<p>Hey guys,</p>
<p>Don't know if anybody can help me on this, but I just found out today from one of my teachers who wrote me a recommendation that MIT contacted her to ask if she could talk over the phone about me. I don't actually know anybody who's ever had this happen to them before, so I was just wondering if anybody knows what this most likely means or even if this is a good or bad sign, especially with less than a week to go before decisions (eek!). Thanks :)</p>
<p>Now, you know for sure, either you got in or you didn’t.</p>
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LOL That narrows it down! :P</p>
<p>I’m sure its a good thing! You’re probably in-between a accept/waitlist, and they wanted information (just guessing here but its the most logical answer)</p>
<p>At the very least, it means they’re seriously considering your application, otherwise they wouldn’t bother. It says nothing of whether they accepted you or not though, but if on Pi Day it happens to be a ‘not’, you can rest assured it wasn’t because of your grades/rank that they rejected you, and that you were a competitive applicant.
Good luck :)</p>
<p>Um, well I dunno honestly about MIT, having your teacher being contacted for something… it can be on your favor, or it could be against you. I’m citing an example of my friend (who applied actually to another very selective new school in my country) and they literally called my guidance counselor to ask about his grades and asking my counselor to tell honestly as to why should we accept him? (his standardized tests were good, but his class rank/gpa were the opposite)</p>
<p>I really don’t know much about the process for MIT, so it depends on what exactly did MIT ask your teacher about. Still, it is a good sign that MIT is concerned about you.</p>
<p>I have read that many colleges are verifying credentials on a spot check basis. Stanford states this outright on it’s website. This is a reaction to that kid who defrauded Harvard. He was a total fake with false recs and transcripts. So I think it is a spot check. Having said that, why would they take time to check credentials for someone who they have already rejected? Take it as a good sign and hope your teacher confirmed what he/she wrote and tried to sell you as the perfect MIT candidate.</p>
<p>If your application reflects who you are and your teacher’s recommendation aligns with your application. You are “IN”, that’s what they want to confirm. To me, there is some insistent issue in your application, which triggers the call. Hopefully your teacher clarified any misunderstanding for you. Good luck !</p>
<p>Let me try to be as clear as I can here: it could be a good thing, or it could not, but no matter what, on Pi day you will definitely be either admitted or not admitted. </p>
<p>e: serious point - if you do get in, it is not necessarily because of (or despite of) your teacher convo; if you don’t get in, it is not necessarily because of (or despite of) your teacher convo.</p>
<p>Nicely stated, Chris! Sometimes I really wish teachers would not share that type of information because it just complicates matters for everyone.</p>
<p>@Chris… Waitlisted is a possibility, no?</p>
<p>Thank you, everyone! I talked to my teacher again today, and it turns out it was that she hadn’t used the official school letterhead on her recommendation (nothing major at all heheh). But hopefully what you guys have posted so far still applies, since they were at least verifying? Ah, I should probably just stop thinking about it hahah…</p>
<p>Nice. I bet you’re so relieved right now, hahaha!</p>
<p>Hahahah yeah, that won’t really be the case until I get my decision back though XD</p>
<p>does this mean that MIT is still reading apps? I would have thought they had read them all by now and at this point were focusing on getting the mail together and on making sure the site does not crash when everyone logs in (please make the latter happen, if there’s a school with the tech genius to prevent a crash, it has to be MIT)</p>
<p>@komarony - </p>
<p>rats!! foiled again!! </p>
<p>(yes, waitlisted is also an option) </p>
<p>@Jalmoreno - </p>
<p>We are not still reading apps, but we are still making decisions.</p>
<p>@MITChris: Do you take active reading notes on apps…? Or how do you end up being able to compare between so many applicants and then go back and forth between them? Just wondering how admissions work, and maybe I could extract something from you even if it’s not an acceptance tube. :P</p>
<p>Huh. Kinda weird thinking that my application has already been read and summarized by an admissions officer, and is likely being presented to committee in these few days. Someone I’ve never met knows me pretty personally right now…
What’s great about you MIT guys is that you share with us as much as you can about the process that the above feeling is mitigated compared to other schools 
I know it’s in good hands, at the very least.
Good luck guys, I hope we all get accepted! (Even though the statistics are pushing against us like mad!)</p>
<p>Presidont, from the admissions website:
They haven’t yet developed a system to evaluate all those applications without writing out summaries. :)</p>