<p>So yours truly might stand a chance of living on campus? ;)</p>
<p>:)</p>
<p>As a response to a couple of you who asked how anyone could possibly turn down an MIT offer of admission, I knew quite a few students admitted to the class of 2009 last year. Schools chosen over MIT among those I know were: Stanford, Princeton, Harvard, Columbia, Berkeley, and Olin. (But 7 of the 13 admitted from my son's class did accept the offer. :) ) The one MIT-Caltech cross-admit I know did not choose to attend either.</p>
<p>Well, I'm fairly sure that even in the pre-freshmen-on-campus days, freshmen had to live in approved Institute housing -- so either a dorm or a fraternity/sorority/independent living group. Back then, as now, few MIT students lived in apartments.</p>
<p>I just have a very serious problem with FOC because it destroys the dorm communities. Male freshmen move in, hang out for a while, then pledge fraternities and commence spending all their time at the fraternity. It's bad for us (fewer people in our community, more people who stay for one year then leave), it's bad for the fraternities (financially and in depledge numbers).</p>
<p>And it's not necessarily that class size would be a great deal larger (class size in the pre-FOC era was similar to what it is now), but there wasn't such a delicate balance between yield and dorm crowding. Living in a quintuple in Baker isn't most people's idea of fun.</p>
<p>But I don't mean to thread-jack. I'm sure most of you aren't really sure what the heck I'm talking about. :)</p>
<p>Thanks for the clarification Ben Jones, Olo, and molliebatmit. It really is a relief to hear that there aren't as many applicants as I thought. Also, when </p>
<p>Also, Ben Jones: Would you happen to know where one can find the discusses statistics? Or is this EC-classified information :-).</p>
<p>I believe the stats from last year have been posted in a thread somewhere on this forum (if not I'm sure LSA or Olo has committed them to memory :) ); as for this year's, they won't be released for awhile.</p>
<p>Hey, I got the first 1200 digits of pi down. Some admissions stats aren't much harder.</p>
<p>Honestly, the only statistic that matters it that the admission rate of people who don't apply is 0%. :)</p>
<p>EDIT: and yeah, I <em>really</em> need to get my ID changed to Timur. ;-)</p>
<p>If you want people to know you're Timur, then yes. LSA, on the other hand, loves being incognito. ;)</p>
<p>Hehe, indeed! I signed up here thinking I was just going to lurk, but you all pulled me in too quickly!</p>
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