<p>I always think it's funny that almost nobody gets in everywhere they apply, no matter how accomplished they are and how good their applications looked. Thought it'd make for a good discussion :P</p>
<p>I got into MIT EA this year(!) and just got waitlisted at WashU in St. Louis haha. I also got deferred at Caltech, but that's a lot less surprising ;)</p>
<p>So what about you?</p>
<p>Accepted (and the only place I applied to junior year): Penn State Schreyer Honors College
Deferred, then accepted (senior year): MIT, Caltech
Waitlisted: Yale
Rejected: Princeton (two weeks after I applied, because I was already enrolled at Penn State), Stanford, Harvard</p>
<p>Current student at MIT.
Accepted Chicago, Minnesota-Twin Cities, NYU, MIT.
Rejected Harvard, Caltech.</p>
<p>I also know a decent number of people who got in everywhere they applied (not counting people who got in early and didn’t apply anywhere else).</p>
<p>Accepted: MIT (EA)</p>
<p>Rejected: Nowhere (why even bother to apply anywhere else?)</p>
<p>My deferral at Caltech just turned into a solid rejection… not too upset about it 
I was going to upload my research paper, etc. to pad out my application, but after I got into MIT EA it was all over haha.</p>
<p>Still can’t believe I got waitlisted at WUStL. They must have been able to tell I didn’t have any interest in going there (my dad wanted me to apply). :P</p>
<p>Also, accepted: Pitt (full tuition scholarship), UConn (5k/yr scholarship), Smith (didn’t know they did anything early?).</p>
<p>Waiting on: Yale, CMU, Williams, Wesleyan (missed some finaid deadlines but obviously I’m not too broken up about that).</p>
<p>Accepted: MIT (EA), GTech (EA), Alabama, Auburn, USC </p>
<p>Pending: UCLA, UC Berkeley, Princeton</p>
<p>Rejected: None (yet)</p>
<p>I got rejected from Chicago, Harvard, and Stanford.</p>
<p>I’m MIT '13</p>
<p>Accepted: MIT, PSU IS Honors, Temple Honors w/ Full Tuition, Drexel Honors w/ Full Tuition, Northeastern</p>
<p>Rejected: Harvard</p>
<p>I feel like most MIT students wouldn’t be happy at Harvard anyway. I visited there and absolutely hated it…it all went downhill after my tour guide bragged about changing her major from astrophysics to creative writing or something like that. ;)</p>
<p>haha!! do people actually do that !!!???</p>
<p>If no one majored in Medieval Studies then the major (and others like it) wouldn’t exist.</p>
<p>Good point !</p>
<p>She might not have been bragging. There are people who are not able to be happy and healthy in a science or engineering major and, often after depression and sometimes forced time away from college, switch to a humanities program. This happens at MIT, but I imagine it’s much more stigmatized at MIT than it is at Harvard, since Harvard is a place that many people come to specifically to study in a humanities program. Not that MIT’s humanities programs aren’t absolutely fantastic, but I can see how a person might be much more okay with switching if they were at Harvard.</p>
<p>@lidusha: That’s true, of course. After hearing that, I’ve definitely had some moments where I wonder if I’ll end up changing my mind that drastically…but it’s pointless to worry about it now!</p>
<p>Either way, although the tour guides were just being enthusiastic about their school, I definitely didn’t feel the vibe as much as I have at other schools. It saved me an extra application so I can’t complain.</p>
<p>Yep. Nothing wrong with changing majors. There are definitely people who wouldn’t be happy at either Harvard or MIT. There are definitely people who would be happy at either.</p>
<p>Well I’m waiting for a rejection from MIT, so I don’t see the point in saying where I got into lol. But to the person that got waitlisted into WashU the same happened to a lot of my friends who applied RD to casewestern. Casewestern became sort of a joke application at our highschool cuz it’s a no supplement, no application fee, only need to submit SAT and gives a lot of merit scholarship money school. A lot of the guys who weren’t Ivy league statwise, but clearly above casewestern’s average SAT score and GPA got waitlisted whereas a friend who applied EA and had similar stats go in. Colleges in RD are definitely assessing students differently than in EA.</p>
<p>Accepted: MIT (EA), Caltech (EA), USC, UCLA, UCSD, Case Western, University of Miami, Caltech/UCSD 8-year med, UCSD/UCSD 8-year med, Case Western 8-year med
Waitlisted: Rice (lol), Harvard
Rejected: Stanford, University of Miami 8-year med, Rice/Baylor 8-year med, Duke (forced to apply lol)</p>
<p>If I hadn’t gotten into MIT EA, I would have applied to Chicago, Princeton, Columbia, Penn M&T, Wash U, and a couple others</p>
<p>Too many legacies and recruits from my high school…not that I was a recruit or anything :P</p>
<p>I’m a current student, class of 2015.</p>
<p>Accepted: MIT, CalTech, Cornell, Rice, Harvey Mudd, UC Davis, UC San Diego</p>
<p>Rejected: Harvard, Yale, Princeton, UC Berkeley, UCLA</p>
<p>I’m class of 2017.</p>
<p>Accepted: MIT (RA)
Rejected: Caltech (RD) (perhaps that’s about money. I’m asking for too much financial aid 
)
Waiting for results: Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Columbia, Stanford, CMU</p>
<p>Class of 2017</p>
<p>Accepted: Princeton (SCEA), MIT
Rejected: none so far
Pending: Harvard</p>