<p>@johannbach its just plain text</p>
<p>@sechukie I am also from Illinois, and I have the same Standard Denial Letter message when I log in, so I don’t think they’re adding it to the website region by region.</p>
<p>Guys I think we should look into this though. I’ve created a Survey Monkey survey. Please answer correctly and don’t ■■■■■.</p>
<p><a href=“https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/P6G8TTL”>https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/P6G8TTL</a></p>
<p><em>Edit</em> the purpose being if we get enough people to complete it, then we might be able to extrapolate some info. </p>
<p>@johannbach what’s that survey for?</p>
<p>i love how mit has glitches</p>
<p>@kmichelle I know it’d be statistically inaccurate, but given responses and past MITES admit rates, we could see whether it was actually legit or not.</p>
<p>@johannbach that’s an awesome idea.</p>
<p>Where do you find the standard denial letter? I didn’t find anything different when I logged into my application…</p>
<p>@ppfenni If there’s nothing there, then you don’t have a Standard Denial Letter. Some people got it, others didn’t. </p>
<p>OMG and then we can use the data to calculate p values for the number of degrees of freedom we have! And if p<0.05, then we’d know something is up</p>
<p>Hahah sorry nerd moment, im doing bio hw and i just had to</p>
<p>Lol idk if this is gonna calm you guys down, but as of now, the survey is literally 50-50. Granted, not many people have responded. So unless it’s being massively trolled, I wouldn’t worry.</p>
<p>@johannbach how many responses?</p>
<p>So in order to not lose my mind, I’ve concluded that it’s a glitch. If they had accidentally released denials early then I think the letter would actually open… After all, they probably use the same letters every year. Maybe all the ones they have gone thru so far have the letter, and later they’ll go back and change it since the majority get rejected anyways</p>
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<li>11 say yes, and 10 say no. </li>
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<p>Yeah, @sechukie p=1.6*10^-19, using previous MITES’ acceptance rate of ~5% as H0, so unless we’re being massively trolled, then, no, this is likely a glitch.</p>
<p>Sigh… this is making me very frightened because I received the “standard denial letter” too. Has MIT responded to anyone yet?</p>
<p>I sent an email and I only received the confirmation that they got it.</p>
<p>A 50/50 survey result may be because the MITES staff haven’t finished inputting all the information yet and are still processing other people’s decisions. They did say decisions would be within a couple of weeks, which means they’re still far from done.</p>
<p>Who knows, though. This is the first time they used this applications website (or at least they fancied it up a lot from last year) so glitches are certainly possible, and there was also the glitch earlier this year with teacher recs.</p>
<p>I live in Arizona and I don’t have the update. The first thing I see is “APPLICATION ROUND” and then there are updates about the application extension. I don’t know how you got the status update, but that isn’t an option for me. And honestly, I don’t think my chances of getting are that great, so it probably is a glitch.</p>
<p>@Apdenoatis Hmm I see that. But wait are you saying that the decisions posted ARE correct and that the people who didn’t receive a letter would be accepted? Just trying to get some more clarification XD</p>