If you got deferred by MIT for ED. Are there anything you can do to increase your chance for the regular decision?
No. The application is already submitted. All you can do is hope you get in. Make sure you have some solid affordable schools on your list.
Deferred students - along with RD applicants and EA admitted students - are required to submit a February Update, with mid-year grades. The update may be a formality in many cases, but it is an opportunity to show continued interest and activity. Anything you can do to show continued progress will be a positive.
While the majority of deferred students do not get admitted in the RD round, many do - MIT Admissions clearly believes you are qualified, they just didn’t have enough spots to commit one early. The blogs have many examples of students who were deferred EA and admitted RD. Keep your options open and certainly have other options, but don’t despair, either.
The best you can do would be to keep up whatever good work you are doing now. Getting admitted to MIT is a matter of how you have challenged yourself over your entire high school program and what you have accomplished long term.
My daughter was deferred and then excepted. She took the science subject test one more time because she thought her low score was what got her deferred, she and also wrote an additional essay about why she thought MIT was the perfect school for her.
Tank you for the information. Right now it is too late for retaking the subject test. the next one is until May.
Where did your daughter sent the additional essay to?
There is a February update form that is required. You need to include your most recent grades. And you’re given a 250 word limit where you may include any new awards or achievements, or anything else you’d like to add that you think will help your application. That’s where my daughter uploaded her Why MIT is the Perfect place for her, essay."