How hard is it to get accepted into MIT?
Currently, MIT’s acceptance rate is 4.1\%, which means it only accepts around 4 applicants for every 100 people that apply. A 4.1\% acceptance rate means that MIT is extremely competitive to get into. You’ll need excellent grades, test scores, essays, and letters of recommendation to even be considered.
Why is MIT so amazing?
Tellingly, its strengths lie in the fields of engineering, science and technology, and its exclusivity involving which students they accept means that only the very best make the cut. MIT’s real selling point is its expertise at transforming the buds of its students’ technology ideas into hugely successful businesses.
Did you apply to MIT just to see if you could?
Yes, I applied to MIT just to see if I could get in, and then make sure my ex-boyfriend knew all about it. I am a terrible person, blah blah.
Is 1430/2150 a bad score for MIT?
But there are a lot of people who think that it is a bad score, and there are certainly a lot of people who think you can’t get into MIT with a 1430/2150, especially if your math score is sub-700. The one thing I always had going for me was that I was very involved in the performing arts at my high school.
Is MIT a good place to major in cognitive science?
Sure, it was part of it — I knew MIT had a Brain and Cognitive Sciences department, and I knew that’s what I wanted to major in, and, hey, if one of the professors in the department wrote awesome, popular books, it sounded like a good place to be.
Can you get into MIT without being a super-genius?
Anyway. I hope this story has been at least somewhat informative… anecdotal evidence has its limitations, but clearly it is possible to get into MIT without being a super-genius, or slave to schoolwork, or world-renowned master of something frighteningly difficult. (Although I suppose that helps.)