<p>With a $24M donation, they plan on adding 250 total, over three years. Here is a news article about this: MIT</a> to expand enrollment with $24m gift from alumnus</p>
<p>Housing:</p>
<p>Does this impact the housing availability at all…or is there enough–and some vacancies?</p>
<p>@fogfog</p>
<p>There isn’t quite enough housing as it is. Everyone who wants on campus housing gets it, but there are forced triples in some dorms and MacGregor temporarily converted some lounges to doubles this year. Also there are students living in Ashdown, a graduate dorm, who will all move to the new Maseeh dorm once it opens.</p>
<p>Yay! A higher chance for us prospective '15ers. :)</p>
<p>^ Not really, since more people will apply each year. The increase in class size is probably due to the higher expected applications</p>
<p>Will it effect us internationals? I mean, will they accept more internationals too??</p>
<p>It didn’t say anything about the distribution of the places in the MIT website. However even if they gave us internationals 10-15 more places…with the 3000+ internationals that apply each year…it doesn’t really make a difference.</p>
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More chance than there otherwise would’ve been. If they’re accepting 80 more students this year, then I expect the percentage of accepted students to be around the same as last year’s, which is good considering it’s been decreasing for a while.</p>
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10 places extra, tops, I think. 10% of the class at most is international 
It still makes a difference. Like 0.33% acceptance rate difference, but with the current acceptance rate at somewhere near 3%, that’s an 11% increase. Not awesome, but non-internationals probably get about the same percentage increase anyway.</p>
<p>Current undergrad here.</p>
<p>I’m not particularly happy about MIT increasing its undergraduate size. I feel the school is a good enough size as it is. A lot of classes are already crowded, and more students would just add more burden to a lot of the infrastructure. Granted, it is only 250 more students, but I would hate for it to keep increasing. Supposedly the administration really wants to return to mid-90’s levels, but I haven’t heard a good reason for that statement. </p>
<p>I think if MIT is looking to increase its scientific/technology/innovation output, it should be increasing the number of grad students or faculty, not the number of undergrads.</p>
<p>Just my two cents.</p>
<p>PS: If anyone is curious as to why MIT’s class size was larger in the 90’s, the short version is as follows: back in the day, freshmen were allowed to live in FSILG’s (fraternities, sororities, and independent living groups), but due to an alcohol-related death of a freshman at a fraternity (and the massive suit and settlement that followed), MIT changed its policy and now requires freshmen to live on campus.</p>
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Well, I am. :D</p>
<p>And I think that they’ll anticipate what you noted - seeing as they just got $24M extra, and as a result are expanding the freshman class, I think it’s logical to assume they’re going to expand as needed for the entering ‘extras’.</p>
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<p>They’ve been pushing up the class size for the past couple of years - the extra $24M only popped up recently.</p>
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The boom is over. The number of applications is not really increasing any further, if not decreasing.</p>
<p>@kryptonsa36
Really? I thought i kept on increasing. Perhaps the the increase is slowing down?</p>
<h1>of applicants to MIT,</h1>
<p>Class of 2012: 13,396
Class of 2013: 15,661
Class of 2014: 16,632</p>
<p>Source: [Ivy</a> League Admission Statistics for Class of 2014 Hernandez College Consulting, Inc. and Ivy League Admission Help](<a href=“http://www.hernandezcollegeconsulting.com/ivy-league-admissions-statistics-overall/]Ivy”>http://www.hernandezcollegeconsulting.com/ivy-league-admissions-statistics-overall/)</p>