Odds of getting into MIT differ based on gender

hebegebe
Fri, 15 Mar 2019 16:14:36 +0000

Sheesh. I thought MIT would take at least 1600 kids in total. This sucks.

So 1410 acceptances in all, and a class size of roughly 1150. If they expect to fill the class with that, that would require a yield rate of 81.6%.

For the class of 2022, they offered admission to 1464 students, and didn’t take anyone off the weight list. If they hit their ~1150 target, that would be a yield of 78.6%.

While a 3% yield increase in yield is possible, that is a notable increase. Without more data, my first suspicion is that they overshot last year and are looking to make sure they don’t this year.