<p>Is there quota at MIT for Indian Students. How much is the quota.</p>
<p>There is no quota for students of any state or country. Its not like IIT with the messed up OBC/SC/ST stuff 
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<p>Still, common sense dictates they probably will not take more than 10-15 Indians in a year at the VERY maximum.</p>
<p>I am not asking for caste quotas.
But for admission quota like 10% indian or something in MIT Caltech etc.</p>
<p>There is no quota. Anywhere (at least the places you’ll be applying to). Unless of course, the school in consideration is a state school which is bound by state law to accept a particular % of in-state students.</p>
<p>Tastycles, it’s not common sense. It’s the lack of competitiveness. A college/university has standards and if they believe that a student exceeds those standards, then the student is accepted. Now, imagine the consequences. (edit: or insinuations)</p>
<p>You could not be more wrong Tizil. Universities definitely have quotas for countries. If they had uniform standards for everyone then US universities would be inundated(far more than they already are) with Asian students. Each country has a separate standard set for it which in essence is like a quota. Unfortunately no one really knows what this quota exactly is but it is pretty obvious it exists.</p>
<p>Caltech maybe not though. They are known to repudiate most non-merit based admissions criteria such as URM’s, sports quotas and so on.</p>
<p>Mystic, I thought that universities have artificial quotas based on the race, and hence my comment on different levels of competitiveness. However, I didn’t know that they would outrightly say that they will accept only x amount of students form a particular country.
Technically,
that’s what I meant.</p>
<p>Do you not think it odd that 90% of intl students in top universities are not from Asia? If it were purely based on merit it would be. While universities dont have a firm quota, they do have a gauge of how many they want to take from each country. And therefore, someone like you based in Europe has a much better chance for the same merit than someone from Asia, most notably, Singapore, Hong Kong, Korea, China and India.</p>
<p>Its a diversity thing. They accept internationals to have a rounded, diverse student body. No college wants to be filled by students of one ethnicity or nationality. </p>
<p>On that basis, MIT (which has an entering freshman class of ~1100 each year), taking around 15% internationals (at the maximum), will have 165 internationals students in their freshman class. </p>
<p>Assuming their yield rate is 60%, they will accept 275 internationals a year. Not more than a third of those could be Asian, so those 92 Asians will be split between India, China, Hong Kong, Korea, Singapore, Thailand, Pakistan/Bangladesh/Sri Lanka/Nepal and the rest of the countries. </p>
<p>As India probably will be in the top 3 for admitted students in Asia, it would still not have more than 15% of the total. Which results in 14 Indians accepted. Close enough to my initial figure of 15</p>
<p>All that is optimistic conjecture, but in my honest opinion, that is a reasonable number of acceptances when it comes to a statistical estimation.</p>
<p>@tastycles thanks for approximate estimation. By studying this figure we can get gist of acceptance rate for perticular country. It will help to make good portfolio.</p>
<p>@ akietta A portfolio of what exactly?</p>
<p>application portfolio</p>
<p>there is a quota, but its more like a guideline i think. its not like they will have to take a certain amount of people, although they will leave that much space open for international students. If the applicants that year are not up to their standard, they won’t take them!</p>
<p>@Tastycles</p>
<p>Bad estimate da. 15 is too high. MIT has a total of about 30 Indian students currently. Across four years. Last year they accepted 5.</p>
<p>(<strong>Not sure about the 5…some sources say 4, some 5</strong>)</p>
<p>I have no clue about quota as such, but MIT accepted 7 from India for their Class of 2015…</p>
<p>@Mysticgohan- Dude how many applicants does Caltech accept from India?</p>
<p>I was the only one last year. Typically 1 or 2 I guess.</p>
<p>MysticGohan, weren’t you accepted from Singapore?</p>
<p>the one which got into Caltech have done some research that is very theoretical.</p>
<p>Is that number for those who matriculated or those who matriculated and denied offers?</p>