<p>Four people (including me) are applying to MIT next summer from a Mexican school. Now, I'm concerned because a couple of them are masters (god knows how many contests won) in mathemathics, and I just have several informatics qualifications. I definitively best them at other areas, but anyway. Is there a possibility that several people are accepted from the same school and class (2007) when that class is less than 60 people?</p>
<p>I've read about it in one thread (forgot which one though) that adcoms evaluate each applicant separately, no matter how many of his/her classmates applied.
Which means, that even if no one'd applied to MIT, but those 80 students from your school, your application would have been still evaluated independently. :)</p>
<p>So if one of us gets accepted, the others don't get automatically disqualified? Is there a (remote) chance all four of us get accepted?</p>
<p>The admission rate for internationals is, I believe, only 5%. So based on pure chance, the odds of any 4 particular internationals all getting accepted would be 0.05 x 0.05 x 0.05 x 0.05. So the odds are only one in 160,000. But everyone gets considered. They won't automatically disqualify the other students from any school once they admit one.</p>
<p>Mmm, quoting myself. It's so classy.
It's certainly unlikely that two people from a random school would get in, but neither will affect the other's chances at admission.</p>
<p>I went to a public school in Ohio -- no one from my school had ever gotten into MIT, and only a few people had ever applied. Two of us applied from my class, and we both were admitted.</p>
<p>There are no school quotas, and there are no regional quotas.
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<p>So I'll only be competing the same way as with everyone else. Good. Thanks for all your answers.</p>