MIT EA Rate rises 15%

Colleges & Universities Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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<p>[Some</a> Early Returns on Early Admission - NYTimes.com](<a href=“http://thechoice.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/11/12/early-admission-2011/]Some”>Some Early Returns on Early Admission - The New York Times)</p>

<p>Oh boy.</p>

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<p>Oh dear. This isn’t good >.<</p>

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<p>Wow. This sucks…</p>

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<p>So we can probably expect similar from Stanford and Yale. Oh boy, indeed.</p>

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<p>No we can’t. MIT isn’t restrictive.</p>

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<p>I believe when this was happening last year (or the year before?), it was pointed out that less schools had EA options, so more kids applied EA to MIT… not because MIT was their top choice, but because it was one of the few EA opportunities left. This means that though the admission rate for EA rose, the yield is about the same, which is what really matters. MIT doesn’t want to take more than 10% of its new class EA.</p>

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<p>^^ Schools with binding early decision programs saw similar increases.</p>

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<p>Yes, because ED programs almost always provide a noticeable boost in chances. Yale SCEA applicants dropped last year with this same trend in early applications elsewhere. That isn’t to say that the number of Yale SCEA applicants will drop this year, just that we cannot even make somewhat of an accurate prediction on the number by extrapolating EA/ED data from other schools.</p>

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<p>We’ll see what happens.</p>

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<p>rofl, this is the exact reason why I didn’t want to apply EA :P</p>

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@PiperXP
can you cite where you got the stat? In the “MIT Admissions Guide” that MIT sent out this year, it says that “we are committed to admitting no more than a third of our class through Early Action.”</p>

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<p>I think (hope) Piper meant no more than 10% of the EA applicants.</p>

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<p>Yea, I hope so as well</p>

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<p>Woops! You’re absolutely right, it’s a third. I was writing a PM to an international applicant at the time, wrong number on the brain :)</p>

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<p>oh how wonderful T____T</p>

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<p>when I first read this, I thought it said “MIT EA Admission Rate rises to 15%”…was about to fall off my chair…</p>

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<p>NYTimes updated it last night and the official increase in applications is 14.4%.</p>

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<p>@Selena731, if that happened, it would be the best day of my life :)</p>

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<p>wow, NYT has good sources. </p>

<p>and now y’all know why I’ve been so busy ;)</p>

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<p>^ I guess that post confirms the accuracy of this article.</p>