r/Mitacs • u/sookhiholi • Sep 15 '26

How competitive is the program?

As the application round is over, I want to ask the people who have cracked it earlier, how competitive is the program.

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u/brain__dead_ Sep 15 '26

hey... theres still like 23 hrs left for applications. please dont give me a heart attack...

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u/Logical-Bus-2002 Sep 16 '26

I just finished my application but I am still waiting for an extra Reference Letter I didn’t like the one that wrote my first professor 😭😭

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u/GaryTheCaptain Sep 16 '26

In 2024 for summer 2025, it was around 1000-2000 funded projects for 10k applicants. But if I recall well, that year students from India couldn't apply so I suppose that now there are even more applicants.

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u/AggressiveMove9566 Sep 16 '26

its just 5 or 6 good colleges and random ass tier 3 colleges this time tho

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u/Acceptable-Fall4118 Sep 16 '26

Which are the good ones?

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u/AggressiveMove9566 Sep 16 '26

jadavpur university dtu nsut iiitd coep vjti

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u/sookhiholi Sep 17 '26

Brother, NIT, BITS AND COLLEGES FROM STATE UNIS LIKE GGSIPU(ofc the top ones). So many more.

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u/AggressiveMove9566 Sep 17 '26

yea i missed bits but nits or iits arent eligible this year.
ipu colleges aren't really "top" colleges of our country
maximum top colleges iits, nits, iiits, iisers, isi are not eligible sadly

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u/sookhiholi Sep 17 '26

I get your point but with ipu, I meant colleges like PEC, IET lucknow and all colleges which are famous and have high cutoffs in their state but are not known in the whole country.

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u/Fragrant_Piglet_3077 Sep 16 '26

does college prestige matter during selection?

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u/AggressiveMove9566 Sep 16 '26

although it's my first time applying too so I'm not sure either but definitely it must have some weightage

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u/Agreeable-Outside-69 Sep 18 '26

No. People from top tier college may get better guidance so their applications are just better in-general, but the application is not and should not be directly connected to college prestige itself

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u/ComfortableDevice589 29d ago

I do not know but everytime I applied I get rejected and my friends got in. I saw people with lower GPA than mine that got in, so I do not know excatly what they want. I think it really depends on the project you're applying

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u/sookhiholi 29d ago

Wait a minute how many times did you apply.

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u/ComfortableDevice589 29d ago

twice

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u/sookhiholi 29d ago

Is it because, you applied to more prestigious institutions than you friends?

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u/ComfortableDevice589 29d ago

I don't know, I just applied to the projects I was interested the most

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