<p>Where else did you apply for the regular decision round? I suspect that there are maybe 50% people who are staunch MIT fans and already committed to MIT after being accepted early.</p>
<p>well I definitely plan to go to MIT. I can’t really see myself anywhere else, but I’d already applied to a few places. I didn’t feel like withdrawing my apps after spending so much time doing the common app.
So I applied to:
Harvard
Columbia
Brown
RPI (gave me a free app and I was just too lazy to withdraw)</p>
<p>My friend who got accepted EA to MIT didn’t start any other apps. That could have been a stressful situation otherwise. lol</p>
<p>I applied to…
Harvard
Princeton
Amherst
Williams
Bowdoin</p>
<p>I got free apps from princeton, williams, and amherst, but i think that it is going to come down to bowdoin and MIT, harvard was just for the possibility of leveraging my financial aid</p>
<p>UChicago, but I had already submitted my app before I found out about MIT. I almost applied to Middlebury and Harvard too but I decided to save myself the fee since I would almost definitely choose MIT over Middlebury and Harvard. I didn’t have any other completed applications.</p>
<p>A friend of mine who got in too applied to Penn and Princeton RD.</p>
<p>My son, accepted EA to MIT, applied to a bunch of schools, none of which were HYP, etc. He’s not really interested in ivy league. Doesn’t see them as a particularly good fit. He thinks MIT is perfect. But we have absolutely no earthly idea if we can afford it. Don’t know what the financial aid will be like.</p>
<p>He DID apply to Stanford RD, which is probably the closest of the schools on his list to an HYP. It wasn’t until after he applied that we read the thread(s) about Stanford vs. MIT and other people’s opinions that if you’re a fit for one, you’re not a fit for the other. It’s hard to get a really good feeling about a college on one visit and some internet searching, I suppose, but he can see himself at either school – Stanford or MIT.</p>
<p>The other schools he applied to RD were schools like Vandy, Wash U, Rice, USC, etc. Small-ish, excellent faculty, engineering AND music, availability of liberal arts, “feels” like a fit … that sort of thing.</p>
<p>I know one only applied/accepted to MIT.</p>
<p>Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Stanford, UPenn Wharton
and UC Berkeley because I sent out my app before I heard back from MIT.</p>
<p>Harvard, Princeton, Upenn, Stanford</p>
<p>mitigated-exact same 4</p>
<p>and i also applied USC and BU for scholarships.</p>
<p>I had only submitted three apps (Yale, Penn State, and UVA) before I got my decision from MIT. I pulled Yale and declined admission from Penn State. I’m keeping UVA because I’m a Jefferson Scholarship candidate. If I get the scholarship, it will be a really rough decision, but pretty much definite that I’m going to MIT.</p>
<p>curious, bestswimmer … if you’re still around … why did you ask? I’ve been curious ever since I saw your post. So if you could, would you mind humoring me with the reasoning behind your question? :)</p>
<p>I’m entirely curious about people’s choices. I always thought an overwhleming majority of MIT’s accepted EA applicants will be committeed to MIT.</p>
<p>Other EA: Notre Dame</p>
<p>RA: Harvard, Brown, 6 UC schools (including UCB), University of Washington, Columbia… I forget the rest. There were 15 total.</p>
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<p>I actually was committed to MIT. I finished all my applications before EA decisions came out because I was full of senioritis and doing applications never stressed me out (which… I guess is different from most people).</p>