<p>The funny thing is we could have checked a lot earlier, at 12:12 i decided to go to <a href=“MIT Admissions”>MIT Admissions; instead of verify.php and it worked xD</p>
<p>Here you go my fellow deferees: numbers, not encouraging numbers, but at least we know a bit more about what’s going on.</p>
<p>[Admissions</a> Statistics | MIT Admissions](<a href=“http://mitadmissions.org/apply/process/stats]Admissions”>Admissions statistics | MIT Admissions)</p>
<p>According to last year, 9.9% get accepted from EA, 68.5% deferred, 21.6% rejected. The deferred then have a 4.2% chance of getting in through regular action.</p>
<p>Good luck to all (accepted, rejected, deferred) in your endeavors.</p>
<p>deferred…</p>
<p>If anyone’s interested in the numbers for this year:</p>
<p>[MIT</a> Early Action Decisions Now Available Online | MIT Admissions](<a href=“http://mitadmissions.org/blogs/entry/mit-early-action-decisions-now-available-online1]MIT”>MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online | MIT Admissions)</p>
<p>interesting… admitted 6% less but only deferred 1% more… Our chances may have slightly increased :D. Or not depending on changing applicants…</p>
<p>^To be fair, last year’s numbers were an outlier. Typically the deferred-EA-accepted-RD rate is similar to the overall RD acceptance rate.</p>
<p>Ah, ok. thanks</p>
<p>Accepted! :D</p>
<p>Accepted! I had to stay up to 4 AM to get the news but it was definitely worth it!</p>
<p>Deferred. Interesting how admissions decided to admit less early this year even though there was an increase in applicants.</p>
<p>^ Look at mollie’s post #146</p>
<p>Whoooooo accepted! Yaaaay!</p>
<p>well friends i was accepted</p>
<p>i am a true nerd</p>
<p>So here in MN, a lot of people (friends, family, teachers, random passerbys) haven’t heard of MIT, much less can name the state it’s in (Michigan? No… Mississippi?). </p>
<p>Has anyone perfected a good elevator pitch about an MIT acceptance that makes sense to people? I’m trying to contain my enthusiasm, but don’t want to be mistaken for over-reacting to a community-college admittance.</p>
<p>^I actually have a similar problem (but my family knows how big MIT is :P). In my opinion, the best thing you should do is bask in your own accomplishment. So what if they don’t know what MIT is? You do, and that should be enough.</p>
<p>In other news, anybody get their tube yet?</p>
<p>Wow they don’t know about MIT? Everyone knows about MIT, even in my country</p>
<p>^ I didn’t know what MIT was until the end of my junior year of high school. You have to be a certain type of privileged to know what MIT is.</p>
<p>jtg007 - My classmates thought I was going to Michigan. I’m from California! 
As for elevator pitch, I found “top engineering and science school in the world” to be somewhat effective.</p>
<p>No sweetie, it’s just that people in my country care more about education than Kim Kardashian.</p>
<p>^ My family hasn’t the slightest clue who Kim Kardashian is. In fact, I was exposed to her at MIT. And I will point out that you apparently know who she is as well.</p>
<p>If you need to resort to diminutives to assert dominance, you should think twice about what you’re posting.</p>
<p>I guess the best I can do is wait for the rejection letter come this March, now that I got deferred EA.</p>