@IequalSmart @vik0likes0cs I got it at 5:10… Pretty sure the email timing is random. Maybe alphabetical order. What are the first letters of your guys’ last names?
What email?
First name starts with A and last with S. I don’t think Ill get in and am pretty mad at my school tbh. I specified that I wanted my math teacher’s rec sent in and they sent my math and research teachers’. So MIT chose one of them and IDK which one. Unfortunately my application was already very research-oriented previously and the math teacher and I are pretty close so it kinda gets on my nerves.
@APS2000 What does your email say?
@brazos21 When decisions will be released and how to access the portal.
@brazos21 Yeah, it just says the release date and how to access the portal.
@lequalSmart MIT allows more than one recommendation and you send the emails to recommenders directly through their website so I’m not sure how that could be the school’s fault
@lequalSmart What email is this? And what’s this theory about accepted/deferred applicants getting email in different order?
got it at 5:03
but honestly i don’t think the time you receive the email means anything
My son received it at 4:02 central time
I’m always amazed how people try to read acceptances/rejections into the smallest nuances. Colleges are savvy enough not to tip their hands.
@vhsdad I expected that there isn’t any reason: I was just confused that they sent them out at different times and that would be one explanation. From what I’ve seen, other schools have just sent out mass emails.
@equality4all You can also have your school send them in if it is uploaded to naviance. What happened was that they had 3 on file and 2 of them are STEM, of which MIT only allows one.
@IequalSmart interesting thought, so three different times reported could mean accepted, deferred, or rejected…
I got mine at 04:02, central time
I suppose they just sent emails by time zones
Yeah… they probably sent them out sporadically. It just strikes me as odd that they wouldn’t send them all out at once.
Honestly they probably did send them all at once (or at least tried). The time received would just depend on your internet connection and their server capacity. Everyone got them within 15 min of 2:00 PST so that was probably their target time.
i got mine at 4:13 central time
I also got mine at 4:13 central time
Apparently there is no relation between admission status and email order, Chris P replied to someone’s question about this on the blog.