US Top 50 · Cambridge, Massachusetts · Extreme Reach

Massachusetts Institute of Technology麻省理工学院

US News 2026 #2 (US News 2026 National Universities)

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At a glance

Massachusetts Institute of Technology is a Extreme Reach school on our readiness map — that label describes how demanding the preparation is for international-school applicants, not an admission probability.

Based in Cambridge, Massachusetts (US Top 50, US News 2026 #2 per US News 2026 National Universities), it reviews both AP and A-Level curricula, so the question is not which system you study but how strong your core-subject evidence is.

The benchmarks and admit-case chart below come from anonymized application records of Chinese international-school students, aggregated with percentile ranges to protect every individual case.

Case benchmarks (anonymized aggregate)

Median GPA3.92P25-P75: 3.923.96
Median SAT1545P25-P75: 15401560
Median AP count11P25-P75: 411

Ranges use P25/P75 percentiles instead of extremes so a single outlier cannot skew the picture.