<p>Is there any likelihood that the waitlist will be used this year, from what people have gathered thus far?</p>
<p>There is no way to know that until after the responses are received by Admissions in early May. I am certain no one would even venture a guess.</p>
<p>no one knows yet, but from <a href="http://ivysuccess.com/mit_2010.html%5B/url%5D">http://ivysuccess.com/mit_2010.html</a>, it states that "MIT expects about 68 percent of accepted students to matriculate."</p>
<p>If the percent yield is accurately predicted by MIT, I doubt MIT will even look at the Wait List this year.</p>
<p>I hate to be optimistic, but an error of 5% in favor of the waitlistees would mean roughly 880 would accept...leaving <em>some</em> space.</p>
<p>I get around 929. Regardless, there is no real way to predict matriculation rates.</p>
<p>Oh well. Guess I'm going to UChicago next year.</p>
<p>Matt McGann just announced that 30 students have been contacted by email and offered a place off the waitlist.</p>
<p>Rats. No email - thanks for the info., though.</p>
<p>go read the Matt McGann notice. There's a possibility of more people coming off the waitlist later. (they also plan to send people letters soon if they have no chance of coming off the waitlist)</p>
<p>Yes, my friend was one of those 30, yay! :)</p>
<p>good luck to the rest who are still waiting!</p>
<p>Congrats to all who got off the waitlist. I was one of those 30, and now I have to decide whether to go to MIT by next Wednesday. So I'm guessing that if they go to the second round of waitlist acceptances, you'll find out in mid-to-late May.</p>
<p>This is SO hard...Rice or MIT..</p>
<p>Em....Ei....Tee!</p>
<p>MIT baby!</p>
<p>I would recommend visiting MIT but given the deadline, I'm not sure how feasible that is...</p>
<p>ARS -- why did MIT, with the option of x-reg at Harvard (to take their foreign language and Arabic literature courses) get beaten by Yale?</p>
<p>Got off the list:</p>
<p>Sat I: 700/800/710
Sat II: 770 Ic, 800 IIc, 710 Chem, 750 Lit
APs: 4s in chem, compsci AB, and BC calc
gpa and class rank: N/A
Hooks: crew, music, legacy. Apparently the three rowers who had talked to the coaches and were waitlisted got in this week. Plus, the freshman crew looks really good this year, so all you smart rowers out there in high school class of 2007 should apply next year.</p>
<p>Ben--Pfft, thanks for asking me the really tough question! I've second-guessed myself a little bit too. It was a combination of Yale's astronomy (surprisingly, yes, it is probably better than MIT's) and my overall feel there...I loved MIT but felt more at home at the Yale.</p>
<p>Plus even with the x-reg at Harvard, I think over half my courseload next year and slightly less in future years will be courses not available at MIT, x-reg has no technical limits but there seem to be pragmatic ones...</p>
<p>Good answer. I thought the question was easy, btw. If you want the breadth of meeting lots of different kinds of people, in lots of different fields, and having lots of very diverse experiences, then x-reg somewhere really doesn't cut it. You have to be a part of the community.</p>
<p>Good luck to you at Yale.</p>
<p>has anyone from the waitlist gotten the letter saying definitely "no" yet.</p>
<p>No. Nothing yet. Not a Yes. Not a No. The waitlistees continue to be tortured.</p>