MIT acceptance rate and admissions statistics
MIT admitted 1,334 of 29,281 first-year applicants in its 2025-26 Common Data Set, an official acceptance rate of 4.6%. Every number below comes from the college’s own Common Data Set, each year linked to its document; a figure the college leaves blank says “Not published”, and the notes at the foot of the page say where a total is the sum of rows the college printed.
What did admitted applicants have? How to get into MIT counts the grades, scores and activities they posted.
MIT acceptance rate by year
| CDS year | Applied | Admitted | Acceptance rate | Enrolled | Yield |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-26 | 29,281 | 1,334 | 4.6% | 1,152 | 86.4% |
| 2024-25 | 28,232 | 1,284 | 4.5% | 1,106 | 86.1% |
| 2023-24 | 26,914 | 1,291 | 4.8% | 1,092 | 84.6% |
Acceptance rate is admitted divided by applied; yield is enrolled divided by admitted. Both are computed by Aristo Scholars from the two counts printed beside them.
Early decision at MIT
Early decision counts: Not published. MIT’s Common Data Set prints no early decision applicant or admit counts (section C21) for any year shown.
MIT waitlist
MIT SAT and ACT scores
What MIT says matters in admission
In section C7 each college rates its own admission factors as Very Important, Important, Considered or Not Considered. These are the factors MIT rated in the top two tiers.
- 2025-26
- Very important: Character/personal qualities
- Important: Rigor of secondary school record, Academic GPA, Standardized test scores, Application essay, Recommendations, Interview, Extracurricular activities, Talent/ability
- 2024-25
- Very important: Character/personal qualities
- Important: Rigor of secondary school record, Academic GPA, Standardized test scores, Application essay, Recommendations, Interview, Extracurricular activities, Talent/ability
- 2023-24
- Very important: Character/personal qualities
- Important: Rigor of secondary school record, Academic GPA, Standardized test scores, Application essay, Recommendations, Interview, Extracurricular activities, Talent/ability
MIT testing policy for students applying in 2026-27
Required: 'We require the SAT or the ACT for both prospective first-year and transfer students.' The ACT writing and science sections and the SAT essay are not required.
From MIT’s admissions site, read 2026-11-05. Policies change; the college’s page is the authority.
How these numbers were read
MIT publishes its Common Data Set as web pages. MIT offers early action, not early decision, so C21 has no early decision counts.
MIT acceptance rate questions
- What is the MIT acceptance rate?
- MIT's Common Data Set for 2025-26 reports 29,281 first-year applicants and 1,334 admitted, an acceptance rate of 4.6%. It was 4.5% in 2024-25 and 4.8% in 2023-24.
- What SAT scores do MIT students have?
- In 2025-26, the middle half of enrolled first-year students who submitted the SAT scored 1520 to 1570, and ACT submitters scored 34 to 35. 83.0% of enrolled students submitted an SAT score.
- How many students get off the MIT waitlist?
- In 2025-26, MIT offered 561 applicants a place on the waitlist; 468 accepted one, and 10 were admitted from it.
- Does MIT require the SAT or ACT for students applying in 2026-27?
- Required: 'We require the SAT or the ACT for both prospective first-year and transfer students.' The ACT writing and science sections and the SAT essay are not required.
Applying to MIT?
An acceptance rate describes the whole pool, not one student. A Specialist can read your student’s file against what MIT says it weighs.
Source: MIT Common Data Set, sections C1, C2, C7, C9 and C21, each year linked above, read 2026-11-05. Aristo Scholars is not affiliated with MIT. All official acceptance rates