Odds of Admission

lowdenf23c
Fri, 24 Feb 2012 09:17:57 +0000

Thank you for your informative responses…
moonman676 - you’re absolutely right about patience being the best approach, though patience is often an aspirational goal rather than a daily practice :)

dogod11 - good point about the 2100-2400 range. One imagines that anyone who has achieved those scores, has the drive and intelligence to make it through four years of higher education at MIT. Then it’s a case of sculpting a class.

MITChris - thank you for providing the link to that blog post. Most informative. It’s a natural tendency, I guess, to try to describe (and derive) as much as we can with numbers, but there are obvious limitations to that approach. As the blog post makes most persuasively. Still…one always like to try to discern patterns. OMG…I just calculated that MIT admitted females in 2011 at a 16% rate and males at a 7.6% rate!!! Can’t wait to tell my daughter!!!

No blood, no foul. :)

regards,

lowdenf23c