<p>I don’t know what the word limit currently is for the optional section. A few years ago, I recall that it was 750 words, but I don’t know if that’s changed.</p>
<p>You should send a cover sheet with each supplemental document, even if you send them in the same envelope. Sometimes documents are separated before they find their way to your folder, and you want them to have some identifying information.</p>
<p>I just submitted my app, and I decided to look over it again anyway, and realized I put “3” instead of “30” for the weeks per year of one of my activities. Do you think it would be clear to the reader that it was a typo, or should I send an email saying it was a mistake?</p>
<p>@ilikecashews Can’t hurt to send a quick email</p>
<p>Umm but I’m having a problem submitting! I filled out the date for the “I agree that this is real etc” a while ago (8/8/13, to be exact) but now I can’t change it to today’s date!!!</p>
<p>Help?!</p>
<p>never mind, it updated itself or something</p>
<p>Ok so I had the same problem as @kitkat522, except my app didn’t update the date. Is this an issue???</p>
<p>I went ahead and submitted because of the deadline, and it let me. It’s just weird how it let me though. I’m just worried if it will cause a problem in the system or something…</p>
<p>Any specific date for when EA decisions roll out? (I know they’re mid-Decemberish)</p>
<p>Last year they were 12/15 at 12:15 PM.</p>
<p>I had my interview 15 days ago, so I just filled out a conducted interview form. The name of my EC is spelled incorrectly on myMIT account (but the email is correct), so I put in the correctly spelled name in the interview conducted form’s box. Should I have done this? After filling out the form, I got an email from <a href=“mailto:admissions@mit.edu”>admissions@mit.edu</a>, but the only things in the email were my name, MIT ID (which is different than the ID on myMIT account), interview date, and interviewer name (which is the one entered in the box). I am slightly confused by this; shouldn’t this email go to MIT admissions? (It doesn’t list MIT admissions as one of the recipients…)</p>
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The exact date will be announced after the admissions officers start selection committee. In past years, the announcement has been made between about Dec 5 and Dec 10. Until then, anything anyone has to say is total speculation – the decision date depends entirely on how quickly the admissions officers are able to get through selection committee.</p>
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I’m sure they’re a bcc recipient – this email is probably a copy of the information that goes to them.</p>
<p>@molliebatmit
Yeah I was thinking that too. But the thing is only the name of my interviewer was spelled incorrectly (by one letter); the email address was still right. So should I have put the correctly spelled name in the box? Because technically I was interviewed by the EC on myMIT (even though her name was spelled wrong). I hope I didn’t mess anything up in the system… Also, nothing new appeared on myMIT after I filled out the form…</p>
<p>I had a supplemental recommendation with the cover sheet sent in a few weeks ago. I can’t seem to find a place on MyMIT that mentions the supplement, so is there any way to verify its receipt? Should I just email admissions?</p>
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This is not going to be an issue – don’t worry about it. The conducted interview form is reviewed manually (which is why it didn’t immediately update for you on MyMIT), and the admissions staff will immediately be able to tell that you were interviewed by your assigned EC.</p>
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No, there isn’t any way to verify the receipt of supplemental materials, unfortunately.</p>
<p>My son applied a few days before the Nov. 1st date…and it seems that his secondary school report and teacher recommendations are not showing up as being processed yet. Does this take a while for these items to be marked on his MyMIT site? We know that all of those items were sent out by his high school guidance office and were postmarked before Nov. 1st. Should my son contact MIT to make sure those items were received? Or will they contact him if items are missing?</p>
<p>Admissions will contact your son if they are missing anything. And don’t worry, admissions says to give them about 2 weeks to process any documents.</p>
<p>Thanks for the quick (and reassuring) reply, Rothstem. :)</p>
<p>Hi, I have two questions. One is that I recently checked my application on my MIT dashboard and it says that my testing requirements, recommendations, and school report still are not in despite the fact that my guidance counselor said she sent them in. Another applicant from my school said that these were checked off for her, so I am wondering if there is a problem. Will this hurt my application?</p>
<p>Also, I submitted a musical supplement via the slideroom website on November 1st but I recently realized that my music teacher never got my recommendation request. I just resent it and she will hopefully get it in very soon, is this okay/past the deadline?</p>
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rothstem is absolutely correct, I just want to expand a bit on the mail-sorting process.</p>
<p>When all however-many-thousand pieces of mail arrive at the admissions office’s mail room, they are opened and sorted by the mail staff. At this point, they are sorted into mail pieces of a particular type (there’s a stack of Evaluation As, a stack of transcripts, etc.). They are then sorted into the folders of individual applicants, and then the MyMIT dashboard is updated manually. As you can imagine, at this time of year, there is a huge backlog of mail, even though the mail staff is very dedicated and hard-working.</p>
<p>In a typical year, the sorting of the mail will not be completed until 2-3 weeks after the application deadline. When the mail is done being sorted, the admissions office will post a blog entry to this effect, and they’ll contact (by email) anyone who is missing application components and give them a chance to re-submit.</p>
<p>So having outstanding components of your application at this point is completely normal, and nothing to worry about. It doesn’t have any bearing on your application, just on the particular USPS bin where your package was sitting in the mail room. </p>
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Yes, it’s fine. The admissions office is pretty lenient about these sorts of things – they realize that the behavior of your teachers and your guidance counselors is not really within your power to control. :)</p>
<p>I’m sorry if asking about missing materials is annoying, but is it normal for materials to not be processed if they were submitted through Naviance (a week ago), and not mail? Also, WatermelonFelon posted that he/she received an email from mitadmissions after the interview conducted form was submitted. I submitted the form and didn’t get an email, and my interviewer’s contact info is still on myMIT, but the box is checked. Is all of this normal? Again, I’m sorry if I’m asking too many questions (:</p>
<p>Hi Mollie,</p>
<p>My son applied EA and I have a question regarding the college transcript. Does he still need to send official college transcripts even though his high school transcript shows the grades for the college classes? One more question: is there any way to submit research papers or technical reports to MIT other than just the abstracts? Please let us know. Thanks for your help!</p>