Getting into grad school at MIT (Aero/Astro)?

samolyet144
Thu, 19 Jun 2008 23:11:49 +0000

Actually, I ran accross something called “MIT reports to the president” that show the breakdown for enrollment, research, admission…etc. for each department. Actually the Aero/Astro admissions rate fell from 49% to 41% last year. Seems like a pretty dramatic drop but i guess with the cyclical nature of the aerospace industry this translates to diminished availability of funds to support students. Anyway, I also noticed on the Aero dept. website that more than half of students in course 16 go on to grad school. So, I bascially calculated using the data from report that the acceptance rate last year was 35% for non-MIT students. Of course, I assumed that 100% of the 50% of the course 16 seniors got in last year and chose MIT , that no other MIT students applied to Aero, and that no other MIT students applied after working in industry for a few years. So, it seems MIT students might only constitute a small fraction of all students applying (28/319) for admission after all. In any event, it still proves it is pretty difficult to get in.