Graduate admission

[pgbovine]

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Well, in the specific case of EECS, I think getting into grad school at MIT is substantially easier for MIT undergrads than for undergrads at at any other school. That’s entirely because of the existence of the EECS MEng program which, while not a walk in the park to get into, is almost certainly substantially easier to get into than the SM EECS program is to get into for an outside candidate, not least because the MEng program has no fixed slots, and hence you are not really ‘competing’ for a spot.

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<p>I think you are comparing apples-to-oranges, sakky. AFAIK, there is no EECS Master’s degree program at MIT that non-MIT students can apply to; the M.Eng. program, as you correctly said, is for MIT undergrads only. The only way for a non-MIT undergrad to get an SM in EECS from MIT is to be admitted into the Ph.D.-only program, earn an SM along the way after 2 years or so, and then drop out of the program. Thus, there is no such thing as comparing how hard it is to get into MIT for Master’s for MIT and non-MIT undergrads. There is no ‘backdoor’ since there is not even a front-door (no regular way to admit to a Master’s program from the outside).</p>

<p>As for admissions into the Ph.D. program, being an MIT undergrad does not by any means guarantee your admissions … it is a very competitive pool for all applicants. Hope that clears things up :)</p>