<p>lilyrobin - Ok, I understand, and I am sorry if my post was offensive, I was not trying to be.</p>
<p>effward-don't worry, I don't think it was offensive! I just sometimes feel like I have to defend our actions-I do kinda agree with you about some things though, there are times when people here (on CC) seem a liiiittle too intense about things.</p>
<p>I am totally starting to feel that I'd rather be denied than deferred. Ya know what I was thinking about today? What if you were deferred and then WAITLISTED. That would be the longest, most torturous wait EVER. Sheer hell.</p>
<p>By the way, does any know about what percentage of the freshman class MIT fills with EA applicants? For example I know that "word on the street" is that 60% of the freshman class at Penn are typically ED. I guess what I'm asking in a very long-winded way is what is the acceptance rate for EA alone?</p>
<p>hey lilyrobin u forgot some 16 year olds to... cough cough... me... lol.. not just "17 and 18 year olds..."</p>
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By the way, does any know about what percentage of the freshman class MIT fills with EA applicants? For example I know that "word on the street" is that 60% of the freshman class at Penn are typically ED. I guess what I'm asking in a very long-winded way is what is the acceptance rate for EA alone?
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The acceptance rate for EA applicants admitted EA is usually the same as (or sometimes a little less than) the acceptance rate overall. MIT is committed to filling no more than a third of the class during EA.</p>
<p>EA applicants who are deferred to RD are admitted at about 12-13% again, so overall about half of the class is composed of people who applied EA, although some were admitted EA and some were admitted RD.</p>
<p>You can see the numbers for yourself, nicely broken out by application time, [url=<a href="http://www.mitadmissions.org/topics/apply/admissions_statistics/index.shtml%5Dhere%5B/url">http://www.mitadmissions.org/topics/apply/admissions_statistics/index.shtml]here[/url</a>].</p>
<p>Edit: Ha! Beat you all! And with formatting! :D</p>
<p>2006 stats</p>
<p>MIT</a> Admissions | Blog Entry: "2006 MIT Admissions Statistics"</p>
<p>12.7%</p>
<p>MIT</a> Admissions: Admissions Statistics</p>
<p>better thread: 2008 - 13.3%</p>
<p>Last year MIT accepted a little over 500 EA applicants. This was a larger group than usual because they didn't know how the results of Harvard and Princeton dropping EA/ED were going to shake out. My recollection is that in previous year, it was in the high 300s. </p>
<p>P.S. I just went back and looked at last year's MIT blogs -- last year was 522/3937 apps, the year before that 390.</p>
<p>P.S.S. Others were quicker on the trigger than I!</p>
<p>Ambitiousteen-I'm 16 too! Hooray for us!</p>
<p>However, I will turn 17 in January, so the fun ends there, I guess :D</p>
<p>yah... fun ends jan 26... funny enough during my math exam LOL...</p>
<p>wow, you really are some ambitious teens! Are you guys applying a year early or just ahead a year in school? I can't imagine going to college at sixteen or seventeen, I'd feel so young!</p>
<p>skipped the grade einstein failed... hope someone knows what grade he failed</p>
<p>but i mean he did only fail cuz he had a disorder... dyslexia</p>
<p>this wait is EXCRUCIATING</p>
<p>if no one got what grade einstein failed... it was the sixth grade lol</p>
<p>yeah, I skipped eighth grade, but it's not a big deal because I didn't skip a year of information - I just went from homeschooling to high school, and didn't want to spend a year in middle school. the end.</p>
<p>hopefully I'll be in the middle of my first IAP when I turn 18...one can only dream.</p>
<p>Lol, let's look at the other specturm of age of college bound kids. Anybody going to college at 19 year old as I will be? (yeah, instead of skipping grades as you guys did, I repeated first grade....I was pretty slow back then. lol)</p>
<p>My S's roommate (a freshman) is 19 and will be 20 before the end of the school year. S is young for grade himself.</p>
<p>I turned 19 a month into my freshman year. I didn't skip a grade, the Midwest just has different birthday cutoffs than most other places. :) I'm actually older than quite a few people in the year above me at MIT.</p>