<p>Self-explanatory title</p>
<p>Since MIT has so few spots to offer international students, the admissions committee wants to consider all international applicants together. International applicants are actually selected separately from domestic applicants -- they're all read and selected as a group.</p>
<p>So it's not really that MIT doesn't want internationals to apply EA, it's just that MIT wants to read and select all international students together.</p>
<p>OK, thank you!</p>