<p>Hi, I am Dada from Dhaka, Bangladesh. I found a peculiar trend in MIT selection from Bangladesh. Last few years, all the selected students are female. This year one female student from Chephalon International School got selection. Last year another female student selected from Dhaka and before that another female student from Chittagong got selected.
Probably MIT found that Bangladeshi females are more science oriented and talented than male students.
Another trend is, only one is selected and another one will be made wait listed. So, actually MIT maintains an invisible quota system for this country.</p>
<p>No there probably isn’t a quota system. There are many, many well qualified candidates from all around the world. These students simply were lucky that MIT liked them better than umpteen others from their country, and from other countries.</p>
<p>MITs quotas are not invisible. They state they have a quota for internationals every year ( varying between 105-110) which they decide at the start of the admissions cycle. It is entirely conceivable they have a quota for your country and maybe every other country as well. Its far too great a coincidence that the number of admits from each country remains constant. </p>
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<p>Not exactly. MIT does have a quota for internationals (~130-150) and for each country. For instance, MIT consistently takes 2-3 people from my country. Also, as number of women applying to MIT (~25% of the applicant pool) is drastically lower than that of men, it is obvious that girls have a better shot at MIT…</p>
<p>Ha ha. Some people will say that you’ve cheap mentality, Dada. I also found it a bit perplexing. But, MIT exhorts females to apply. Maybe that’s why?</p>
<p>Actually this is not the question of type of mentality. It is just my sincere observation.
This year 2 extremely brilliant (according to Mr. Mahbub Majumder, the only MIT EC in Bangladesh, who conducts MIT interview) male applicants, who are also math bronze medalists were rejected by MIT,<br>
However, it is the MIT, which will decide whom they will select or reject for their institution. I just expressed my observation only and I am sorry if anybody gets hurt.</p>
<p>Again I want to say that it is my observation only and I was not an applicant in MIT and I don’t have that much quality also.</p>
<p>Thanks.</p>
<p>Anyone know a similiar thing about israel?</p>
<p>Mahbub sir himself echoed that “Bangladrshi boys are chotolok” as they think exactly as this thread is entitled.</p>
<p>Bangladesh is a democratic country. Everybody can express his view. I expressed my view and others like you and mahbub majumder expressed his view. Those are personal views and everybody may not agree with all these views. Others may have their own views, which may not be similar like mahbub majumder.</p>
<p>Your observation may be correct, but I disagree with your analysis. Since the female applicant pool is 3 times as small as the male applicant pool, and they admit roughly the same amount of men and women, it is 3 times higher acceptance rate for women. I would not think MIT would say no to a male if he would have some great international awards and perfect SAT in all sciences and math just because he is a man. I am not saying that those girls who were admitted have worse applications than other guys, just that the odds are probably in their favor.</p>
<p>It is the sole right of MIT to decide whom it take according to its need and my argument is just for a peculiar trend. However, we should thank MIT for taking one student per year at least from Bangladesh when many other top schools like Harvard, Princeton, Stanford, Yale, Caltech don’t do that.</p>
<p>Dumb luck I guess. But, I do wonder if Tarik Adnan(Harvard) bro was accepted into MIT or not. Anybody knows? That would even tge odds :)</p>