<p>This may be an odd question, but what does MIT (or any school) do with an applicant's files after he/she is admitted/rejected/decide not to go. I'm assuming they keep the files of the admits....but do they throw away the others? </p>
<p>I'm just curious...hahaha :)</p>
<p>We keep the E3 (reader summary) cards on file forever but everything else gets destroyed at some point. I'm not exactly sure when that happens... after a year or two I believe.</p>
<p>Everything else gets killed a year after admission. I requested my file 1.5 years after I entered, and only had my interview sheet and E3 to look at... :-(</p>
<p>We can request them when we get there? I know I signed my recommendations so that I can't see them, but could we see the other things?</p>
<p>yes, you can look at your app and see adcom comments, read your interview assessment, etc., but only up to a year after you get here. they won't let you keep it, or make copies, but you can read it.</p>
<p>As far as I know (from my girlfriend at MIT who actually got the E3) they now cover up the adcom comments because of their liability if the comments mention teacher recs, which are confidential. They used to cover up just those parts of the comments but apparently this got to be too much work. So now you can only see the check marks they gave you and which category on the 1-5 scale you fell into for the attributes they rate.</p>
<p>This is all hearsay, but what I was told.</p>
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As far as I know (from my girlfriend at MIT who actually got the E3) they now cover up the adcom comments because of their liability if the comments mention teacher recs, which are confidential. They used to cover up just those parts of the comments but apparently this got to be too much work. So now you can only see the check marks they gave you and which category on the 1-5 scale you fell into for the attributes they rate.
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<p>This is all correct. Thanks Ben.</p>