<p>I don't think they know yet, because there are still a whole bunch of people who haven't sent in their replies! :-P</p>
<p>You wanna beat 'em up, or should I?</p>
<p>looks like a few will come in off the waitlist - yield is up significantly however - up to 69%. I don't want to get into the debate here - but it could be that the holistic admission policies allowed for admits of more students who don't have a Harvard/Caltech/Princeton choice and MIT is a great admit for them - thereby increasing the yield. I hope this leads to a proud and excited freshman class and maybe some school spirit (e.g. more cheering at the football games!!)</p>
<p>O.K. Beam me up MIT!</p>
<p>Sent in my decision via express mail -- 'cos I waited 'till the last minute to make up my mind. However, what's this about a postcard I'm supposed to have received?</p>
<p>I chose Stanford. Sorry mollie, I sent in my reply card a day late.</p>
<p>I chose MIT!!! (a while ago....: )</p>
<p>69% of you chose MIT :D!!!</p>
<p>Someone asked for clarification on that comment.</p>
<p>This figure (69%) is the total yield (the percentage of students offered admission who decided to enroll at MIT).</p>
<p>This is pretty close to what MIT had predicted, and thus we will be utilizing the waitlist (as intended!!!) to fill up the last few remaining spots.</p>
<p>Colleges always over accept students because they know in advance not everyone will be accepting their offer of admission. Thus colleges like MIT will admit 2000 people when they can in reality only fit 1200 people. They can do this because they can get a good prediction on how many people will actually come based upon previous years. They call this yield.</p>
<p>Hope that helps :D!</p>
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I don't think they know yet, because there are still a whole bunch of people who haven't sent in their replies! :-P</p>
<p>You wanna beat 'em up, or should I?
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<p>I'll help. I mean, I sent a letter to MIT on May 1st stating in no uncertain terms that I would attend if they admit me off the waitlist (and since high yield is what colleges look for from the waitlist, hopefully that will help). I can't imagine that someone who wants to attend MIT couldn't even be bothered to send in their decision on time after being admitted, but apparently that's the case, since they were just able to release numbers today. I would have sent my "yes" in December if I had had the opportunity, so I just don't understand the mentality of people who waited into May.</p>
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I would have sent my "yes" in December if I had had the opportunity, so I just don't understand the mentality of people who waited into May.
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<p>Financial aid. I was admitted to MIT on March 17th, but had to wait until just before May 1st in order to actually accept the offer of admission, because I couldn't know if our family would have the means to pay for it if they gave a poor financial aid offer.</p>
<p>MIT! But with no aide...(stupid FAFSA EFC)</p>
<p>Have to agree with "engrishGamer" re-financial aid, or lack thereof.</p>
<p>Silver lining: No financial aid makes outside scholarships all the more wonderful! "YES money I can actually USE!!! A miracle of miracles!"</p>
<p>And so financial aid is money one cannot use? Or do you (dally) just want everyone to know you won an outside scholarship?</p>
<p>^ Certainly not the second, because I fully expect that well over half of the people here have also won outside scholarships. Besides, mine are not even that much. I was really just trying to say that you appreciate the small outside scholarships more when you're not also receiving $10,000 a year from the school itself. You're right, though - it was kind of a dumb post.</p>