Does it hurt your chances of getting into MIT if you are from a jock school ?

Colleges & Universities Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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<p>Ok, I’ve been comparing how many students from 3 local schools get into HYPSM. The schools ( A,B,C) are all within 10-15 miles of each other. All three are large (700+) suburban schools, have identical demographics and similar academic achievements (AP scholars, National merit etc). However, each year at least one or more students from A & B get admitted to each of HYPSM, but very few people from school C ever get admitted into HYPSM. Those student from C who are admitted are all URMs or get in for sports. Take for example MIT, in the last 5 years only two students have been admitted to MIT - both URMs. School C is well known for its sports, and is considered the top school in the state for athletics esp football. </p>

<p>Does it hurt your changes at MIT if you happen to be from an athletic school ? Do admission officers have a bias against students from these schools unless they are being recruited for sports ?</p>

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<p>No, and it’s somewhat unlikely that MIT would even be aware of a high school’s reputation for athletics. Further, MIT doesn’t recruit for sports in the sense that division I schools do, so it’s not as though students from that school are being admitted only for their athletic talents.</p>

<p>It’s considerably more likely that the “effect” you’re observing is due simply to a random distribution of admits and the small numbers of admits involved, or that students from school C are not applying to HYPSM in the same numbers as students from the other schools.</p>