<p>So I’m a student from MIT, so I don’t know all the info obviously, but from what I’ve seen from from my time at MIT, I get the opinion that athletics will be evaluated simply as one of your many extracurricular talents. However, MIT is not looking to crank out pro-athletes or olympic gold medalists, it’s looking to crank out the leaders of tomorrow’s science, technology, and business leaders. MIT has had a few extremely talented athletes, but the most important things is that you show the potential to be one of the future leaders. Admissions at MIT will definitely consider your application with recruiting in mind, but they have some academic standard that everyone accepted must be above, even if an athlete.</p>