<p>MiT is the best 
Ever since I heard about it I’ve wanted to study Physics there. Oh well, I’ll keep my fingers crossed.</p>
<p>ill be applying early. we will see what happens…hopefully i will see some of you there in fall 2011!</p>
<p>Early Action, and praying for the best. :)</p>
<p>have you guys visited? it is literally the best place on the planet! also, anyone else being recruited for athletics?</p>
<p>I visit often actually, haha. I go there for programs like HSSP for Spring and Summer, as well as Splash. I just can’t get enough of it. I even visit restaurants and stuff on campus when I’m in the area. It’s nice to just be a train ride away from it.</p>
<p>^mbnnn. I live in Chicago but actually get out to Boston a lot since we have relatives there. but this spring was the first time I was actually inside MIT, at classes, around campus, staying overnight, etc. it was so great. definitely planning to go back asap!</p>
<p>Hahaha, very nice. I really should stay overnight sometime. I have a friend there right now, so maybe I’ll see if she can hook me up with a room somewhere some night, haha</p>
<p>How much does EA increase your chances of admissions for MIT, and is it binding?</p>
<p>EA for me. I’m looking forward to a nice rejection letter (following deferral) to frame and put on my wall :)</p>
<p>nope. not binding. and it doesn’t increase your chances at all, the majority of EA are deferred. only people that are really amazing get accepted EA</p>
<p>@fledgling:
I think the fact that you want to do course 24 is already unique. Not many people come in with such a strong passion for linguistics, and I would definitely emphasize that on your application =) Not everyone here is super math/sciency (I definitely am not!), and it’ll do you good to show how you’re different from the status quo. Good luck!</p>
<p>^ Thanks for the encouragement! Languages and human communication have long made up several of my deepest interests, so I’m hoping I’ll be able to show that I’m not the typical engineering aspirant. :p</p>
<p>Hey, can it hurt chances to apply EA?</p>
<p>Whether you decide to apply EA or RD is more about you and the choices you want to make than about how MIT will evaluate your application.</p>
<p>MIT reads and selects applications in the same way during the EA and RD periods (applications are read and summarized first, then read by multiple readers, then discussed in a several-day selection committee). Some applicants are selected for admission during EA. Among those EA applicants who are not admitted EA, those whose applications are considered competitive are deferred to the RD round, and those whose applications are not considered competitive are rejected. </p>
<p>The advantages I see to applying EA are as follows:
- You are finished with the application, and potentially the application process, earlier.
- If deferred, you have the ability to send in additional materials to strengthen your case for several weeks. This ability to reflect upon and strengthen the application is, I think, a big deal. </p>
<p>The disadvantages:
- You must be done with the application earlier, so your application could be rushed.
- You must forego applying to SCEA and ED schools that don’t allow simultaneous applications.
- You must be prepared to be deferred, as the vast majority of applicants are, and then rejected during RD. It seems from what I’ve seen on CC that this prolongs the agony of college applications to a significant degree.</p>
<p>Applying either EA or RD won’t get an applicant accepted or rejected. It’s about how applying EA or RD fits into your plan for college applications.</p>
<p>Thank you!</p>
<p>Count me in!!! I am hopeful too for Class '15!!:)</p>
<p>Good luck to all of you!!:)</p>
<p>The shimmering holy grail that is MIT is the only thing that may keep me from applying ED to Cornell. I keep going back in forth in my mind. Choosing between the huge bump in chances for ED at Cornell (but giving up on MIT) and the possibility of MIT is torturous.</p>
<p>@blee2011 - I never considered ED myself, but this is what my counselor had to say on the subject: if they would have taken you ED, they will take you in the regular round, so don’t commit early.</p>
<p>I think there’s some value to that, although the statistics may seem to go contrary.</p>
<p>@Inkling
Yeah I do agree with you, but although the 37% ED/21% RD difference does cast some doubt on that in my mind. Also Cornell generally takes over 40% of the freshman class through ED. So I am very confused. :(</p>
<p>@blee2011: I have the exact same dilemma. Cornell is vastly more realistic, not to mention an exceptional option in its own right (add to that the fact that both of my parents went there)…but MiT is…well, it’s in its own category.</p>