<p>Wow…its getting so competitive everywhere…good luck everyone!</p>
<p>Well, if MIT is still going to admit ~600 students early, that means that the acceptance rate should be around 9.23% which is only around 1.15% less than last year’s acceptance rate of 10.38%.</p>
<p>I also heard the UG admit rate is going up due to increase in dorm room capacity.</p>
<p>That would be quite fantastic.</p>
<p>According to MIT themselves, they plan on increasing their undergraduate class size by 250 over the next couple years, starting with an increase of 80 students in the class of 2015. The planned reopening of Maseeh Hall due to the 24 million dollar donation of Fariborz Maseeh is the reason. If you want to read the article, [MIT</a> alumnus gives $24M to expand the Institute?s undergraduate student body](<a href=“http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2010/undergrad-exp-maseeh-0908.html]MIT”>MIT alumnus gives $24M to expand the Institute’s undergraduate student body | MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology)</p>
<p>Still, I feel like they’d have to take accept about 70 extra people EA in order to have the same acceptance rate as last year. I mean, they are increasing their student body by 80 but I highly doubt they’ll be willing to take an extra 70 people EA.</p>
<p>Maybe they’ll take all 80 EA. Maybe they will take them all RD.</p>
<p>We really won’t know.</p>
<p>Usually they take around one third of the class early, so I would assume they would take around one third of the new 80 early, so an increase of around 25 to 30 early admits.</p>
<p>kidaace-
Sorry, this is kind of a pet peeve of mine, but if you are going to say “~600” then why bother going to 2 decimal places? If the number is 601 and not 600, then the percentage rises to 9.24%, making nearly a 1% difference in your change in admit rate.
Just saying…</p>
<p>dunno if y’all saw this from the tech today: </p>
<p>[Early</a> action applications on the rise - The Tech](<a href=“http://tech.mit.edu/V130/N54/earlyapplications.html]Early”>http://tech.mit.edu/V130/N54/earlyapplications.html)</p>
<p>
</p>
<p>I will say that Joanna is somewhat wrong about Questbridge. Questbridge isn’t for URMs, it’s for poor kids, and we like Questbridge because the application helps those with really messy socioeconomic contexts bring the full details to light in a way our application isn’t designed to do. </p>
<p>That said, yes, Stu (via the Tech) basically confirmed everything others have said.</p>
<p>Did see that, actually. </p>
<p>Should we expect to see the EA acceptance rate dip below 10% as a result?</p>
<p>^ Would not be surprised :'(</p>
<p>not sure what the EA admit rate will be to be completely honest. we don’t generally plan those things, they sort of happen and then we make them work.</p>
<p>e: let me explain what i mean. it’s not that we don’t ‘plan’ things as much as we don’t say ‘well we can only accept exactly 538 people in early action for an admit rate of 9.8754 percent.’ we let the process play as it should, and then we make sure that it is reasonable. e.g. we’re not going to come out of EA with a 20% admit rate nor a 2% admit rate. </p>
<p>we’ll take care of you all, i promise :)</p>
<p>This is the thing about MIT - You’ve got Chris communicating to potential students that they understand this issue; there’s a character and “personableness” (if that’s a word) that I think is unique among top tier schools. Stay classy - and friendly, MIT…</p>
<p>Would not be surprised if the EA decisions come out as late as Dec 20th this year</p>
<p>What makes you say that?</p>
<p>Applications increased by 14.4% while the number of people working in the admissions department probably remained relatively constant, so either they spend less time reading applications, or they push the decisions release date back.</p>
<p>Or they have less buffer time between decision date and release date :)</p>
<p>That would be the other option, but I would assume that decisions are released as soon as they are all finished with nearly no buffer time. Now we just need somebody in admissions to tell us the date.</p>
<p>Educated guess:</p>
<p>We will know the date the week of December 6th. Decisions will be released the week of December 13th.</p>