Haha, no. I mean, a) that would be really hard, and b) what would be the point?</p>
<p>My personal feeling is that it's kind of nice not to know when an acceptance is going to come. I spent an entire miserable basketball game last winter waiting for a call to come from UCSF (because a friend of mine had already been called), but my Harvard acceptance was a wonderful surprise because I didn't know it was coming.</p>
<p>Come to think of it, my MIT undergrad acceptance was also a total surprise -- these were the pre-blog days, and I had no idea decisions were sent out in mid-March rather than early April. It's better that way, I think.</p>
<p>yeah I agree. I wish I could just forget about the whole thing until december 9th. As for the stupid question, it was a rumor I heard. I didn't think it was true, but I wanted to make sure</p>
<p>When MIT has a waitlist, the waitlist isn't even actually ranked -- if they need to go to the waitlist, they'll re-evaluate all of the applicants on the waitlist.</p>
<p>It is really too bad that things like "the tube" are no more. The experience and thrill of a positive response are orders of magnitude greater by mail as opposed to on-line notification. Oh well progress is progress.</p>
<p>As I've said before, the look on my son's face when he saw the (unexpected) big MIT envelope at his place at the table with the day's mail two years ago is a sight I will never, ever forget. Contrasting that to his "ho hum, look at that, it says online that I got into Great College X" response, the live surprise was absolutely an order of magnitude greater.</p>
<p>BUT, I totally understand that most of you would really rather just find out NOW-I-DON'T-WANT-TO-WAIT-TO-FIND-OUT. I'm just with akdaddy that it's a shame that most people won't want to wait for the postal mail experience. (Anyone thinking of waiting for the postal mail to find out??)</p>
<p>Actually, yeah. I'm planning on waiting for the mail decision. I even sent my application via snail mail, so I guess I'm a bit traditional...</p>
<p>Besides, I really don't think that I could click the login button without dieing of some sort of massive combination of a heart attack and stroke at the same time. I'd much rather either see a package or an envelope. If I see a package, I'll be incredibly happy. If I see an envelope, I'll be very disappointed, but I'll at least have the ability to ready myself myself. I'd then be hoping for a deferral, bracing for a rejection. The difference between accepted and rejected is just too huge to leave to a single step.</p>
<p>It is going to be pure torture looking at the blogs watching people announce their fate.</p>
<p>Seeing things like test scores online just take the excitement and whaam of it. I saw my SAT 2 scores TODAY and I was like huh good Math 2 800 thats good. Chem 700 thats nice.
Its anticipation that is a killer. Coming home everyday waiting is gonna be torture especially seeing the decision threads when thay come in Next Saturday.</p>
<p>I agree that it would be a lot more fun to wait for the mail...but I think I would go insane knowing that my decision was waiting for me RIGHT THERE on the website, and all I had to do was click a button.</p>
<p>Quantum Theory and relativity. Lol I can imagine SHP... at 11:59 all of a sudden 500 ppl gather in the lobby to use the 2 computers there -_-; lol</p>
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<p>Mathson did that course last fall. He seemed to enjoy it, but it takes forever to get to Columbia from our house using public transportation so he just did it the one semester.</p>