L@@K at the Class of 2015

L@@K at the Class of 2015 One thing you may have missed in the site switchover is the fact that we updated our admissions statistics and freshman class profile pages to the newest data from this past years admissions cycle. We always try to provide as much data as we can to make our process as transparent as possible. But before you get to the numbers, here are just a few of the people who help make up the MIT Class of 2015: 3 of the 4 Gold Medalists at the 2011 International Biology Olympiad  (all of them young women who rock science!) 2 of the 8 New York Times Scholars A student who was offered $100,000 to start her own company based on her researchand turned it down to come to MIT An ISEF Engineer Award Winner from rural Georgia who spent five years restoring an ancient VW Bus A Junior Olympic ski racing cork 720 throwing valedictorian from Lake Tahoe A web developer whose music search engine was featured on lifehacker The King of Potato Cannons, who is also an Athlete of the Year A high school inventor whose haptic feedback cane won the grand prize in the Popular Science National School Inventors Challenge An award winning Canadian filmmaker: br / a competitive yoyoist: br / and 1,115 other amazing individuals, each with their own story of greatness! Keep reading to learn a little bit more about the MIT Class of 2015! Gender Male 55% Female 45% Citizenship Ethnicity US Citizens Permanent Residents Number of US states represented: 46 90% African-American 8% Asian-American 27% Caucasian 37% Hispanic 15% Native-American 1% Other/No Response 1% International Citizens Number of countries represented: 59 10% Geography New England 12% Mid-Atlantic 19% South Puerto Rico 15% Midwest Plains States 12% Southwest Mountain 10% West Coast, Alaska, Hawaii 20% Abroad 13% Schooling Public School 67% Private School 17% Religious School 8% Foreign School 7% Home School 1% Number of different high schools represented: 862 Just For Fun Most Popular Boys Name Alexander Most Popular Girls Name Sarah Greatest Distance Traveled Melbourne AUS Least Distance Traveled Cambridge MA Most Represented US State California