<p>aznjunior has made a point. This explains why most internationals haven’t received an email so far.</p>
<p>I would also like to know if any international students has received the email.</p>
<p>how is he making a point. peolpe are talkin bout peolpe with emails gettin rejected, but is there anyone who did not get an email and got accepted?</p>
<p>^ Perhaps this is just a function of the fact that a minority of people did not receive e-mails, and a minority of people get accepted. As in: 10% of people don’t get e-mails, 10% of people get accepted. If the two are unrelated, doesn’t that mean that 1/100 people is accepted without an e-mail? The chances that he posts about it here…well, I’m not really surprised we’re not seeing him, if he exists.</p>
<p>I am willing to put my reputation on the line here and guarantee that this so-called email flap is completely meaningless. There is no way MIT is even at the point in selection where they have separate email lists for different categories of people.</p>
<p>I realize the urge to overanalyze is strong. Please remember that you want to attend a school where logic, reason, and proof are valued above all things, and value those things yourselves.</p>
<p>haha we are logically analyzing things. we use reason to logically analyze such things. the only factor we lack is proof. </p>
<p>we understnad that MIT is not at the point of selection for all students, but there might be a certain number of students that are already cast away from the system, i.e. already rejected, and as such does not receive any email.</p>
<p>another theory is the international students theory. thus far, no international student has claimed to have received any emails from MIT. However MIT acceptance rates for international students is ~3% and thus, if the above theory holds true, the chances of international students getting an email in the first place are low. </p>
<p>calculate r for emails vs acceptance XD</p>
<p>Wild speculation is not reasonable or parsimonious. There is no evidence that there is any meaningful pattern behind the email receipts, just as there was not during EA this year when the admissions office confirmed that they’d sent emails to all applicants at the same time.</p>
<p>The logical conclusion is that your email provider, through whatever algorithms it has set up, flagged the mass email as spam and zapped it.</p>
<p>Here is the data for the mail sent about admissions decisions:</p>
<p>from MIT Admissions <a href=“mailto:admissions@mit.edu”>admissions@mit.edu</a>
to<br>
date Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 1:10 PM
subject MIT Admissions Decisions Online Sunday, March 14th
mailed-by e2ma.net</p>
<p>Here is the data for another email sent by admissions:</p>
<p>from <a href=“mailto:admissions@mit.edu”>admissions@mit.edu</a>
to<br>
date Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 8:53 PM
subject MIT Application Midyear Report
mailed-by mit.edu</p>
<p>I’ve received email mailed by both mit.edu and e2ma.net. There may or may not be a connection between the disappearing emails and the sender ID.</p>
<p>Some (all?) email providers also have preemptive spam filters that actually block/delete emails before they make it to your inbox. They can be tripped by a combination mismatched sender IDs (like <a href=“mailto:admissions@mit.edu”>admissions@mit.edu</a> with e2ma.net), keyword thresholds in the body, and other factors.</p>
<p>Most international applicants might not have received the email because:</p>
<p>(1) it was a mass email
(2) it was sent by a server (e2ma.net) other than the sender’s domain (mit.edu)
(3) it had some keywords that are often in spam emails
(4) it was sent as an image from emma ([Powered</a> By Emma | Emma Email Marketing](<a href=“http://www.myemma.com/poweredbyemma/?utm_source=PoweredBy&utm_medium=Regular]Powered”>http://www.myemma.com/poweredbyemma/?utm_source=PoweredBy&utm_medium=Regular))</p>
<p>This is all my conjecture. That may not be the case at all… but it might shed a little light on everything.</p>
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<p><em>waves</em> </p>
<p>Hi Handala! I’m an MIT Admissions Officer. </p>
<p>Receiving (or not receiving) the email could be the result of many factors - a mistaken email address, an overeager spam filter, and so forth - but it is absolutely, positively, in no way related to the actual status of your decision. I do apologize you didn’t receive it, however! </p>
<p>cgarcia is probably correct - I would wager most people simply have overactive spam filters on their gmail/yahoo/etc.</p>
<p>People, people, just have faith, get the hell off of CC, and eat popcorn until the 14th… I’m sure there’s no ‘email-conspiracy’ that we don’t know about. Besides, even if there WAS such a conspiracy, we’d never know about it because those MIT peeps are super-duper smart.</p>
<p>Now how about THAT for logic.</p>
<p>Hahahahaha “conspiracy.” :)</p>
<p>you mean that the emails were sent to international students as well?</p>
<p>Well they were suppossed to be. I haven’t heard of any international having recieved it yet though.</p>
<p>@5up3rG: sorry to hear that. 
Yeah I remember Uchi’s results releasing day was such a MESS…</p>
<p>I don’t think the email means anything. Right now I am worried about my FA app and I wonder if anyone can help.
I was applying for FA. But now my FC is about 50,000USD/year (dad got promoted and a sudden increase in salary) so I guess I can withdraw my FA app. Well I never send them ISCOF or forms like that so everything in my FA application is missing. Will it ruin my entire MIT application if FA app materials’ not complete? Anyone knows?? Thanks~!</p>
<p>Send an email to their Financial Aid Office to withdraw. I canceled my FA App as well.</p>
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<p>Absolutely not. One of the interesting consequences of MIT operating a need-blind admissions process is that the work of the admissions office and the financial aid office are essentially independent (which is not true at a lot of schools). So FA has no impact on admissions or vice versa.</p>
<p>one thing that confuses me about this whole thing is that I was deferred EA and judging from what I read here was one of the last to receive the email, but for RD on the same email account I was one of the first…</p>
<p>Don’t worry guys, Email doesn’t mean anything.</p>
<p>i just got mine today morning</p>
<p>any other international get it?</p>
<p>Here’s a thread!!</p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/massachusetts-institute-technology/878031-update-decision-date-announcement-emails.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/massachusetts-institute-technology/878031-update-decision-date-announcement-emails.html</a></p>
<p>I got it. But I can tell you, I’m not the type of student MIT likes. So Email doesn’t mean anything(or even bad news). My scores are low, and my essays are not that good. So, all international students, just relax, the application process is more imortant than your result. (I think even rejection letter is a kind of proud. When I am old, I can tell my grandson: your grandfather had applied for MIT when he was young, although the result was…) </p>
<p>So , relaxing!</p>