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<p>The admissions office will be less likely to waitlist you, however, because they don’t want to keep stringing you along.</p>
<p>^Deferring you means they still want you but couldn’t take you early round. Waitlisting says the same thing. If you keep being on the brink of getting accepted, they might not want to just throw away that chance altogether.</p>
<p>(I’m uncertain how Admissions operates in this case, but I’m saying there’s a reason for the other possibility. I have no idea what they actually do.)</p>
<p>It was a fair end, a fair rejection to me. Honestly, it was such a great time to be here in CC with everybody. And MITChris, I think we’re all grateful to your tolerance and helpfulness. And good luck to next-year applicants. Hope they will enjoy the ambivalence we have overcome this year</p>
<p>@Piper</p>
<p>One of the MIT admissions officers mentioned that to me in passing last week. I think they just want to make the process less painful for those they think might be better off just not waiting. I doubt, though, that it plays even a slightly major role in the process. Just for, maybe, a handful of people.</p>
<p>@OP, I’m glad you have such a mature attitude so soon after the decisions came out. I’m sorry to hear that you got rejected, I’m sure that you would have added something incredible to the campus, but wherever you end up, you’ll be happy.</p>
<p>Best of luck elsewhere!</p>
<p>well said, son. what are your next steps now?</p>
<p>If my application wasn’t strong enough for acceptance, I was clearly devoid in something when I applied. Whether that was leadership drive, a strong extra-curricular profile, good essays, or strong technological pursuits, if my application wasn’t strong enough to get accepted, that means one thing: I’m not a fit at mit.</p>
<p>I can’t bank on excuses like “I could have written better essays”. The sheer fact that I didn’t write better essays might prove I can’t handle responsibility well.</p>
<p>I can’t bank on excuses like “If only I would have joined more stupid clubs”. </p>
<p>MIT saw me through my application, whether that was the me I see in the mirror or the real me I put down on the page. I can rest solemnly knowing that, even though I longed so heavily to go to MIT, there is one less college for me to choose from in the grand scheme of things.</p>
<p>To all rejected applicants: you are applying to MIT. You have the drive to put together an application profile that is stronger than a great majority of the world’s college applicants. So what if you didn’t get accepted; you cared enough to try. That drive is proof that, wherever you get accepted, you will be great. Take a look at your options, and you might see that they aren’t that bad. If I don’t get accepted to any of my top schools (and there’s a high chance of that, I applied to UC Berkeley, Stanford, Cornell, and Northwestern), I still have financial safeties to fall back on. Though it would be crushing to get a pile full only of rejections, can I really feel bad? How many people have full rides to their state flagship university as a fall-back? How many people kill for opportunity to get modest financial aid to a state school. My situation is not bad, and I think I have the skills to make the most of it even in the event that I have to default to the University of New Mexico.</p>
<p>Congratulations all acceptances. I respect every one of you.
Take this rejection for what it’s worth, rejections; there are still opportunities for you. Make the most of them.</p>