How will the pandemic affect MIT admission this year?

curiousme2
Sun, 30 Aug 2020 03:46:58 +0000

skieurope:

87 students deferred enrollment but MIT did not go to the wait list to fill those spots. So my guess is that they are looking at the class of 2024 plus 2025 combined to equal twice their target class size of ~1110. So I don’t expect the number of acceptances to drop by much.. However applications may increase due to test optional, leading to a lower acceptance rate.

I haven’t seen MIT publicize their number of sophomores who took a LOA this year, and will end up in the class of 2024 (instead of 2023.) I suspect that number is large enough to account for MIT not going to their waitlist this year.

I’m hoping the class of 2024 doesn’t end up too large in the future, to afford those students the usual opportunities.