According to theMIT admissions statisticsfor the Class of 2028,applicants who applied early action had a fairly significant advantage over students who applied at the regular deadline(a 5.3% acceptance rate for early action applicants vs a 2.6% acceptance rate for regular action applicants + those ...
Eliminating tuition dramatically increases the acceptance rate vs offers extended which would result in too many students. To maintain the numbers at the previous levels one would obviously then have to make fewer offers to more carefully picked people. Theoretically the school then ends up with ...