MIT waitlist contact person

[zoogies]

<p>I've been poking around a few sources and thinking about how to keep in touch with MIT over the next month or two, and the soundest and most common advice seems to be to find a contact at the admissions office, i.e, an admissions counselor. </p>

<p>Caltech made this very easy by supplying an email of the local admissions counselor in their waitlist letter.</p>

<p>I called up MIT earlier today asking for the contact of an admissions officer with whom I can keep in contact, but they told me to just send everything to the general Admissions at MIT email...which seems a little awkward to me, throwing everything into a nameless, faceless box which probably won't respond...so I'm not really sure what to do at this point.</p>

<p>Is this just like being deferred? I remember when I was deferred I made an elaborate essay-type thing and sent it in with a cover letter, but that wasn't really "being in contact" with the admissions office...any suggestions?</p>

<p>{hey, postcount 1,000...hehe}</p>

[mootmom]

<p>zoogies, some schools have regional admissions officers who handle specific parts of the country/world, but as you know, MIT does not. They've always said the right thing to do is to send "whatever" to the general Admissions address. You might not, in fact, get a response, but your input will not be discarded, it will certainly be kept with your file for review and consideration if the waitlist opens up in May.</p>

<p>(PS: Congrats, "Senior Member" zoogies! :) )</p>

[lowofo]

<p>I second mootmom's point. When I was deferred, I sent an e-mail to an adcounselor asking them whether I could fly in and meet them for another interview. The response was, not surprisingly, no, but the response did say that they would put the letter in my file.</p>

<p>Same thing when I visited campus last year and chatted with a student working in admissions office.</p>