<p>I was curious how the MIT admissions process looks at applicants who go to the same school.</p>
<p>Does MIT single them out, compare, and choose one of the students from the school to admit, or does MIT treat each student individually, despite the fact that they might have gone to the same school?</p>
<p>Or, if both students are qualified, does MIT have any issues with accepting them both?</p>
<p>I only ask because I know there are some other kids in my school who are interested in MIT, and I always wondered if multiple people applying from the same high school creat inner-competition.</p>
<p>Is it possible that there was a student B who would have gotten accepted, but wasn't because there was a student A from the same school who was a better applicant?</p>
<p>Dude. It doesnt matter if one kid applies from the school or twenty. Whoever gets in wouldve gotten in whether they're the single or 30th kid to apply from a given school.</p>
<p>The only way in which students from the same school are compared is that presumably they both had similar academic opportunities. But each applicant is evaluated on their own merits.</p>
<p>From my son's class of 124 students two years ago, 13 students were accepted to MIT (10% of the class). And molliebatmit has said that no one from her HS had been accepted to MIT for years, until the year she was accepted, when another from her class was also accepted. There are no quotas on how many or few are accepted from any given high school class.</p>
<p>I asked my interviewer about this, and she told me that while applicants are reviewed w/o "inner competition," if someone with a lower class rank than you gets in and you don't, your file actually gets a second look to see why you weren't accepted...</p>
<p>There are exceptions to this rule - notably Thomas Jefferson high school in Virginia. MIT caps their acceptees from that school, just because it's so good.</p>
<p>Or, at least, that's what I've been told by a parent of a student there.</p>
<p>I doubt there's a cap on TJ students, or what have you -- there are certainly a lot of them at MIT. Sounds like something parents tell themselves to justify their kids not getting in...</p>
<p>Anecdotally, my friend Akhil and I are the only two people to ever have gotten into MIT from our high school, and we applied in the same year. (And his application was a lot better than mine, if you want my honest opinion. :)) Just do your own thing. Don't worry about anyone else.</p>
<p>how do you know that mollie? did you have some way of checking the records going back a century? I know that there were a few people from my school that went to MIT dating back 10 or 20 years ago, and I'd be curious to know what they're up to</p>
<p>Because I went to a not-that-great high school, and very few people go out of state in the first place, let alone to places like MIT. The first Harvard attendee was only the year before mine, and he was a recruited football player.</p>
<p>There's also a tradition that all the schools graduates have ever attended have flags in the guidance office. My buddy and I bought the MIT flag, ergo we were the first.</p>