<p>Heyy guys i wanna ask that does being a part of a really big applicant pool like of India will completely ruin my chances .. i mean like for e.g. my country has almost 5-10 IXO Medalists and i m just a finalist .. so they obviously show a superior academic qualification i agree .. but does that set me too low in the admissions criteria ?? .. in other words if a person have 2300 in SAT and i only have 2100 .. will he be preferred over me since the applicant pool is so big that these scores itself put people apart ??</p>
<p>.. and does MIT have a set criteria for students from different geological areas say different counties ???</p>
<p>90% of this years freshmen are from the USA.
10% are from the rest of the world…about 100 students.</p>
<p>11.4% of USA applicants were admitted.
3.7% of Foreign applicants were admitted.</p>
<p>Obviously the odds are stacked against you but the difference between 2100 and 2300 will have no bearing on your admission. IXO medalist vs. finalist probably won’t make much difference either.</p>
<p>My guess is that your essays will have much more impact than either of those items.</p>
<p>heyy heyy thanks a lot … and i gues you were about to write a 1000 or more but not a 100 isnt it ?? … now the question is does ur reply apply to any size of applicant pool from a particular geographical area ? or it is over the entire international population who is applying ?? i mean … in layman terms … in my opinion only … how will essays differentiate between 3000 students ??</p>
No, scores would never be a deciding factor, as long as they’re good enough (and 2100 would be good enough). </p>
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No. And although MIT strives for diversity in international applicants as well as domestic, there are not set goals or quotas for applicants from particular countries. </p>
<p>There are, indeed, many Indian applicants to MIT. But there are many admitted Indian students, as well – currently there are 33 Indian undergrads at MIT, which is more than any other country except for China.</p>
<p>“MIT strives for diversity in international applicants” </p>
<p>Mollie, from your post above, are you implying that geographical area is taken into consideration? therefore, lets say two applicants has everything almost identical, does that mean if one is from an underrepresented country, he/she is likely to be accepted than the one from an advantaged country?</p>
<p>In other words, is geography a tiebreaker if everything else is the saem? Thank you :D</p>
<p>Ahh my bad, sry, nice point I should just add I guess that I meant only diversity and that it comes normally with a geographical ones… is that right? :D</p>
<p>hahahah … sorry for this as the start for my reply but Coolkh … the term “advantaged” country really made my day … hahahhahahah … m sorry hope you dun take it seriously …</p>
<p>and Mollie umm well thanks for that … i mean many over here are literally sending the word out that MIT really have a quota for every country that directly depends on the size of applicant pool … well i think i got your point but does it mean that the moment our application reaches any admission officer ,it is in direct comparison with students worldwide ??? i mean it is not first compared to country then continent then area and all right ??? and yes as or the figures you provided above , does it represent the total strength of Indians studying in MIT as Undergrads or no. of students who were enrolled this year itself ?? and if latter is not the case ,how many students from India got selected this year ??</p>
Yes to the first, but no to the second. As with every other part of the admissions process, many possible factors are taken into consideration, but no single factor is the cause of any given decision. And no two applicants are exactly alike except for one thing; there are no “tiebreakers”. </p>
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As with domestic applications, international applications are first read by experienced application readers, then the admissions officers meet for a special round of international selection to pick the ~100 students they want to admit. Each application is discussed by itself during selection, and a decision is made on each application individually. No application is ever directly compared with another.</p>
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That is the total number of Indian undergraduates at MIT across all four class years, from freshman to senior. The registrar’s office does not provide further figures for each year.</p>
<p>kk … man Mollie thanks that was really helpful … now lemme get this straight … on the whole my app will depend , well umm , on the whole right ?? i mean no particular scores no particular comparisons , only my essays , my recs , and my records … right ?? </p>
<p>and on the same note i wanna ask how many summative letters and recs do/should/can i (have) to get ready … and is it necessary that they should be by the same teachers who have filled my Evals.(A and B) ?? and knowing the fact that the admission officers dun actually have time to completely review any additional docs. that i might attach , even then can i / should i attach any supplementary essay / rec / or any other relevant document apart from what its listed … i mean would it be of any help ?? … </p>
<p>Secondly , while discussing of any projects / inventions research that i have done and i wanna tell MIT about it … do i just have to have a written document describing it by my mentor or i have to send them along … becuz i dun have any problem but one of em is quite large for this purpose …</p>
<p>and lastly … since my school follow a quarter based system , so obviously the latest transcript available to me will be for my XIth grade and not of XIIth … but you have provided with the solution by asking to send predicted grades is possible … if i send them which will be based on my predicted XIIth grade final result , then what is Mid Year report meant for ?? … i mean wouldn’t u be asking the same in them ??</p>
I should just add I guess that I meant only diversity and that it comes normally with a geographical ones… is that right? :D</p>