<p>Doesn’t matter in the slightest Dad.</p>
<p>There were 7 students from my son’s senior class last year who were accepted EA, and pretty much every one of them had also applied EA to other equally excellent schools. MIT does not gauge your interest based on applying EA. You just get your answer earlier (unless you’re deferred to the RD pool.)</p>
<p>(Ooops! Sorry Olo/Timur, we cross-posted. 
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