EA MIT, Chance ME! I return the favor

collegealum314
Wed, 07 Oct 2009 17:22:35 +0000

MIT and many others use EA, at least in part, as a means of filling their slotted “needs” as such there are alot of athletes, diversity cases and other special admits in EA. Nothing like that jumped out at me from your brag sheet. You appear competitive for RD though. Good luck.



MIT doesn’t recruit athletes like the ivy league. If it did, it would have no room for anyone else–since MIT fields more teams than any other university except Harvard. In other words, it’s not looking to fill spots per se. It is more that being well-rounded is a plus, whether or not a person participates on a team.

And I don’t know if they target “diversity cases” in the EA. We don’t have any special admits, if you mean legacy or “developmental” ($$$$$) admits.
Beware of making conclusions on a limited sample size.