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MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online by Chris Peterson SM '13

MIT Early Action admissions decisions for the Class of 2030 are now available in the application portal. To check your decision, login to the portal and visit your Application Status page. There, you will be able to see your decision by clicking View Update. There are no interim screens, so you should be sure you are prepared to receive your decision before you click View Update. 

This year, 11,883 students applied Early Action to the MIT Class of 2030, and as of *checks watch* right now, we have offered admission to 655. Consistent with MIT’s educational philosophy, they all pursue their own unique interests and aptitudes —  coders and choreographers, bread-bakers and bridge-builders, geologists and guitarists  — but hold in common a shared standard of rigorous academics, high character, and a strong match with MIT’s mission to use science, technology, and the useful arts to make the world a better place. We can’t wait to welcome them to campus to join the 4,561 outstanding undergraduates already enrolled at MIT. 

We deferred 7,738 applicants;⁠ these students will be reconsidered without prejudice in Regular Action, with decisions released sometime in March. If you are deferred, you are not expected to send us any new information besides the February Updates and Notes Form, which will be posted in mid-January to your application portal. We have posted more information for deferred students here; you can also read posts from bloggers who were deferred here, here, here, here, here, here, and most recently here.    

Given the competitiveness of our pool, we have also informed 2,703 students that we will not be able to offer them admission this year. This decision has been made with care, and it is final. I know this can be a difficult decision to receive, but trust me: it works out okay in the end. Take a deep breath, shake it out, and go crush the rest of your college applications (or whatever else you choose to do) this year.

The balance of our applicants —  787 —  withdrew from our process before we released their decision.  

We recognize it’s a lot of effort for all of you to apply to MIT. It’s an honor and a privilege for us to read your applications. Thank you for sharing your story with us. 

Again, congratulations to the newest members of the Class of 2030. I’ll be closing comments on this post to focus the conversations on the open threads for admitted, deferred, and not admitted students. 

All best, everyone; wishing you a healthy and happy end of 2025, and bright beginnings to 2026.