Hey there, I’m gonna be part of 2026 class. I’m international student, from Italy, and now, in my 3rd year (freshman- junior) year I got around a 80/100 of GPA (in Italy). I was wondering if it’s enough to get immatriculate in MIT (it’s gonna be way higher than this) or if it’s low. Lemme know
Even accounting for differences in grading standards, it’s low for MIT. Keep in mind that international acceptance rate is about 2% for international applicants, do your application needs to be stellar, including high marks in the required standardized testing.
To be accepted at MIT, you’d need to be one of the top students in your country.
is GPA so important? By the way, even if I’m not 100/100, I thought they were looking for discipline, focus, and talent. So I thought they were not looking for some numbers (in certain cases they doesn’t mean anything, or they’re not decisive)… Obv, I’m gonna attend 2 other years of high school, so I’mma be able to improve my GPA.
so if I’m not one of the top student due to other factors they’re not even considering me?
They are looking for kids with the GPA AND the talent, discipline, etc. MIT gets so many applicants that they can easily find a group that fulfills both criteria and still have people they need to reject.
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Are you friends with the Provost?
They will evaluate and consider your application. But the odds of acceptance are very low.
So my probabilities to get accepted in without having a 95-100% are generally low? Even if I’m a smart and logical kid with a critical and divergent mind?
Yes
They are. Plus high GPA. Plus high SAT scores. Plus strong essays, recommendations, and activities.
Again, the international acceptance rate is 2%, so the successful applicants will have stellar applications.
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This describes the vast majority of MIT’s applicants, yet only 4% of them are accepted (and even fewer, if you’re international, as others have pointed out).
Shoot your shot. Why not? But have a back up plan.
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Your probabilities with a 95-100% are very low
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So I’m just supposed to have a 4.0 GPA or 100%?
May you explain me how is a SAT test?
You are basically asking a question no one can answer. Take some time to read through the posts re MIT or any other schools you are interested. It’s not that you can’t/won’t get in. It’s just because so many people have MIT as their dream school and space is limited.
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THIS. Please understand that MIT gets thousands of applications from extremely well qualified students with just perfect GPAs and very high standardized test scores, and also other things on their applications that scream…MIT. And the very vast majority of these students get rejected from MIT.
Apply if you want to…but if you want to come to the U.S. for college, you need to start NOW to research other colleges where you have a better chance of acceptance.
So you mean MIT just follows politics of excellent GPAs and generally they look at numbers in order to result as one of the best colleges in US?
You are not reading all these posts clearly. MIT wants strong applicants across the board. This means strong GPAs, strong test scores, strong LOR, strong essays, strong ECs…the works.
And the acceptance rate for international students is 2%…meaning 98% get rejected.
Apply and see. Perhaps there will be something in your application that will jump out at the adcoms.
But have other options also.
If you are completing your junior year of high school now…won’t you be in the HS graduation class of 2025?