So about International Admissions...

Jimmy797
Sun, 09 Jan 2011 10:22:41 +0000

Okay so MIT has this quota for internationals, about 10% of the incoming freshman class only, so that goes for about 160 international acceptances out of about 3-4000 applicants. Not great odds.
Anyway, I had this thought about my country’s acceptances, and while I should probably be studying for my mid-terms tomorrow (especially seeing as those grades are going to MIT), I couldn’t help but post it on here.

When I was conducting my interview, my EC told me that around 30 students or so from my country apply each year, and generally, 1 or 2 get accepted. This is the norm. Now, my speculation on this: Could it possibly be a sort of competition in this case? As in, MIT accepts the one or two best students for the institute from those 30 or so applicants each year? And by best I mean best match for MIT, not by stats, so it would still fall under their ‘we don’t pit students against each other’ policy but also under their international quota policy (or country policy in this case, assuming they need diversity so 1 or 2 applicants from the country is enough [because the applicants are already so few anyway, it’s not like Asian countries where you have loads of applications])

Okay so those are my thoughts anyway… I know I might be way off though. And note that I’m only talking about my country rather than all international applicants.
What do you guys think? Possible?