Saw that there wasn’t a thread for this year’s WL. Anyone hear anything yet?
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I wouldn’t get your hopes up too high.
Last year, the yield was 85% (given 1337 acceptances) and zero were admitted off the waitlist. I would predict yield might tick up very slightly.
There’s East Campus renovations occurring so the number of acceptances are a bit lower (1259). Actually I’ll try to swing by East Campus this weekend (East Side Festival this Saturday, EC/Senior Haus/Bexley alumni were invited).
As of today, May 1st, so all comMITs from last week, that number is already at 930.
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Thank you so much for the stats. When do you think MIT will come back and deliver the (bad) news to us WL’d people?
My thought is that if they aren’t going to open the waitlist, we’ll find out this week, and probably before Friday even. They didn’t open the waitlist last year, and it came out on May 11, which was a Wednesday. I think it was May 8 some other year they didn’t open it. I think they probably wait a week or so plus some business days to see if other schools’ waitlist movement disrupts their enrollment.
If they do open it, I bet they’ll take a little longer since they’ll have to pick who exactly they’ll admit, but probably still before the 20th would be my bet. I can’t imagine the AOs would enjoy pondering this topic much longer lol.
Honestly, I know the odds are close to null, but having a final answer will be nice to fully, mentally commit to where I’m going this fall!
Same here. If they intended to enroll 1100 students this year, the yield needs to be 87.37% for reaching the goal. That is a high number considering so many students getting MIT and other T5 offers…Finger crossed…
Looks like someone did get off the WL…
https://www.reddit.com/r/ApplyingToCollege/comments/13913me/waitlist_success_stories/
Look at the last post here.
He is an international student?
He also get off waitlisted from PennState? PennState acceptance rate is like over 50%.
Very likely tr*lling.
Probably a tr*ll, because people do that all the time on A2C lol. Pretty consistently, MIT has posted all waitlist decisions – including rejections – all at once, not one at a time. You can read up on it on their previous waitlist decision releases. They don’t do it in waves.
Okay… so, not to jinx anything, but given the amount of time that has passed, I think it’s fairly likely that they are opening the waitlist. I’m saying this based on the usual times that they’ve released waitlist decisions – in recent years, it’s been at most 8 business days after May 1st when they’ve announced that the waitlist has closed (2017-2022, excluding 2020, which went on until July 30th because of uncertainty about COVID). Today marks the 8th business day afterwards, and it’s long after 7 pm, which is the latest time of day a waitlist decision has come out too.
IMO, either they’re taking their time with the waitlist decisions because they are choosing who to admit OR there are special circumstances we don’t know about, who knows.
I like this hopeful thinking! Announce tomorrow and result at the end of next week?
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Not 100% sure on this part, but I don’t think they give much of a heads up about releasing decisions. From what I can tell, I think they send an email about the status update and probably link the blog post that accompanies it, but other than that, I don’t think they give any warning. So it’s more along the lines of just waiting for news any day now.
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The way it works at all the schools I know of: those getting an offer off of the WL will get a call from an AO to confirm their interest. Once all admitted students have committed, they then either release an update on the website or send out an email to all remaining WL students that the WL is now closed.
In short: those getting an offer aren’t going to find out from their portal - they’ll already know.
I think it might be different for MIT mainly because of these posts in recent years where they opened the waitlist:
https://www.reddit.com/r/ApplyingToCollege/comments/nepjnw/mit_waitlist_decision/
https://www.reddit.com/r/ApplyingToCollege/comments/6agaos/mit_waitlist_decisions_are_out/
Partially because of the timing and the comments.
I could be wrong though! The people in these posts may have found out beforehand and were just posting about the official news – there’s always more than what meets the eye lol.
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Hi. Do you guys know if they accept any students from the waitlist? İf so, how are they informed? Since there’s time gap between US and other countries, calling is not always possible, IMO
Praying for an admit, but my grades are pretty terrible due to senioritis (two Cs, three Bs, two As). Will that make it impossible to get in off the waitlist?
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I think there’s a chance tomorrow’s the day. If it is, probably will come out some time after 3, most likely around 5 PM EST (since historically, that’s the time they have preferred.) If not tomorrow, probably the day after.
Generally, I think it’ll come out soon. I’d be shocked if it came out any later than that since it would likely imply some special circumstances, and this year’s admission cycle seems relatively unremarkable other than a return to test-required policy. Other than 2020’s odd situation, in the past ten years, the latest date waitlist news (positive or not) has come out is May 17 in 2021, 11 business days post-5/1. For us, that would be May 16 this year (Tuesday).
Source: every single MIT admissions blog post about waitlist news from 2013 until now. lol. took a little bit of prolonged searching on the internet to find, but it IS senior spring and i’m bored and google searching while watching the Bridgerton spinoff of “Queen Charlotte” is a fun little pastime.
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Just a feeling, but I think that they’ll take more than previous years’ waitlist this year, that’s why I think that the results are going to be announced on Wednesday, at the earliest
I agree that they’ll probably take more people off the waitlist this year than they usually do, so I understand your point!
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