My thoughts on the early admissions

mootmom
Mon, 11 Dec 2006 00:39:32 +0000

Personal observations being what they are, 10 of the 13 students admitted to MIT from my son’s class two years ago were male. All of them were white or Asian. One of them had done RSI. One of the others helped out in a lab, but it couldn’t really be considered “research”. That’s it for research, Intel, you name it.

Anecdotes are anecdotes. The people whose responses you observe here and on the blogs are a tiny subset of the 390 students admitted and the >2500 who were deferred this month.