<p>I wonder how many students applied to MIT for 2013 transfer this year. The few comments on this thread gives you a lil idea (compared to other college’s threads, this one probably has the fewest).</p>
<p>The transfer statistics for Fal 2011 are published here:
[MIT</a> Office of the Provost, Institutional Research](<a href=“MIT Institutional Research”>MIT Institutional Research)</p>
<p>Out of 443 applicants, 44 were admitted, indicating an acceptance rate of roughly 10% (9% for men, 12% for women). This was up from 4% in 2010, and 6% in 2009.</p>
<p>Fall 2012 statistics don’t seem to have been made available; I suppose they aggregate the data at the end of each school year.</p>
<p>They admitted 25 out of 517 applicants last year, according to this blog post: [Transfer</a> Decisions Released Today | MIT Admissions](<a href=“http://mitadmissions.org/blogs/entry/transfer-decisions-released-today]Transfer”>Transfer Decisions Released Today | MIT Admissions)</p>
<p>Still better than zero!</p>
<p>All of my best wishes go out to the family of the MIT Officer who so bravely protected everyone on campus, especially my twin sister. Let’s hope something like that never happens again on ANY campus! Stay strong, MIT. :)</p>
<p>Hey guys! The email telling us when we get our admissions decision should come out soon, am I correct? So excited! :)</p>
<p>^ That decision came out over a month ago. Check <a href=“MIT Admissions”>MIT Admissions; – and if that doesn’t work, call the office tomorrow.</p>
<p>@PiperXP
That’s for regular Pi Day freshman decisions, right? You almost gave me a heart attack.</p>
<p>… oh, I’m dumb, this is the transfer thread.</p>
<p>Ignore me 
Sorry about that!</p>
<p>That’s alright. :)</p>
<p>Let us make this wait a lil faster. I’ll start by guessing that we will get the email next Friday the 26th. Post your guesses and see who guesses right.</p>
<p>. . . it’s a dumb thing to do (I know), I am just exhausted of waiting!!!</p>
<p>I think they’re going to decide on transfers after May 1st, when they know how many freshmen choose to enroll. Especially with all the unfortunate tragedy that has happened in Boston the past week I wouldn’t blame them if we didn’t hear back until the second or third week of may.</p>
<p>I meant the emails telling us the official date for the decisions.
. . . I guessed this Friday 26th.</p>
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Transfers usually come in as sophomores, so isn’t it more likely they would base it on how many current freshmen are expected to return next year?</p>
<p>^ No clue! I was just thinking since last year they had a higher enrollment rate than usual and accepted no one off the wait list perhaps they want to see their enrollment rate before they admit transfers. Trying to make sense of their “2013 transfer students will hear back in early may” vs the usual early april. </p>
<p>Also I started this thread but never posted anything about myself!! California born and raised applied for course 18! Professional classical musician, and avid snowboarder! I have a personal respect and appreciation for the math professors at MIT, it would be my dream school. Good luck everyone!</p>
<p>The change to May could mean “we have so many open spots it’s going to take more time” or it could mean “we have so few open spots it’s going to take more time.” Or it could just be a scheduling decision and nothing more. Maybe MITChris or someone will be nice enough to shed some light on it for us, but otherwise I think it’s fruitless to read into it…</p>
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Sweet, what do you play? </p>
<p>Are you into any other extreme sports?</p>
<p>I got curious about this, and graphed the number of transfer admits against the number of freshman admits from the previous year in Excel (I’m a bit OCD, if you can’t already tell). For the most part, I found little direct correlation between the number of freshman admitted for a particular year and the number of transfers admitted the following spring for fall entry. For instance, in 2003 MIT admitted 1735 freshmen. The following year, 5 transfer students were admitted for fall 2004. In contrast, 1742 freshmen were admitted in 2011 (pretty close to the 2003 figure), but the next year 44 transfer students were admitted! </p>
<p>The center column is the number of freshman admits from the previous listed year. The last column is the number of transfer admits for the fall of the listed year. </p>
<p>2004 1735 5
2005 1665 6
2006 1494 11
2007 1514 17
2008 1553 17
2009 1589 16
2010 1676 24
2011 1676 18
2012 1742 44
2013 1620 25</p>
<p>So, the loose conclusion I’m going to draw from this data is that outside factors (i.e. current MIT students studying abroad or transferring out) may have a greater role in the number of open seats for fall transfer applicants than the number of students admitted the previous year (that is, the class we would join if admitted as transfer students). Of course, I am NOT asserting any sort of fact; this is just a possible notion constructed from a limited statistical viewpoint.</p>
<p>Thanks! You guys have given me a legitimate reason to procrastinate on my physics homework.</p>
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<p>Interesting. Higher freshmen admits + higher transfer admits could just indicate they hired more faculty and are offering more classes. I wouldn’t mind seeing the data for number of freshmen who return as sophomores by year though to see if there is a correlation to number of transfer admits. But I suspect there are too many other variables that could change by year, such as total number of spots, how many credits freshmen decide to get out of the way their first year, etc that might have an effect on the final number of transfer admits for a particular year.</p>
<p>Another possible explanation for the 2012 figures could be that more sophomores were doing UROP’s which created more room in classes (correct me if this reasoning is way off base).</p>
<p>Actually, they do release the percentage of freshmen who return the following year as sophomores, for each year. It’s in the common data set: [MIT</a> Office of the Provost, Institutional Research](<a href=“MIT Institutional Research”>MIT Institutional Research)</p>
<p>Look under “Enrollment and Persistence”, part B22.</p>
<p>Ah, retention rates; that’s what I was looking for. 97-98% consistently; so much for my theory.</p>
<p>LOL! Atari1994 I just gained a lot of respect for you. Putting data into a spreadsheet to procrastinate on homework. (Although I can’t judge, I’ve been reading a book on abstract algebra, which I’m not even taking, to procrastinate on my actual homework).</p>
<p>Joey - I play flute and I wakeboard when the snow melts but I’m not amazing at it</p>