<p>So I saw the article that Yale put out about early admissions and MIT was 5% more selective than any other school (Yale at 17.7% and Stanford at 18.9%). Will RD have a similar trend? or is it just because MIT has the non-binding/non-SCEA that it's RD rates should be exactly be the same as its EA rates?</p>
<p>I read somewhere that MIT's EA accept rate is usually always considerably lower than other places simply because they do not want to fill up the entering class with EA applicants and give zero chance to any of the RD applicants. The whole non-binding deal might have some affect, too.</p>
<p>I'm thinking this year will be slightly more competitive than last, but will be a little better than the EA acceptance rate.</p>
<p>-Jared</p>
<p>It would be interesting to compile statistics for deferred EA students who were interviewed. </p>
<p>Anyway, here are the statistics I have calculated. Note, I have not done any confidence intervals or eliminated possible biases. Also, since these are from past year's data, they can't be to heavily relied upon. Since MIT has a much larger number of EA applicants this year (and we still don't know the number of RD applicants) we can't really extrapolate from this data.</p>
<p>That said, here are my calculations. </p>
<p>Overall Chances EA = 23.30% (including deferred students who were ultimately accepted)
Overall Chances RD = 13.46% (excluding deferred students, only "new" RD applicants)</p>
<p>Within the RD pool itself, EA deffered students have about an 11.92% chance at acceptance, which is only a little behind the typical non-EA, RD pool applicant. I hope these statistics haven't further confused you. If you have any further questions, don't hesitate to ask.</p>