MIT --- weird admission numbers!

vn1997
Mon, 23 Feb 2015 06:45:18 +0000

“Seriously. I would think an Engineer would be more adept at simple mathematical modeling.”

I think you’ve missed the point I’m trying to make! I perfectly understand that there may be more admissions than graduations, etc. But when I tried recreating the number of admitted students through an assumption that there were 3 in each year initially, I ended up with a negative number of students admitted. (And no initial assumption gave me reasonable numbers)

Basically, this means that there is such a HUGE difference between the number of admits and the number of graduates, that the only way to end up with the given number is to actually remove students.

If MIT decides to admit just one student from India this year, I’ll be the last person complaining! That’s not the point of this post at all.