Do past admits get you admitted?

skieurope
Wed, 26 Jul 2017 12:12:57 +0000

My question is, how much weight, do past admits, or past non-admits, have on your application?

Zero. You will be judged on your credentials, not anyone else’s.

Are you more likely to get in if students of the past have gotten in?

No. Neither MIT, nor any of its peers, has a min/max/quota per HS.

no one from my high school has ever been admitted to MIT.

No one from my DD’s school ever was admitted to Stanford. Can’t explain why.

Don’t buy into the conspiracy theories. It’s exceedingly rare that a HS is blackballed. Instead, it’s simple math. There are 37K HS’s in the US, plus a number of international applicants and home schooled applicants. Stanford accepts approx 2000 kids per year and MIT accepts 1500. So many many HS’s will have no students accepted to those schools.