MIT is my dream school and I would certainly like to attend, but I was waitlisted.
Instead I was accepted into Harvard and several top ivy League schools with huge amounts of financial aid. I also have been accepted into some other competitive colleges with full merit-based scholarships.
Should I mention that I have been accepted into all those colleges in my Waitlist update form? I would definitely prefer MIT over all of them and attend MIT if I am admitted.
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Should I mention that I have been accepted into all those colleges in my Waitlist update form?
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Doing so will not help you at all.
Tell MIT why you want to go there, and anything new that might be relevant about your progress in academics, hobbies, projects since January 1st.
Its still bragging rights, to get wait listed at MIT, but maybe see if you can get excited about one of your other options. Ivy League is not better or worse than MIT, just different. Typically they offer both a broader student body and possibly a broader education as well as very different extracurriculars, and different opportunities you may not have evaluated yet.
The fact that you got into Ivy League colleges may say something about your breadth and the admissions officers evaluation of your fit, though. Think more about what you want to study, and evaluate each school for your needs.
If Harvard is on your list of acceptances, you can cross register, in a limited way at MIT. However Harvard may or may not be your best fit, so evaluate your choices carefully.
Some Ivy League math, science and engineering departments are very strong, what do you intend to study?
Any word to whether they are going to the wait list this year?
@nstasi None yet. But in past years where no students were taken off the wait list, MIT notified wait listed applicants that the yield had been larger than expected in the first week of May.
I would say that it is very likely that the wait list will be used this year.
Anyone off the waitlist yet?
@Middleschoolmoom MIT announces wait list decisions for everyone on the same day at the same time. Probably this Friday.
Any guess on how many slots will open up for MIT 2020 waitlist? Here’s my guess:
Admitted=1485
Target-Enrollment=1120
Implicit Yield = 75.4%
Historic Yields: 2015-73%, 2014-72.4%, 2013-73%
So, for 2016, yield vs slots:
72.5 - 43
73.0 - 36
73.5 - 29
74.0 - 21
74.5 - 14
75.0 - 6
75.4 - 0
MIT does not do a multi-wave waitlist process, they build in a yield for their waitlist as well. The actual numbers should be a little higher.
Also, as a comparison, Harvard has the highest yield of around 80%, so as one gets closer to this number, the improvement YOY in yields start to diminish. Perhaps wishful thinking, but jumps in yield that MIT experienced between 2011 (60%) to 2013 (73%) - beyond which it stabilized - should not be that dramatic moving forward (perhaps 1-1.5% per year). I would guess a 74% yield for 2016.
Also, historically, around 88-90% of prospects offered a waitlist will actually accept. So, there should be around 390-ish students that have shown ongoing interest.
@telcarino - not sure if you can do this, but can you change the title of this thread from MIT Waitlist to MIT 2020 Waitlist so it’s well indexed and searchable for future waitlistees. Thanks.
26 slots will be offered today at 5pm. http://mitadmissions.org/blogs/entry/class-of-2020-wait-list-decisions
DD got off the Waitlist, got an email at about 4:40pm, has until 25th to respond, east coast, ORM