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Well yes, but I think you see my point, which is that MIT could make it a lot easier for a certain kind of applicant to get in if it wanted to. And I'm pretty sure a certain kinds of people really would go to MIT over any other school if they got in. For instance, quite a few EECS majors I know. Of course there are other top schools, but you can imagine quite a few top engineering students would find it hard to reject an MIT admissions offer.
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I don't have the data available on how many people applied to at least two top-tier schools with the intention of going to MIT if accepted, but perhaps someone else does. It strikes me that many people state other schools such as Harvard, Yale, Stanford, CMU, etc. as their first choices, even if they apply to MIT as well.