<p>Is this true? I heard it from someone at my school. If thats true, then the EA acceptance rate is lower than the RD one.</p>
<p>It is very possible as MIT will cap the number of EA admissions to 30% of the class. Most EA applicants are deferred and get a second look in the regular round. If you include the deferred who are eventually admitted the acceptance rate is slightly higher than for the RD round. There is really no advantage to applying EA except for the fact that you are notified earlier if you are admitted.</p>
<p>I haven't seen the numbers for this year anywhere yet, but for the class of 2010, the EA admissions rate was 12.7% and the RD admissions rate was 10.2%. (I believe that the previous year, the EA admissions rate was actually lower than the RD rate.)</p>
<p>If you add together the admits who applied EA and were accepted EA with those who were deferred and accepted RD, the overall admission rate for those who applied EA was 22.7%.</p>
<p>All of those numbers are available [url=<a href="http://www.mitadmissions.org/topics/apply/admissions_statistics/index.shtml%5Dhere%5B/url">http://www.mitadmissions.org/topics/apply/admissions_statistics/index.shtml]here[/url</a>].</p>
<p>i'm pretty sure the EA rate was 11% this year
but you can check the blog archives to verify</p>
<p>MIT Early<br>
Admit: 390
Applied: 3493
11.17%</p>
<p>MIT Regular
Admit:1143
Applied:8950
12.77%</p>
<p>MIT Total<br>
Admit: 1533
Applied: 12443
12.32%</p>
<p>Yes, it's true that MIT is one of the few schools that is harder to get into early (percentage-wise) because of its imposed limits on how representative of the class early admits get to be.</p>