yourself accepted into a wonderful community in the coming weeks!</p>
<p>According to: [An</a> Increase in Female Applicants Seen for Class of 2012 Admissions - The Tech](<a href=“http://tech.mit.edu/V128/N34/classof2012.html]An”>http://tech.mit.edu/V128/N34/classof2012.html)
“Of the 3,391 female applicants, a double digit percent increase from last years class, 761 (or 22.4 percent) were admitted, said Schmill. Just 8.8 percent (828 of 9,464 male applicants) were admitted”</p>
<p>So let’s extrapolate and assume a slight increase in female applications, creating a 2.5 : 1 male to female applicant ratio. Thus of 19,000 applicants, 5430 are female. Thus 13,570 males, of which about 800 are accepted, for a 5.9% male acceptance rate… and a 14.5% female acceptance rate…</p>
<p>Super competitive for everyone, even for females because they are more self-selecting. And even if they weren’t, 14.5% is still damn low…</p>
<p>When more data become available I’m sure we’ll find that:</p>
<p>Male acceptance rate: 5-7%
Female acceptance rate: 13-16%</p>
<p>MIT is allowed to have 10% overall as international students which means they want about 100 students in a class size of 1000. However, they have high yield among international students and probably expect 100 students to matriculate out of 124. </p>
<p>The other piece could be that they need to balance out undergrad at 400 students and are willing to live with 90 instead of 100 this year because many more showed up last year?</p>
<p>BTW, despite 148 admits last year, the admit rate was 3.2% last year. So it has never been easier being an international applicant.</p>
<p>///\ see this also </p>
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<p>Financial aid. We are one of only a handful of schools in the U.S. who are need blind and full need for international students. That means we don’t consider the need of students in determining whether to admit them (to preserve academic integrity) and we commit to giving them as much money as they need to come to MIT. </p>
<p>Because international students are not eligible for federal aid that means their aid comes out of MIT’s pocket. And because of disparities in the distribution of wealth internationally most of our international students get most (if not all) of their money from MIT. </p>
<p>There are other considerations too of course (we’re an American school, and even with unlimited money we would admit mostly Americans, I’d imagine). But the single biggest factor is the amount of money that we have available to give internationals while preserving our commitment to need-blind, full need admissions.</p>