<p>Accepted! We all got the same kind of acceptance letters. I was expecting it to be personalized...</p>
<p>No handwriting on the letters?</p>
<p>On 10,000+ letters...?</p>
<p>Accepted. Remember to keep this in perspective...college is what you make of it, and you matter the most in the equation.</p>
<p>rejected. 10 chars.</p>
<p>Anyone have screenshots from the acceptance screen? I'm just curious... ;)</p>
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<p>I was thinking about acceptance letters, although obviously there's quite a few of those too.</p>
<p>oh...oops, sorry, i didn't see the accept letter that was posted I only read the the top of page two and the waitlist/reject letter.
sorry didn't mean to offend anyone i just thought someone wanted it posted so i posted it.</p>
<p>and about the acceptance screen : its pretty scary because there is no big congratulations or anything just a letter so at first i thought i got rejected . i think they probably use the same screen for reject/waitlist/accept, just different text</p>
<p>I dunno, Stanford personalized my acceptance letter. The Dean of Admissions signed it herself and wrote a comment saying "Hooray ***-- Come west!" (I'm from the east coast)</p>
<p>I'd guess that was an SCEA Stanford admission, then? I think it's fair to say that with the smaller number of admissions during EA, it's more reasonable to consider personalization. (MIT EA admits get a couple hand-signed cards between Dec. and Mar., but that's 300 signatures, not 1300, or whatever the numbers turn out to be.)</p>
<p>No, it was regular decision... like three years ago. I still chose MIT though, because it was a better fit for me.</p>
<p>But it definitely made me feel special because I met others who didn't get a personalized acceptance letter.</p>
<p>I'm in! Takes the sting out of being rejected by Caltech yesterday! Also got into UCSD today!</p>
<p>Accepted!!!!!</p>
<p>Well... MIT... I guess this is where you and my dreams part<br>
:)</p>
<p>Wow. To think that I aktually got in makes me tremble, for real. I mean, it's so much for me to handle. There's nothing to be said that has not been said before, looking forward to meeting all the geniuses on cc that will be attending MIT with me this fall, hopefully. And the financial aid, I still have a form to submit (I could have faxed this since last week but I did not bother cos I thot I was going to be rejected). Life is fab...</p>
<p>My friend got accepted yesterday and I'm really happy for him!</p>
<p>waitlisted....</p>
<p>Maguo asked "Will the adcoms tell you any more specifics if you call to ask why you were rejected?".</p>
<p>I'd like to know this too.</p>
<p>They let you look at your application evaluation upon request if you're accepted and end up attending MIT... if you're rejected, no. There are 9000 other people who want to know, too, and it would be impossible to accomodate everyone.</p>
<p>Don't forget that a LOT of intelligent and talented people apply to MIT.</p>
<p>I don't know whether this still holds, but I imagine it would. From an entry Matt wrote in his blog on March 5, 2005:
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parent also wrote, "Do you document your decision of "why" you admitted an applicant, and "why" you rejected another? The standard response from the admissions officers upon inquiring why someone wasn't admitted, is that they have no idea - and do not know what the committe was thinking at the time! How can this be?"</p>
<p>We do not document the exact "reasons" for our decisions. While we cannot recreate deliberations on each case, all decisions are thoroughly reviewed many times according to our guidelines during the process. Usually, there's no one reason why someone wasn't admitted. For the most part, our applicants are very qualified, and unfortunately we can only admit a very small number of them.
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Alexandra wrote, "i guess not i will have to stop my addiction of seeing if the blogs are updated everyday when i get home from school, for some tidbit of information regarding decisions. my only questions is if there is any way we can find out why we were denied? if there is a reason other than space..."</p>
<p>As I wrote above, usually there isn't a "reason" why one wasn't admitted, though I can understand how it might be easier for everyone if there was just a single reason. Sorry i can't be more helpful.
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killdeerfly, I remember reading somewhere that the summary cards (which had had the comments removed anyway) were no longer being made available to matriculated students, but I can't document that now; I could be wrong.</p>