<p>@MITChris How many total application did MIT have this year?</p>
<p>Congrads to all that got accepted !</p>
<p>Accepted! (Against all odds, it seems.) Congrats to all those accepted! To all others, keep your heads up, and best of luck on the rest of your college decisions!</p>
<p>Rejected…
Props to the sad song thread.</p>
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<p>18,109. We admitted 1620.</p>
<p>Son got accepted! still shocked!</p>
<p>@MITChris - thanks</p>
<p>MIT accepted less students this year than last year?</p>
<p>REJECTED, and thank God too. My parents made me apply, but now I can go to the school I actually want to attend.</p>
<p>Congrats to everyone who got in. But, to those admitted, here are some uniquely MITish dangers to be wary of:</p>
<pre><code> 1- Falling victim to the unusually high auto-mortality rate
2- Getting pneumonia in the cold Cambridge winters
3- Becoming a knowledgeable, amoral tool of some company or institution that takes advantage of your mental capacity while denying your innate humanity.
4- Hyperfocusing yourself completely into a single field of study
5- Believing that grades and test scores matter
6- Substituting genuine human relationships with facts and figures (i.e. worshipping science)
7- Always thinking towards the future and the next step as opposed to living in the present.
8- Becoming incredibly stressed and experiencing fantastic levels of sleep deprivation
So yeah, anyways, congratulations to everyone who got accepted. But be cautious before accepting the offer of admissions, because not all of you would be happy there. Actually, I'd venture that only a very few of you would be genuinely happy there.
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<p>@jrftkd: grapes are sour to those who are filled with wrath. deeply think of consequences, after and before.</p>
<p>@NevadaKid: That reminded me of a quote by Pascal:</p>
<p>“In each action we must look beyond the action at our past, present, and future state, and at others whom it affects, and see the relations of all those things. And then we shall be very cautious.”
-Blaise Pascal</p>
<p>Congrats to all those accepted!</p>
<p>@jrftkd if you are so happy that you didn’t get into MIT then please don’t bash on it. It’s an amazing school and most people are extremely happy there. Those 8 so-called “MIT dangers” you speak of do not apply to everyone and actually only apply to a few. Please stop trolling and allow everyone to be happy :)</p>
<p>Rejected! I kinda expected it but still a bummer</p>
<p>Rejected, as expected. Still stings a bit though…guess that just means I need to become awesome in college.</p>
<p>9/39 so far here. Interesting.</p>
<p>@lyxdeslic I chuckled at your comments on the bottom :). You have an amazing resume though you definitely earned a likely letter to Yale and I’m a bit surprised you didn’t even get a waitlist…</p>
<p>@lysdexlic Don’t be that guy who uses race as a factor. Yes it’s there, but just don’t. Obviously you have amazing qualities but from looking at your reaction, I’m not surprised at the outcome.</p>
<p>MIT admissions is not a meritocracy. It is ‘holistic,’ which is a euphemism for entirely subjective. </p>
<p>They would rather choose applicants based on demographics, so that they appear as politically correct as possible, rather than selecting the most qualified applicants. This is going to lead to MIT’s undoing.</p>
<p>Be happy if you were rejected. After all your in better company :)</p>
<p>lyxdeslic, you’re not doing any good by being negative. everyone has been ad hom attacking you, you arent helping your ideas’ cause.</p>
<p>Anyway, since the other thread got locked, I will repost this here:</p>
<p>Some schools, Harvard, are under investigation for precisely this reason of holistic admissions distorting meritocracy too far: </p>
<p>[Harvard</a> Targeted in U.S. Asian-American Discrimination Probe - Bloomberg](<a href=“Bloomberg - Are you a robot?”>Bloomberg - Are you a robot?)</p>
<p>Most people HAVE given a definition for meritocracy: Taking out factors like race and gender and considering everything else: Activities, passion, test scores, grades, award, etc.</p>
<p>stars, are you suggesting that lyxdeslic pursue litigation based on his MIT admissions decision?</p>