25% rise in EA applications

molliebatmit
Sat, 22 Nov 2008 22:42:45 +0000

It’s usually the space issue that’s mentioned first. MIT supports so many students (even students who pay full fare are being heavily subsidized by the Institute) that I’m not sure a few extra students either way would make a big impact financially.

I mean, if MIT adds a lot more students, then you start having to worry about faculty-student ratio and about having lotteries for popular classes or majors. But this would take more than a handful of students; it only takes a handful of extra students to cause some serious pain in the housing system.