<p>Any figures on the number who applied EA to MIT this year? Is it more or less(doubtful?) than last year?</p>
<p>I dont even think they plan on counting until next year. Can you imagine even counting to around 15 thousand....LOL (Its an MIT board so Kudos who anyone who has) Let alone can you image reading pages and pages of essays some 15 thousand times..........I almost pity them</p>
<p>I don't think it will change, why will it?</p>
<p>growing population</p>
<p>ya, but not by much from year to year</p>
<p>I believe they mentioned 4,000 applications when the website went down.</p>
<p>Which is a SIGNIFICANT increase from last year.</p>
<p>Really? What was it last year?</p>
<p>2794 people applied early action last year.</p>
<p>OK, I wasn't aware of either of those figures. What do you think caused the sharp increase, or has it been going up like that for a while?</p>
<p>MITblogs ?</p>
<p>I would guess, as I've been saying, the success of the MITBlogs and the Central Meetings.</p>
<p>Also applying early has become more and more common. I don't like this at all :/</p>
<p>Agreed. Especially if they say "well, double the apps EA this year, we can only accept the same number EA, and we can defer the rest and do double the work in a few months or reject a greater percentage than usual". So EA accept goes down and EA reject goes up. Ah, I hope that doesn't happen.</p>
<p>it's already low enough! God I hope that doesn't happen. pray with me mognoose, will ya? lol :)</p>
<p>Yes ma'am, have been for the past month. :)</p>
<p>me too, maybe it would help more if I had a religion! dang.</p>
<p>What follows is a logical analysis of the provided data. </p>
<p>Given the overflow of applicants, probably about 1000 more than last year, how can MIT accurately predict the number of RD applicants? Since they can't tell how many will apply until January, they probably won't be able to generate the percent of accepted students to come from EA. Right? </p>
<p>As a result, how can they determine what percentage of EA applicants to accept? They would probably accept about the same number of students as they did last year (maybe a little less) and defer the majority, leaving about the same rejection rate as last year. That way, they would be planning for the worst-case scenario. This would mean a decline both EA acceptance and rejection rates and an increase in deferral rates for the EA population. The RD evaluation gets more interesting...</p>
<p>Either, the RD number of applicants can decline (more of the RD candidates moved to EA this year) or it can increase (more people are being drawn to MIT). In the first scenario, it shouldn't make much of a difference to the overall admissions rate for EA applicants (since EA and RD acceptance percents are about the same). It should only affect the EA acceptance rate. The second scenario would be bad for all of us. Since MIT has a limited number of spaces, their rejection rate would probably increase! In either case, its bad news! Either we get to know later whether were accepted or we dont get accepted. I hope this information (4000+ EA applicants) is rumor!</p>
<p>But it's not the percent of students who are accepted EA that's kept constant -- it's the size of the entire class, which can't be much over 1000 or freshmen have to be crowded in dorms.</p>
<p>They accept no more than 30% of the class EA, regardless of how many applications there are. They don't need to predict the number of RD applicants to do that.</p>
<p>where did you seee/hear 4,000 EA? Curious.</p>
<p>I must have overlooked the overall limit. But does this limit really apply? Didn't MIT accept about 50% more than their limit last year (1495). Is this a strict limit or do they just try to squeeze in as many applicants as possible :-). </p>
<p>Also, with regards the 4000 applicants, didn't MIT say the server could handle more then 4000 last-minute applications at the same time? I'm probably mistaken, but I don't think they mentioned that 4000 applications had already submitted when the site went down.</p>