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Any idea if there will be any international students given an offer from the wait list?

Yay! More good news! This seems relatively large compared to the last three years! =D

Good luck to those who were wailisted. Hope to see you in the fall!

:O

That's amazing!!!

Ah, seems I need to E-mail my update letter in addition to mailing it. Hope it's not too late to make a difference.

Oh? Coolio, it was only 60!

sweet! the waiting is almost over!! I'm ready to lose that $100 deposit for MIT. Good luck waitlistees :)

I second Samuel's encouragement :D

Thank you, Matt! Thanks for this exciting update.
So, wish myself best of luck.

good news, cross my fingers.

how many people have accepted to be on the waitlist from that 454?

@anonymous: In past years, up to 80% returned the postcard to accept a waitlist position. I don't know this year's statistic.

Thanks for all of the info. Cant sleep!

How will we find out? Is this an e-mail or a phone thing? I've been frantically checking my e-mail since this has been posted :\

Guys, how do you know whether you are a waitlistee or not? Are you emailed or something? I applied as a transfer applicant and I was not accepted.. Do I have a chance to be in the waiting list or that is the lase decision?

Plz answer me !!

Hey Matt,

well I wanted to ask few questions like -

approximately how many indian students do you all give admission to , for the doing Masters ?

- Is a transferred student given less preference over a freshmen ?

- Does the financial aid stuff changes for students who wish to do Masters from MIT ?

waiting for ur reply.................

@ Anonymous

The admissions decision will tell us if we are admitted, not admitted or wait listed.

Not Admitted/Accepted = Not wait listed either. Sorry

I just got an email! I got in!

Can someone please tell me if this means that they have chosen the first 60 or a portion of the 60?

Hello, from MIT Admissions. We wanted to take this opportunity to thank you for your patience whilst on our waitlist, and to ask for just a little more time from you. We have admitted a very small number of waitlisted students in our first round of deliberations, and we sincerely hope to admit more students from off of the list at a later point. We will know much more towards the end of May, and we’ll be in contact with you shortly.

We understand that there is a great deal of uncertainty you might be feeling now. But hold tight! In the meantime, you don’t need to do anything, unless you don’t wish to remain on the list.

Please feel free to contact us with any questions you might have, and again, thank you kindly for your patience.

Yours truly,

McGreggor Crowley

@ Anonymous

I was in contact with them and they said they did accept approximately 60 students today.

@ Patrick A
Thanks for responding. Do you know if anyone actually got a definite rejection?

@ Me

I got in too!!!

Your waitlist letter of rejection is written with such indifference that honestly you could have just sent status:deny as the body of the email. "Hello, from mit admissions", that is not even a complete sentence but rather a fragment. I am more than ready to move on to current choice of a school, however a little more thought could have been used.

Accepted! I can't believe it! Thank you soooooo much!!!!

Congrats to waitlistees who have been accepted! If it hasn't already become accessible in your myMIT page, make sure to sign the Guest Book in your home page as soon as you see one.

After you sign the guest book, you can join the facebook group for our class at http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/group.php?gid=41040127333&ref=ts ^_^

Why is the letter so confusing??????

Why is the letter so confusing??????

Congratulations for those new accepted applicants,
but guys, I want to be in touch with any of you to give me a wider picture of the criteria.. I was not accepted and I wish any of you, kindly, respond to me...

my email is mohd_06@aucegypt.edu

Congratulations again... I am really happy for you!!!

@Anonymous: The letter you reference means you are among the ~50 students still on the waitlist, as referenced in the 4th paragraph.

@Me, blaalb, Deeni: Congrats!

@anonymous: hey i'm from egypt too, but wasn't accepted, which school are you in?

@anonymous I am from American university in Cairo, which school is urs?

it is better to contact by email as we may have longer discussion..

Still can't believe I got accepted! I'm having an issue with myMIT tho. When I log on there is no reply option.

Not accepted from the waitlist.

Honestly, I'm extremely disappointed in MIT. I applied early, with a perfect GPA at one of the top schools in my state and a well-rounded application, and got deferred. Sent in an update about winning a national competition in math and got waitlisted at RA. I sent in an update and got rejected.

I've been working hard for the last three years, and I guess the school I wanted so badly to spend the next four years at has decided there's just no room for me. And frankly, I'm not too convinced that it was for the right reasons.

Good luck with your class of 2013, and good luck to everyone in it. I guess MIT will just be one of those things that could have been.

Thanks Matt. :D

How come my myMIT account doesn't say anything about my getting accepted? How am I supposed to respond to the admissions offer?

I was not accepted, and I can not deny that I was disappointed, but I have to admit that MIT's admission office and procedure is a very respected one among all that I have seen before.

Special thanks goes to Emily, for sure.

Yes. MIT really treats admissions affairs seriously. In contrast with MIT, Caltech messed up my transfer admission (about the entrance exam) and denied me much earlier than the planned time.

Guys, don't worry, your myMIT portal will have all of the correct updates within the week! It took about that long after the EAs were accepted for us, and a little less time for the RAs back in March.

Don't worry, you'll be given ample time to accept your offer of admission ^_^

So how will the "extended waitlist" work? I'm assuming that of the 60 you admitted, you're expecting a certain yield, along with the expectation of some students who switch colleges due to getting off of other college waitlists. How many below the target number (1075 students) will have to be enrolled at MIT following this first round for there to be people drawn from the waitlist again? Or will you just keep the number, even if it's below your target?

That seems like a geometric series.

-^- I second that.

Congratulations to all admitted waitlisted applicants! I hope you all enjoy and value your future MIT experience as much as I have thus far.

Best,
Ken Haggerty '11

I'm not the same person but i have the same question.
"So how will the "extended waitlist" work? I'm assuming that of the 60 you admitted, you're expecting a certain yield, along with the expectation of some students who switch colleges due to getting off of other college waitlists. How many below the target number (1075 students) will have to be enrolled at MIT following this first round for there to be people drawn from the waitlist again? Or will you just keep the number, even if it's below your target?"

how many people were admitted in the 2nd round last year?

@ Anonymous

There were 10 students admitted in the second deliberations of the wait list according to Matt McGann's blog post last year.

Hi, Guys! Is any already-enrolled student here? I am wondering if my son would be good enough for MIT enrollment.

Junior; His GPA: unweighted 3.97; weighted: 4.2

His high school is a small sized one in the mid-west. He has taken a few math contests and got No. 36 and No. 17 among 3500 and 1700 participants in our state. He is going to take SAT and ACT and the estimated score would be around 2100-2200 for SAT and 33-34 for ACT. He has taken AP tests for math, physics and chemistry and has not got results.
He is a member in a club and did some service in the church.

I would appreciate info from anybody.

An anxious mom

@Jennifer

Obviously, he should apply! Never hurts to try...

Of course I'm in that 50. Story of my life!=]