<p>As we were discussing in another thread, there are about 100 spots in the MIT CS program, and they get somewhere over 2000 applications every year. So even with a strong academic background, it’s challenging to get in.</p>
<p>It’s not really much easier, generally speaking, to get into MIT as a grad student than it is to get in as an undergrad – it’s perhaps even harder, because you do have to keep up an outstanding academic record as an undergraduate, which is not as easy to do as keeping up an outstanding academic record in high school.</p>