The "prepare yourself for rejection" thread

Colleges and Universities A-Z Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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<p>caltech gets their decisions at 12pm pacific time today :)</p>

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<p>anyone ever look at the mychances site? According to it, I have a very unlucky life lol</p>

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<p>RAers don’t get tubes :(</p>

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<p>Yeah that site is pretty much useless.</p>

<p>It said I have an 80ish % chance of getting into Stanford. Right…</p>

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<p>it said I had a 25% of getting into Caltech. BUT I GOT IN. So take that stupid website!</p>

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<p>I got rejected from Caltech and that app was much better then my MIT one. There is no way im getting into MIT tomorrow</p>

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<p>Tomorrow !!!</p>

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<p>meh, waitlisted from CIT, not really expecting anything tomorrow now… -.-</p>

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<p>I wish I used my CalTech essays on my MIT app… since I EA MIT, my essays were bad in comparison</p>

<p>Good luck to everyone tomorrow!</p>

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<p>I guess I could always transfer after I get in my accepted top schools (but not very top)…</p>

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<p>I wonder, if you guys are accepted to both MIT and Caltech, which one would you choose?</p>

<p>good luck and godspeed!</p>

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<p>haha I can’t even dream of having that choice, but it would def be MIT</p>

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<p>@ dawncoming: I’m considering this too, in fact, with Princeton as another considerations as well.</p>

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<p>MIT, no doubt. It would be so, so, so amazing to have that choice.
Although I was not aware that RAers don’t get tubes, I think that’ll actually make me feel better if I’m rejected tomorrow haha.</p>

<p>@feux, I can’t believe you were waitlisted!! The admissions officers must just be insane. That’s really shocking, I’m sorry :frowning:
I bet tomorrow will work out for you. If you get into MIT and I don’t, let’s switch college acceptances. I’ll force you to. :D</p>

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<p>wait. im confused.</p>

<p>a friend of mine who applied to MIT EA and got deferred said that tomorrow’s decision is either acceptance or rejection. no deferral.</p>

<p>is that just for EA? or for RD, which i applied, as well?</p>

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<p>tomorrow is for anyone who applied for undergraduate admissions… and their is also a waitlist in addition to accept/reject</p>

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<p>This is rather depressing…</p>

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<p>How enlightening you are.</p>

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<p>I really like that site. Sometimes it glitches up though; I feel like usually the 0%s are glitches; if it really were hopeless, you’d get like a 0.2% or something.
It’s hard to interpret those chances though – like what if you get a 45%? That’s much better than the acceptance rate, but still less than 50/50, which is not very good. What are you supposed to think about a 45%?</p>