@MITChris, Question about wait listed students?

[wildwood888]

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<li>Do you rank wait listed students? </li>
<li>Do you still meet the need for wait listed students?</li>
<li>Approximately when you start contacting them ?</li>
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<p>Thank you.</p>

[MITChris]

<p>1) no</p>

<p>2) yes</p>

<p>3) may</p>

[wildwood888]

<p>Thank you very much.</p>

[dunkmaster]

<p>If wait-listed students aren’t ranked, how does MIT actually decide who on the wait-list get offers?</p>

<p>Is it area based (if someone in a particular region declines their offer, another from the same region will get the spot), or interest/activity based, or some combination? Or is it those who show the most interest in MIT will get the place?</p>

<p>Apologies if this is a question which you’re not allowed to answer.</p>

[PiperXP]

<p>They re-evaluate the entire pool of people who have chosen to remain on the waitlist.</p>

[wildwood888]

<p>Really? Do they have that much time to review the entire pool which could be near 1000 students?</p>

[molliebatmit]

<p>Well, they’ve already reviewed the whole RD pool of several thousand students, so reviewing everybody who chooses to remain on the waitlist once more isn’t really too much of a task for them. </p>

<p>Anyway, not everybody chooses to remain on the waitlist. If the admissions officers decide that they will be able to go to the waitlist, they will meet in selection committee one last time to discuss all applicants who have chosen to remain on the waitlist, and to select the number from those students that they are able to select.</p>

[dunkmaster]

<p>The question is, how exactly do they do this? Would it be exactly the same as how they decided who they admitted, or would they take into account those who have decided not to accept their places, with respect to regions/interests etc.?</p>

[lidusha]

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Who do you admit from the waitlist? For example, if someone from state X or major Y declines, are you likely to look for another student like them?</p>

<p>If we go to the waitlist, we will consider what our class looks like as one factor in choosing students. But we’re not strict about it. So, if an oboe player decides to go somewhere else, we may, or may not, try to take another oboe player.

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<p>[Waitlist</a> FAQ | MIT Admissions](<a href=“http://mitadmissions.org/blogs/entry/waitlist-faq]Waitlist”>Waitlist FAQ | MIT Admissions)</p>

[dunkmaster]

<p>Ah, thanks.</p>

[saeedajmal]

<p>@ MITChris …Can you please tell us how many international students were wait listed? …How many international students accepted wait list spots in the previous years and how many of them were admitted off the wait list, if possible? I would be extremely grateful.</p>

[snow2008]

<p>Can wait list student submit an additional recommendation letter from teacher? Is it help?</p>

[PiperXP]

<p>^ You may continue sending updates, but please don’t unless you think it’s actually new information to add to your application</p>