Are sports a good ec for MIT?

molliebatmit
Fri, 29 Oct 2010 06:37:11 +0000

Absolutely not.

Don’t confuse correlation with causation – many MIT admits did science/math-related ECs in high school, but that doesn’t indicate that those sorts of ECs are favored by the admissions office, or that it’s difficult to get in not having done them.

About 20% of the student body at MIT plays a varsity sport, and you can bet that those people were strongly dedicated to that sport in high school. Even more students played a sport in high school, but didn’t continue playing it at the varsity level in college.