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@cavetechie , You are amazing. You deserve to get accepted, not defer. This really bother me. I know a girl, who is an inventor, invent medical device to help people. She is a nice young lady, sacrifices her time to help people. She is so active in her community. She found a club with a Grant to teach middle school girl CS and the educators. Her SAT is almost perfect and got perfect SAT 2. She is also good in sport(Varsity every year). She went to PRESTIGIOUS Governor school, and also get national and international awards for her project. She is also a leader of robotic club and got prestigious First DEAN’s list finalist and internship at big company in the Bay area. She is also write well, so honest and humble in her essays. She is also get defer.
I also know someone did well in school, but does not do sport or activity, but got accepted. It is sad to see the way MIT admit the students. It does not make sense at all.It is very sad to see that. Did they really read all the applications carefully to give a fair result?
Deferral is not a rejection. Everyone who was deferred have amazing stats. My DD was deferred two years ago and was absolutely heartbroken, but she was admitted during regular cycle and is a happy sophomore at MIT. Good luck!
Why does MIT defer so many students? I would expect them to defer at most the number of students they could possibly accept from RA. (defer a little less than 1000)
@MITChris even I had the same concern as @semicolon . Could you please spare some time to shed light upon this matter?
@ballerina016, Did you daughter update any new stuff in Feb, beside a grade report?
The stock answer would be that not much separates each students in the deferral group. My guess, is they are looking for something very specific for EA, and if you don’t have that something, you quickly get lumped in a pile. Makes sense given they had to go through 9000 some apps in less than a month and a half.
Exactly as vhsdad says. Only the candidates who would struggle too much just to get the degree receive a rejection. The hooked candidates get accepted. Everyone else gets thrown into the deferred pile. Don’t lose hope, but remain realistic about your chances.
@cocofan , That is not true. I know many hooked candidates get deferred. One kid who went to prestigious RSI get deferred
@ballerina016, I just feel bad for a girl (inventor). Eventhough, she got defer from MIT, she still showed a positive attitude with mature maner. She told me that she is glad that MIT gave her second chance and understand a difficult decision that Admission reviewers made. She is so nice and so caring. I should learn from her.
@math lover my DD had a patent and still was deferred. As far as updating her application she didn’t have any significant updates. Good luck!
Unlike almost any other school, MIT applicants are front loaded in the EA round (nearly 50%). It’d be nearly impossible to thoroughly and properly evaluate each applicant in the early round. Deferred early applicants would have somewhat better chance to be accepted in the regular round than RD applicants since the RD pool would still contain some clearly unqualified applicants.
I stand by my statement that hooked applicants get in early round. I never said a student with a patent was hooked.
I meant to say RSI no longer makes someone hooked.
You have to be a hooked candidate to be able to get in a prestigious RSI. Each year, RSI only choose 1-2 juniors in each state (depends your state is big or small) to attend RSI. A chance to be selected is less than 1%
You get no argument from me. I think RSI students should be admitted in the early round but MIT does not agree.
In past years, the acceptance rate for deferred EA applicants has been lower than for kids that waited until RD to apply.* There has to be an explanation for this phenomenon. For instance, if could be that:
- at the high-end, many new RD applicants are stronger than the best deferred EA applicants,
- at the low-end, many deferred EA applicants are not competitive with the new RD applicants, or
- the deferred EA applicants don’t get another thorough “read” and tend to be overlooked during RD.
My intuition (no proof at all) is that #2 is the likely culprit, and that if MIT rejected more EA applicants that really have no chance during the regular round, the acceptance rate for deferred EA applicants would be more in line with that for the pool of kids that wait until RD to apply.
- However, in past years, if you sum those admitted EA and the deferred EA applicants that were later admitted during RD, the OVERALL acceptance rate for EA applicants has been considerably higher than that for kids that waited until RD to apply. (Last year, this stat was 10.5% vs 4.7%. ) Of course, this may simply reflect that the EA pool is stronger, which (if true) means that #1 above is not possible.
By “high end” and “low end,” I am referring to the tails of a probability distribution based on quality/strength of the application. One could argue that such a probability distribution doesn’t exist, but AOs must have some kind of rating system in order to make admission decisions.
@whatisyourquest The numbers published by MIT can’t be used directly to compute the admit rate for deferred applicants because some of them withdrew after their acceptance into another ED program elsewhere.
@MITChris , I have the same question with @semicolon . It would be great if you can spare your time to give us an answer. We are curious. How can you have time to read all the applications from RD +80%defered applicants?