<p>...you're just another school who's admissions officers smile and say that "OH everyone has a chance to get in" or "Don't worry nobody can give you an accurate chance at MIT you don't know what can happen" only to b i t ch- slap you so hard in the face with a deferral that you don't even have time to feel any emotions before you pass out on the floor wondering why you were so gullible as to follow the call of the Siren seductress. </p>
<p>Anyway, why the hell does MIT have to defer most of its applicants? Why can't it just finish the job in cutting my head off? Why does it torture me?</p>
<p>At least Stanford is nice enough to throw the drink in our faces and tell us straight up that we aren't good enough to make it into RD.</p>
<p>I know this is just the anger inside of me speaking now, but damn, I am an angry man. And I bet there are others who feel the same. Taken advantage of. </p>
<p>And don't try to assuage me with your faux comfort because I've had enough of your lies and MIT's lies. You may say "Ohhhh its just the luck of the draw. We weren't looking for your type". The truth is, I am not trying to be offensive, but all the people I know who got in were male or an under represented minority. College is a ruthless game.</p>
<p>My god dude, chill. I am also deferred and I felt/feel like I’m such a perfect match for MIT. And you know what? I’m just going to suck it up, work hard my second term, figure out what might be able to help me for RD, and enjoy my life. If you got deferred, obviously you’re going to be successful no matter what because you have the stats to apply to MIT. I mean you couldn’t have actually expected to get in 100% EA, could you? Especially with 6000+ applying early?</p>
<p>Appreciate the fact that you got deferred, unlike my two friends, one of which made his own programming compiler that can be used for FIRST Robotics and my other who has an extremely strong passion for biomed engineering because 3 of her siblings have autism.</p>
<p>Please, just appreciate what you have and move forward.</p>
<p>I have to admit that I don’t see the disconnect between Chris and the other admissions officers saying they can’t provide chances and the historical fact that about 70% of EA applicants are deferred to RD. This isn’t a secret.</p>
<p>I would hardly qualify this as an epic rant… I would like to believe that I held back just a little bit. </p>
<p>I’m not just speaking for me. You know the saying “where you find one cockroach theres a million hiding behind the wall”</p>
<p>Well I’m that idiot cockroach out in the open, waiting to get squished by all of you. I’m speaking for the thousands of other deferees who feel the same way. So don’t think that I’m sending you guys an invitation to my pity party because its certainly not that; this is the outpour of our crushed dreams.</p>
<p>Okay, okay “not getting into MIT is not the end of the world”</p>
<p>But the same people who tell me that also believe that the world will end in 2012.</p>
<p>Hey, MIT has its flaws, and it might not make the best decisions. But stop whining about this. You were deferred. You still have a chance of getting in. That’s more than I’ll ever have. MIT was nice enough to defer you so they can re-read your application and determine once and for all if you will be accepted. I’d take that over hundreds of people who could have potentially gotten in regular being rejected instead of deferred during early (they have less time to look at these during early, you know).</p>
<p>Also speaking from personal experience. Everyone does have a chance of getting accepted early if they apply. Some more so than others, but it’s not some big racial draft going on. Out of all my friends who have gotten accepted (about seven of them), only one was a URM and four were ORM. I know you’re just looking for excuses to vent because you feel some weird sense of entitlement but be reasonable here. What did you think posting on here was going to do? It certainly won’t help you get in.</p>
<p>Also, you’re not some martyr for the other thousands of people who got deferred. If anything you’re just a whiny kid who didn’t like what decision MIT gave him. Just grow up already.</p>
<p>Who said I was a martyr? I am just stating something that other people probably feel. </p>
<p>Why don’t you just unbunch your panties? I mean, getting them all into a bunch like that every time someone feels angry must get pretty annoying.</p>
<p>Let other people feel their feelings. I usually don’t even like to be boorish and explosive like this, but I’m damn agitated now.</p>
<p>No one needs you to tell them how they’re feeling. They can do that themselves. Also, you’re entitled to feel whatever feelings you’re feeling; but there’s no excuse for going so out of your way to ridicule and demean others. We have facebook for that stuff.</p>
<p>Actually, I’d really like to apologize. It seems I lashed out too much at you and unfairly so; and for that, I’m sorry. I was riding on a complex roller coaster of post-MIT rejection emotions, and I hope you can forgive me.</p>
<p>Many kids at my school applied (~40), and not a single Chinese/Korean/Japanese applicant was accepted early action. It’s mad funny. </p>
<p>Deferral isn’t so bad; at least for me, I’m going to go all out and not hide who I am anymore, because that’s kind of what I did on my early action app. I’m going to own this.</p>
<p>… I get that you’re hurt. Waiting longer sucks. But groundlessly calling MIT Admissions a bunch of liars just screams entitlement and immaturity (unless you have actual grounds – I’d be interested in hearing them).</p>
<p>I just think that this is the kind of feeling you will have to get used to, at least as long as you’re planning to stay in the most competitive levels of society. In science and engineering, it doesn’t get any easier after undergraduate applications – there are grad school and med school applications (some of which are significantly more brutal than top undergrad admissions, and done by people who don’t really care about applicants and their extenuating circumstances). There are fellowship applications. There are grant applications. </p>
<p>My co-worker and I spent about a month recently writing a 12-page grant application which our lab needs to be awarded for us to continue our research. The award rate for this grant is about 10%, and we’re competing with the top labs in the US, all of whom have interesting research and compelling applications. If we don’t get this award, and we probably won’t get it on the first try, we will be sad, but there’s no point in railing against the funding agency for being lying liars who lie and for allowing us to submit an application we didn’t get awarded. We will just buckle down and write the revision, and we will make it better, and hopefully it will be awarded.</p>
<p>Look, I don’t represent the MIT admissions office. I’m just an alum with an interest in talking with people about the school. And my side interest is to help you guys develop into scientists and engineers no matter where you end up. And if you’re going to do that, you’re going to have to develop some serious inner strength that doesn’t get bent out of shape when what you want isn’t immediately available.</p>