Hi there,
I have applied to MIT in Early Action this year. Everyone who has done so (and who has not!) is welcome to join this discussion.
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Hello everyone,
You know what, even though my transcripts were submitted to MIT more than three weeks ago, they are yet to be processed. Iâm much concerned about it. Let me know if this is the case with you, and whether your transcripts are processed by now.
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lol same
my school sent the documents using parchment and somehow they received the transcript and nothing else lol
Then what do you intend to do now? How many transcripts of yours were sent to MIT, by the way? Please be as descriptive as possible. Thank you
Namaste, I applied to MIT (EA) this year and my high school transcription has not been processed. I have emailed him about this problem and they said that âthe university needs time to process material of the applicant in their systemâ.
I think we should discuss our own applications (not on this forum) so that we can have a clear idea.
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My D applied EA and all of her items have been processed. Main HS transcript through naviance, online HS transcript through parchment, and her test scores all are shown processed, plus she had an interview. She is a domestic applicant at a public school.
I hope that helps.
Have they said when decisions are going to be released?
I believe I read somewhere that they will email one week before, with all the info⊠If thatâs the case⊠as soon as that email is sent - itâs one week after that. If I had to guess⊠I âthinkâ it might be Sat Dec 12⊠If I had a second guess, then I would guess Tues Dec 15. However, if keeping with tradition, the decision will be released on a Saturday. Oh my goodness⊠Iâm driving myself crazy 
Hang in there everyone!!
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With the increase in apps this year and TO, MIT might delay to the 15th or defer more students. 
Do you have information about an increase in apps this year, specific to MIT?
My Dâs interviewer said the number of apps was up significantly, but didnât provide a number. Not specific to MIT, but someone at Caltech told me they were up and struggling to work through the volume of apps.
If decisions were going to release on 12/12 or 12/14, they would have emailed us by now. I think decisions might be released around 12/19
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MITâs release pattern in the 2018 and 2019 cycles involved a nine day notice prior to a Saturday release. If MIT Admissions follows the same patterns this year, results will be released either December 26th or January 2nd. At this point my bets would be in for Jan 2 because I doubt theyâd want people stressing out through Christmas.
Iâd 100% consider 12/19 to be in the realm of possibility too, though it would break the nine day notice norm.
MIT has extended the Regular Action deadline from January 1st to January 6th, 2021 and the admissions office will be closed from December 24th-January 3rd. I really donât think itâs likely that they would post decisions while they are closed.
Nothing is ânormalâ this year and, with 60% more EA applications, the AO workload has increased substantially. Iâm sure they will post decisions prior to going on their break, regardless of how far in advance they notify of the posting date. AOâs need to be able to start the year without EA hanging over their heads.
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My son is an athletic recruit at MIT and the head coach told him about a week ago that EA decisions will be out by Dec. 15th. There was no mention of any advanced email notification.
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Are you sure what you are talking about? The EA decision should be released much before the RA deadline so that applicants can determine whether they will apply to other colleges or not. If MIT release their decision on Jan 2, it will not give any chance to applicants to consider applying in RA.
Anyway, as mentioned in the website, they will release the decision in mid-December. So, there may be a little delay given the higher number of applicants this year, but not so much delay as Jan 2. And, given the unusual circumstances this year, I donât think they would bother much to follow their tradition of the past couple of years.
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If you what you said is accurate, then you REALLY relieved me! Thank you.
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What I said about the coachâs statement to my son is 100% accurate. There is no guarantee that the coachâs information is correct since as we all know, the admissions office at MIT is less connected with the athletic department than at about any other college in the country. Nonetheless, I trust this head coach and see no reason why heâd have incorrect information about EA notifications. He is trying to fill his roster and he is keeping a very close eye on admissions results, just like every other coach.
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Thank you for your kind information. It has been VERY stressing for me to wait this long time without knowing the exact date. But, I hope that it will be Dec 15.
And, I wonder that how much an applicant will be advantaged by being a recruited athlete. Is there any particular requirement in order to be recruited or simply applying is enough? I wish I applied for varsity sports, but I thought I would need good qualification for that.
It doesnât really work that way - you donât âapplyâ for varsity college athletics. Instead, you reach out to coaches in various ways (e.g., through Twitter, email, or using various recruiting tools like agencies and their websites - Go Big Recruiting for example). You send them film, your stats and other info, and they either ignore you or they start to develop a relationship. In some sports they invite you to what are basically tryout camps where they observe you play on the field. They speak with you directly at some point and then, for Division 3 schools like MIT, if the head coach decide they want to recruit you, they extend a formal offer of support in the admissions process. Things vary a lot by school - some of the tippy tops do offer academic pre-reads where the coach sends your information to the admissions office and they let you know what your chances of acceptance might be. MIT doesnât do academic pre-reads. What the head coach told a group of potential recruits in a summer invitation-only Zoom was that if you end up âhigh on the boardâ (in other words, you have the coachâs full support) at MIT, that means your chances of admission become approximately 50/50. So for a guy trying to get in to MIT, you go from about 4% to about 50% likelihood of admission. Of course, the coaches know your grades and test scores before they send their list to the AO and theyâre not going to send over a name of an excellent athlete who does not meet MITâs incredibly high academic standards.
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