<p>so what if we send in supplementary material? Will our application then be resummarized?</p>
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Your application will be re-read and will be discussed in committee exactly the same way it was during EA. The admissions office knows that you’ve applied EA, because it’s indicated in a few different places in the application), but it’s not a positive or a negative. Everybody goes into one big pool.</p>
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Nothing in your application is treated as an “accessory” – it’s all read and considered together. If you include another essay in your mid-year report, it will be read with as much consideration as the rest of your application.</p>
<p>Thank you, molliebatmit.</p>
<p>Chris would have to answer that. I don’t believe it is, but my understanding is that the summary is really a pretty basic summary – just an application-at-a-glance, not containing the type of in-depth information that would be gleaned by actually reading the file.</p>
<p>EDIT: And I hope it’s okay with you guys that I moved your posts here. I just thought it would be easier to keep all the deferred student information in the same place, and not to let it get lost in the FAQ thread.</p>
<p>I was confused at first, but this is better. thanks again!</p>
<p>I should move posts around late at night when nobody is here, but I’m old and I go to bed early. :)</p>
<p>That’s good enough for me, mollie. Thanks!</p>
<p>CPUscientist, the way I view it is this: they didn’t want us yet. (Say what you will about how everyone’s qualified—I don’t doubt it—but our applications were lacking whatever spark(s) got people admitted.)</p>
<p>Do your best to assume we’ll be reconsidered without bias. It’s impossible to control for the effects—they already have the “briefs” on all of us (step 1), so I’d imagine the reuse those—but the committee discussion process is probably identical. </p>
<p>First of all, I speculate that running the admissions process multiple times with identical applicants [if you could actually do this] would yield entirely different classes. All excellent, qualified classes, but nonetheless different. So that alone could get you in. </p>
<p>Second, the RD applicant pool is very different. Hopefully we’ll stand out more; perhaps the EA pool had a surplus of piano-playing runners who want to major in Course 6, and perhaps the RD pool will have a shortage. Forgive the examples—I know MIT doesn’t discriminate by major—but building a “perfect” class does establish some flexible quotas. And MIT can’t fill up that whole class before it takes a look at the RD applicants. Then they can decide if they want us or not. Here’s hoping!</p>
<p>I’m submitting additional information because, reading my initial application two months later, I feel like it’s not a complete picture of who I am. [Had I submitted the essay to begin with, I’d have left my app alone.]</p>
<p>Edit: Whoops, I’m a couple posts behind now. This makes more sense, mollie, thanks!</p>
<p>^But I totally agree with everything you’ve said.</p>
<p>primatology. That’s how I’m seeing it now. That’s what I’m telling myself until March 14, 2012 
they don’t want us yet. maybe they want to cut down the cost of paper to make the tubes? ;)</p>
<p>I wish I could set up a secret camera and watch the committee discuss my application. That would be amazing to watch haha.</p>
<p>But I still don’t understand why MIT defers about 13 times the amount of students that they historically have admitted through deferral…why defer 4,000 when, historically, only about 300 get in? Why not be more rigorous in rejecting the “weaker” deferees?</p>
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Because it is very, very tough to reject someone they want, even if that person is “weaker” than other candidates. In EA, they have the option to defer, so they use it.
… at least that’s my impression.
And this is why I haven’t yet lost all hope.</p>