MIT Class of 2028 Official Thread

Daugter accepted. She wants to pursue Electrical Engineering.

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Congrats! My daughter was also accepted; she will study chemical engineering. I guess we need to start calling it Course 10.

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is she a recruit? or what did she get likely letter for?

No. I think Columbia sent likely letters to some of the RD applicants both last Thursday and today.

She hasn’t decided yet - she is too excited now. We visited Columbia before and one of her best friends, who is also our neighbor, is studying at Columbia. But she likes Boston a little more than New York.

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My brother got accepted. We are international from Rwanda. He got accepted in early decision. He got full financial aid which will also cover, flight tickets, visa expenses
, I few words it will cover everything.

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Daughter accepted, thinking math or cs

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My daughter was also accepted. Intended major is architecture.

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Could you share the stats please?

Could you share the stats please, if comfortable?

Everyone has the same stats (if by stats, you mean GPA & ACT/SAT.). That’s not how MIT decisions are made. (IMO as an outside observer. I’m not an AO.)

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Agree with @curiousme2, the stats for all are in that highest range and MIT is a high reach for everyone, no matches here.

MIT is fabulously transparent about their stats. Here are last years: Admissions statistics | MIT Admissions

Always with a sense of humor:

Just for fun

Most popular names Daniel and Katherine

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From this thread, it seems more girls are accepted than boys. Interesting!

It’s basically 50/50 (I say basically because there’s some small margin of trans/nonbinary/gender non-conforming/did not tell us students).

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Agree, but while almost every admitted student has 4.0 UW GPA and top SAT/ACT, i wanted to get a sense of the ‘rigor’ indicator of the admitted students. It seems to me many/most admitted students have over 10 or 12 APs, with many having completed some advanced level Math courses (Multi variable calculus, etc.), perhaps to signal their ability/potential. The stats published by MIT don’t seem to me to be informative on the ‘rigor’ metric imo.

Hope many comment on this so I can confirm/correct my understanding about typical level of rigor of admitted students.

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It’s less about rigor and more about how you took advantage of the opportunities available to you. If the highest level and hardest math class that was available to an applicant was precalc and they took it and got an A both semesters, it says something about an applicant. If they went above and beyond and self-studied calc BC, it says even more about that applicant.

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That’s because you cannot compare across different schools. One school may have only three AP classes total. Another might have 25. Therefore, the number of AP classes a student took is meaningless without knowing what was available to them.

Suffice it to say that admitted students took the highest rigor that was available to them.

ETA, if you haven’t yet read this blog, I highly recommend it. Yes, it’s from 2010, but I firmly believe it still holds true:

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I hear that but is there data supporting that? There will be so many students who would have done this, imo.
At some point MIT needs to compare students across different contexts to select a few. It seems to me (perhaps erroneously) -from anecdotal data on CC- that demonstrating higher rigor/ advanced courses is almost a necessary condition (there are exceptions) to getting admitted; the local context/opportunities at your HS can only take you so far. E.g., all else equal, would MIT look the same way at an applicant whose school offers Multi-variable calc as the highest Math course and student goes beyond, taking Linear Algebra on his own, versus one in your example (school offers precalc, and student goes beyond by self-studying for Calc BC)? I feel like one with an A in Linear Algebra may have an advantage or greater likelihood of being selected, all else equal.

Thoughts?

My thought is that these are great questions
for another thread. Let’s table the conversation in this thread, though.

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Can anyone confirm if the MIT ID on the admission notice email letter should be the same as the application ID? Thanks.