<p>I honestly wish everyone the best of luck. But I want to warn all of you against being too excited.</p>
<p>I know that honestly, at best, I will be deferred.</p>
<p>Please try to be logical...don't be TOO optimistic.</p>
<p>The higher you stand, the harder you'll fall.</p>
<p>BEST OF LUCK, GUYS!</p>
<p>Dream big. Best of luck to all of us.</p>
<p>I’m trying to be hopeful without being optimistic, if that makes sense.
Best of luck to you all. After spending the past ~6 weeks on this forum with everyone, I can honestly say that I think everyone here is a really strong applicant.
Let the chips fall where they may.</p>
<p>Yeah, expecting my deferral/rejection</p>
<p>Thanks for this. For the past hour, I’ve been a little too hopeful. This helped bring me down a bit (in a good way). Thanks.</p>
<p>Thank you. I had been believing since the beginning that I’d be lucky to even be deferred, but today I’ve been a little too happy. This is good.</p>
<p>Oh, the power of positive thinking.</p>
<p>Code H - </p>
<p>Statistically, you are correct. The official numbers will go live on our site in about 20 minutes, but almost 6,000 people applied Early Action this year. Since we enroll about 1000 students in total, nevermind just during EA…well, you’re smart. You can do the math. </p>
<p>That said, if you aren’t accepted, you can take comfort from three things: </p>
<ul>
<li><p>That deferred students face no negative prejudice in regular action, meaning you’ll get a fresh set of eyes evaluating you in the spring </p></li>
<li><p>That the only way to definitely not get into MIT is not to try, and you already didn’t do that (lots of negatives there! hope I parsed it right!) </p></li>
<li><p>That, no matter where you go to school, you will do just fine. </p></li>
</ul>
<p>In other words, while you should all be realistic about the odds of getting in to MIT, you should also all be optimistic knowing that wherever you go you will be fine. </p>
<p>:)</p>
<p>(333*(3/2))/6000= %8.3??? >.<</p>
<p>Good Luck from the Penn Class of 2014</p>
<p>Sigh. The sad truth. Is it true that the results will be up 11 minutes early?</p>
<p>i don’t know what to say about that acceptance rate. </p>
<p>college admissions has become… i don’t even know</p>
<p>Pessimism. Either you’re right. Or you’re pleasantly surprised.</p>
<p>All I can say is thank god I’m 21.</p>
<p>LOL.</p>
<p>I’m loving myself for this thread.</p>
<p>LOL I totally expect ot get denied. But thats sort of the idea… well not really. But whether I get rejected or, by some grace fo god, accepted I am going to keep the decision letter for the rest of my life. My mom and I are going to put all of my accepted decision letters in a special book thing. But since MIT is such a special place its going int here regardless of the outcome.
I’m kinda just happy as hell that atleast they gave 5-10 minutes of their day to read my application… odd I know but thats how I feel. I totally don’t expect to get in. But if I do then I won’t be able to shut up for weeks :)</p>