<p>@HateSMUS </p>
<p>I disagree with you tbh. International admissions are almost full based on FIT for MIT. The sad truth is that the vast majority of internationals have never visited MIT, never taken any MIT online courses and are applying to MIT so that they can have that on their r</p>
<p>You are on the dot…I guess, but even I applied this year. Awesome 3 months!</p>
<p>@rajoftheuk</p>
<p>@Freeman94, even if we assume domestic RD admission rate is around 5%, it’s still higher than 3% of international admission.
@rajoftheuk, your third sentence doesn’t really makes sense to me. The sentence about sad truth sounds contradictory. True, being a good ‘FIT’ is the one that matters the most. And I’m Asian applicant, so I know some stereotypical study-machine students who literally study all day. But I have to question, what is a good ‘FIT’? Last year, a Korean senior student from my high school got into Princeton, but rejected from every Ivy-league. He had 2370 superscored SAT1 and had no leadership experience at all. Does it mean Princeton value leadership less than MIT? I think the standards for ‘fit’ has too much variables that it appears to be random to applicants like us. I have no doubt that the notion of ‘fit’ greatly influences admission process, but at the same time, admission process is so random that people call Ivy+ admission process a crapshoot. Assuming lot, or most of MIT international applicants have the finest standardized test scores (2200+) and good GPA, I think the realistic chance for passionate and bright international applicants you mentioned, would still be as lower than 10%. I didn’t mean to sound discouraging and it could have sounded provocative to say ‘internationals shouldn’t expect admission’. There are just so many bright and talented students for only 150 place that no matter how talented an applicant is, his or her chance would still be very low.</p>
<p>When I read the MIT undergraduate statistic, I got an impression that MIT truly evaluates each international applicant as an individual, not biased with their nationality. The admission statistic correlates with the number of applicant from various countries. Although we don’t have specific statistic, it is the norm that lot of international applications for top american universities come from Asian countries, especially from China, South Korea, and India. For their high number of applicants, the likelihood of having more talented or 'fit’ted applicants increases. Indeed, MIT undergraduate admission admitted a lot of applicants from China, S.Korea and India which implied that they don’t really restrict number of admission given to certain nationality.</p>
<p>Are people really just applying to MIT for the name ?
That sounds crazy to me, I’m just so in love with MIT…</p>
<p>MIT was the first school I ever heard of, contrary to the popular Harvard for many</p>
<p>It was like a first love (OMG so cheesy)</p>
<p>Great comments. I think that, if every International student followed this rule, MIT would have to make more spaces for International students! <a href=“http://mitadmissions.org/blogs/entry/how_wrestling_with_snapping_tu[/url]”>http://mitadmissions.org/blogs/entry/how_wrestling_with_snapping_tu</a></p>
<p>Cheese melts in the mouth really fast but takes quite a long time to digest < if you get what I mean…or even if you dont></p>
<p>We’re not talking about cheese are we</p>
<p>Hey guys! RDer here! I first found out about MIT by watching 21 (the card counting movie) when I was 12… Sad, I know, but I fell in love 
lulz</p>
<p>Yes we are…in an indirect sorta way:)</p>
<p>Omg I can’t wait haha…</p>
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<p>I thought the movie 21 was very interesting. I wished they showed slightly more aspects of MIT. Besides, it was weird to see Professor Rosa(I think it’s his name?) taught at MIT. I was confused because I wondered why MIT would employ such immoral and exploitative professor. But it was merely a movie.</p>
<p>@HateSMUS. I went to a local MIT info session and the guy started out by explaining the differences between 21 and actual MIT. I was heartbroken, but managed to recover in time to apply 
The guy was also super witty and just generally hilarious, which made me want to go even more (the presentation was fun and excited as opposed to the others that night).</p>
<p>Does anyone know when we get decisions?</p>
<p>We should get them around Pi day (03/14/2013).</p>
<p>^Yupp, that’s what I’ve heard. I think they do that every year.</p>
<p>Interestingly enough, the MIT class of 2019 will have their decision posted not only only pi day, but at pi date (03/14/15).</p>
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<p>Like, aside from the helicopter overshots, MIT itself? 
The movie wasn’t filmed on campus. From what I gather (and this is complete gossip), they wanted to close the Infinite in winter to do filming. That was a big no.</p>