<p>It is released on a website on a date most likely to be announced next week. The day will be roughly a week after the announcement. The decision is released on a website (something like decisions.mit.edu). You will login using your myMit username and password at which point you will be taken to your decision. Accepted students may receive tubes (a large cardboard tube possibly containing a poster, certificate, and other MIT paraphernalia), will definitely receive letters. Deferred students have the option of sending in supplementary materials for regular admission. Rejected students won't receive anything. Usually around 10% of applicants are accepted, 80% deferred, and 10% rejected. If you are deferred it means that the admissions staff thought you would be competitive in the regular admissions round.</p>
<p>Source? 10char</p>
<p>This can all be confirmed historically by looking at the MIT admissions blog archives. Of course, past performance is no guarantee of future results, and it’s possible that any of these things could change this year, but it is likely that everything here is true.</p>
<p>Yes, all of this information has been gathered from the MIT admissions archive.</p>
<p>To quote mollie:
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<p>Hopefully the acceptance rate is closer to 15% than 10% this year.</p>
<p>I think that that percentage is a little high. I don’t think it has been 15% acceptance for many, many years.</p>
<p>I know, just being optimistic. Realistically, i’m thinking even sub-10% this year due to the increase in applications.</p>
<p>Yeah, I think that is pretty likely.</p>
<p>I was just trying to use round numbers, not to be strictly precise. As you can see from the statistics on the admissions site, last year 10.4% of applicants were admitted EA, and 20.7% were rejected. </p>
<p>The absolute number of EA admits has been (IIRC) higher the past few years than the few years before that, because of elimination of early programs from several of MIT’s competitor schools. But the rate has been steadily dropping due to increased numbers of applicants.</p>
<p>MIT is committed to admitted no more than a third of the incoming class via EA, and the size of the incoming class is limited to about 1100 by availability of housing and other resources. So MIT will try to predict its yield each year, divide that number by three, and that is the number of students they will aim to admit during EA. It’s not necessarily a static number, since it depends on yearly yield predictions.</p>
<p>thanks this is a great post!</p>
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I disagree. Being deferred doesn’t mean you’re competitive, just that the admissions staff didn’t think you were uncompetitive in the regular admission. There’s a slight difference</p>
<p>^There is a difference, but MIT has stated specifically that their policy is to defer students whom they believe to be competitive for admission in the regular round. </p>
<p>E.g., Matt McGann:
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<p>^ But from what I’ve read, the 20% rejected students from EA are not academically qualified. So all the deferred students are considered academically qualified, which doesn’t meant they are competitive.
Even if a student has no chance whatsover of getting in (ex. absolutely no extracurricular, snobby, hates humanity), the admin staff might defer because of high academics.
just my thoughts.</p>
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<p>I doubt that this is true. There is no reason for an admissions officer to defer anyone that they know they will need to reject. It just makes more work for the admissions committee, for no benefit. At the same time, it also makes sense to give borderline cases the benefit of the doubt at this stage.</p>
<p>Is the committee meeting today? Any info?</p>