How important are the MIT essays?

superbowser12
Sun, 08 Jan 2017 00:48:00 +0000

They get about 18k applicants each year where each applicant can write up to 950 words in JUST the essays. That’s up to 17100000 words not counting the rec letters and other stuff.

Bonus fun calculations: the average person reads between 250-300 WPM so if we assume they read at about 275 WPM then that means it will take 62181.82 minutes to read every word. There are 1440 minutes in a day. That means if someone were to sit down and read every word of every essay nonstop they wouldn’t be done for 43 days.

… so yeah I think they’re important. Also because every resource I’ve seen about admissions says it is lol.