<p>How do they evaluate re-applicants? Will the criteria be more rigorous than ordinary applicants? Thanks.</p>
<p>Supposedly you'll be re-evaluated "from scratch" without regard to any prior application or previously submitted materials.</p>
<p>Thanks. They haven't deleted my former account thus I cannot register a new one yet..</p>
<p>I'm sure you'll be evaluated from scratch, but folklore has it that successful re-applications after a rejection are as rare as hen's teeth. I've only known a few people who have tried it, and none has had any success. Chances are, the same people who evaluated your application last year will be evaluating it this year, and chances are they'll have the same general reaction. Unless you've cured cancer or something in the interim.</p>
<p>Also, if they recognize you -- and probably they will -- regardless of policy there has to be a psychological bias in favor of confirming the prior decision. I'm sure it's hard enough to reject to many good applicants, that when you come to a good applicant you've already rejected, the tendency is to breath a sigh of relief and say "Well, I already made this decision, do I don't have to agonize about it."</p>
<p>That guy with the motorcycle version of the segway looking thing got in the second time he applied after getting waitlisted
Incoming</a> frosh numero 'uno' on invention list - MIT News Office</p>
<p>I think JHS is mostly right, but I do think the odds are good that a re-applicant would be read by different readers the second time around -- there are a lot of readers, and applications are distributed randomly, so at least a few of the readers are likely to be different.</p>
<p>I do think it's difficult to get in as a re-applicant unless you've done something in the intervening year, but in an application strength sort of way more than a reader biases sort of way.</p>
<p>oh yeah! Happy Anniversary Mollie! (2 days late... but wtv) =)</p>
<p>back to 18.02 pset =(</p>
<p>Thanks. I feel that the gap-year is more than meaningful to me. I completed my research, along with my reading list.</p>