MIT Admissions process

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Do they first have a cut just looking at academics and things to cut out anybody who is not academically proficient for MIT

Yes, but very few people are cut at this stage – it’s a cut looking for people who are very clearly not qualified. </p>

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then shave it off further with cutting people who did poorly on extra-curriculars and other factors other then academics.

No.</p>

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is it throwing darts or what… Do they seperate you into ethnic groups and pick their set percentage from there. Example: around 18% hispanics, so they group the Hispanics who passed the first cuts and pick 180 from there by throwing darts?

Also no.</p>

<p>The MIT admissions process is discussed pretty extensively and transparently on the admissions webpage:

Once your application is complete, it will first be read by a senior admissions officer who will consider your application in a holistic manner, within its proper context. Strong applications will then be evaluated by additional admissions officers, who will summarize it at length for the committee.</p>

<p>These summaries, along with your entire application, will then go to the selection committee, where multiple groups of different admissions staff and faculty members will weigh in. At least a dozen people will significantly discuss and debate an application before it is placed in the admit pile.</p>

<p>This is all very intentional: committee decisions ensure that every decision is correct in the context of the overall applicant pool, and that no one individual’s bias or preferences or familiarity with a given case has any chance of swaying a decision unfairly.</p>

<p>Our process is a student-centered process, not a school or region centered process. This means that we do not read your application along with other students from your school or region to compare you against each other; each applicant stands on their own. We have no quotas by school, state, or region. You are not at any disadvantage if other excellent students from your school or area are also applying.

There are also no quotas for particular ethnicities or other groups – you will not be read with others from your ethnic group.</p>