<p>A slim acceptance letter would not be sexy at all. The letter culminating four years of hard work should have some heft to it.</p>
<p>Also: Did yall read on Matt's blog about how EA apps are up about 10% to 3098 this year?</p>
<p>3098?</p>
<p>man, that means more competition =[</p>
<p>Ooo, I read that in the tech today :o</p>
<p>yes... that sentence poured cold water onto my head.</p>
<p>Yeah I don't like that statistic at all. Sooooo when the first letters come in, we've got to make a fancy thread with formal decisions...who's going to make it? The first person who gets a letter?</p>
<p>correction: the first person who gets the ACCEPTANCE letter</p>
<p>The EA roster thread will do.</p>
<p>But it's so full :p</p>
<p>We will mail all the letters on the same day. We'll let you know once they've been mailed.</p>
<p>Oh, and there's nothing small about the acceptance letters. That's all I'm going to say.</p>
<p>I"m quite worried. : 3</p>
<p>God next week is gonna be anal. I've gotta run cause i'm starting track training this weekend, but i'm gonna get set on a schedule of run RIGHT after school 7th period (2:10). Finish by 3 (low mileage week...first week back). Go home...sit in room on CC...see mail truck coming down the road. RUN out to box. Flip through Mail.</p>
<p>Repeat as needed.</p>
<p>Dude - Ben. You guys should send shirts to all the Admits. Then they can show off MIT pride the second they're admitted.</p>
<p>I think I have a decent chance of getting my letter on Monday 12. I'm going to hitch a ride home after school because the bus is really slow. If the mail isn't there by then (it usually is), I'm going to get on my bike and stalk the mail truck (There's snow and ice on the street, and the temperature is in the 20s). If it's an affirmative answer, I'll roll around recklessly in the snow. If it's negative, well, I really don't know what I'm going to do.</p>
<p>I have an MIT shirt ready.</p>
<p>im probably getting my letter on the 15th....</p>
<p>if i get in, then i'll be happy. if i dont get in, then i'll be sad.</p>
<p>how is a slim letter sexy?!!!!!!!</p>
<p>Each person has a path and if our's isn't MIT then so be it. We have to search and follow what we dream about, what were passioniate about; that's what lead us all to MIT, right? Well, we will see, and I know that in either acceptance or rejection we should all be moved at who MIT will bring to Cambridge. I personally believe that MIT strives to bring people together and redefine "higher education" beyond phenomenal academics. That brings me comfort when I think of the possibility of rejection.</p>
<p>Plan for the worst, hope for the best.</p>
<p>(P.S. I am a fan of the t-shirt idea)</p>
<p>So what kind of acceptance celebration are you guys planning (assuming the best case)? </p>
<p>I'll find out when I come home during lunch to check the mail. First I'm gonna read the letter a few more times... then read any attatchments. I'll pinch myself to make sure I'm really awake. My Mom will know immediately from the look on my face, and I'll come in here to post the decision on CC before going back to school and adding my name to The Wall. (In my AP physics class each person is tacking his/her name on the bulletin board along with schools that they've been accepted to... it's a tradition.)</p>
<p>I haven't really decided on what to do after school. It really depends on the day of the week it is, since I work several days after school.</p>
<p>If I don't get in, it will probably play out about the same except with opposite emotions and I won't get to add my name to The Wall.</p>
<p>if i get in i'll read the letter and ask my mom or somone else to read it for me to make sure i got in for real. Then the day after school i'll just say i got into Massachusettes state tech to everyone until they figure out or don't figure out i got in then i'll tell them the truth. Too bad MIT doesn't work out like harvard which i could call University of MA-Cambridge. But then i will fail a math or some quiz and notify all my teachers and counselor.</p>
<p>AAAAH!!!</p>
<p>Wow, reading Ben's entry today: the part about having hundreds more tentatively admittances than reality can allow is most cynically disheartening. I can't feel my toes when I imagine myself being in the tentatively admit pile but falling short of final admit mailing list. And I live in Texas and it isn't cold here at all! Well, moderately (compared to... South, South Texas anyway).</p>
<p>I am feeling rather reckless!</p>
<p>I propose we guess the admit rate for people on this board. Kind of like estimating the number of jellybeans in a jar. I'm going to be optimistic and say [out of the 30 or so names on the EA roster] 12 or 40% will be accepted EA. Winner wins a prize... uh... well, hopefully, they will already be accepted. </p>
<p>John Galt 40%</p>
<p>Watch Ben jump in and say 0% and we all... I don't know. I would just sigh. But I'm a dark horse anyway,</p>
<p>John Galt 40%
Hamster 25%</p>
<p>...I'm a pessimist.</p>
<p>Disheartening indeed, for us too. As you'll see if you read my blog from this time a year ago, it's a theme that repeats every year. I guess that's just what happens when you have a really low admit rate and your applicant pool is so self-selecting and awesome.</p>
<p>But keep the faith - as that entry also says, no one has been deferred or rejected yet! Decisions are never final until the Dean says so.</p>