Final thing (I could be totally wrong btw): this guy himself from MIT estimates from MIT's data that the yearly graduate admit to EECS at MIT is likely larger than 100 (according to MIT's own website, there are currently 700 PhD students in EECS - HUGE!): https://www.quora.com/How-many-PhD-students-do-Stanford-EE-MIT-EECS-and-Berkeley-EECS-admit-each-year-respectively As it currently stands, I only see 2 "alleged" admissions to MIT EECS and one defo BS MIT EECS rejection. Given that EECS is super popular, there should be much more response than that by now. If we look just a few days ago, there are much more admissions for Material Science, which I assume is a less popular program than EECS. The current numbers just look weird to me ^^