“Your interview was waived and your application will not be adversely affected.” This means that its as good as an N/A on the interview component. That doesnt tip your app either way. Besides, a decision on you has probably already been made.
This is no matter to worry about though. Chill out and hope for the best. By no means does this statement alone mean you’re out of the game.
Hope this helps.
I guess that’s bad news for me…
I did submit the FUN on Feb 15th. I updated some pretty significant achievements which I feel might improve my chances.
I really hope they haven’t done any decision on me, or Atleast they read my updates form.
The admissions committee reads every FUN before making a decision. Don’t worry about the interview. If you weren’t granted one, you weren’t adversely affected.
That’s reassuring I guess… ?
I agree with @brassratter
Chill out and have fun. As long as there’s no glaring error from your end (small errors are fine; youre only human) regarding any part of your app, and since MIT doesnt give any sort of hint or official letter before pi day (for RD and EA defers), there’s no telling what happens.
No one has a confirmed shot at MIT. Nor any top college. Especially since MIT doesnt take legacy or any advantage into account (donors and so on). Athletes have only a very very slight boost in that regard, and literally no one else.
Hope this helps.
Someone upthread said that interviews didn’t matter much. Thats not always true, and some schools are offering the opportunity for interviews (alum interviews) to be evaluative, not just informative.
@jym626 Well. By them not being important it just means that it supplements an apps personality. It doesnt help tip the profile to any specific decision, not even with the holistic approach (unless you really trash your interview like bad-mouth the school in question and so on). Definitely they hold some value (of supplementing the apps personality) compared to the informative ones which dont even do that. So… I guess its clear now?
Hope this helps.
@ TheGuy1 I have been an alum interviewer. And the new policy is from the school I have interviewed for. It’s a top LAC. Even in the past we were asked, good and bad, was there anything in the interview that the admissions office should be aware of.
@jym626 Thats true as well. But I’m merely stating the general and statistical consensus. I agree though.
I am not sure we are talking about the same thing, @TheGuy1. I was responding to a poster upthread who seemed to suggest that virtually all alum interviews didn’t matter. They can matter in some cases, though rarely will it be a deciding factor (unless an applicant brings a gun to the interview or something, LOL). With a school like MIT, though, if an applicant is offered an interview and declines it without a good reason, it can be problematic.
@jym626 Ah. Sorry for the misconception then. I get what you’re sayin’
I know this is a bit early, but does anyone know the time of day that decisions are released on March 14th?
@Canaanite Jeez. It’s a given tradition that MIT releases decs on Pi day at tau time (6:28 pm ET).
I’m surprized you dont know this. Most MIT apps are very enthusiastic about MIT and its intricacies.
@Canaanite I believe they will inform us of the exact time about a week before. That’s what I heard.
@TheGuy1 MIT’s release date is obviously notorious, no question about that. But it is interesting that MIT hasn’t posted the specific times AND that they said they’d inform us later on. Further, I’ve heard of years when it was not at 6:28 pm, fyi.
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My son received new at 12.09 PM PT which was 15.09 PM ET on a Saturday morning in 2009.
@LincolnsGF Oh… I thought it always came on pi day and tau time for RD and 12:15 pm ET as 12/15 for EA.
Thanks for telling! I thought statistically speaking these were the dates, and there might be anomalies, but these dates shoulld be standard predictions.
Maybe the Adcom isnt ready with their final decisions for a year, or is ready with them earlier? Does that cause a shift in the time?
I’m sure the dates stay the same throughout, regardless.
Apologies for the rudeness in my previous post.
Note: tau time is in ET and is as a pm time
I had a mistake in post #155. The release time was 1:59 ET instead. I remember it was close to lunch in California.
They can also make the release date as 1 pi, and the release time as N pi radian where N is a positive integer.
You will get a full pie if they release at 6:28.
@coolweather Hope that happens! N=2!!!