<p>WHAT DO WE DO NOW?!?! :\
other than wait.</p>
<p>Matt will have a post up in the next few days specifically for waitlisted students. In the meantime, you can look at his posts for waitlisted students from previous years (e.g. [last</a> year’s](<a href=“http://www.mitadmissions.org/topics/apply/the_selection_process_application_reading_committee_and_decisions/qa_for_the_waitlisted.shtml]last”>http://www.mitadmissions.org/topics/apply/the_selection_process_application_reading_committee_and_decisions/qa_for_the_waitlisted.shtml)).</p>
<p>Basically, after you return your postcard indicating that you’d like to accept a spot on the waitlist, you should consider sending supplemental material in late April – perhaps an extra recommendation, or just a note updating MIT on anything that’s happened since your application. </p>
<p>You should accept another college on your list by May 1. If MIT needs to use the waitlist, they will select as many students as they need in about the second week of May.</p>
<p>thank you!</p>
<p>I know that getting off the wait list is a long shot, but what some of the statistics regarding the list? like how many people opt to stay on the wait list? Being in limbo is kinda lame.</p>
<p>It’s different every year.</p>
<p>You can find this information for yourself on the [common</a> data set](<a href=“Home - MIT Institutional Research”>Home - MIT Institutional Research) and on [Matt’s</a> blog](<a href=“http://www.mitadmissions.org/topics/apply/the_selection_process_application_reading_committee_and_decisions/waitlist_news.shtml]Matt’s”>http://www.mitadmissions.org/topics/apply/the_selection_process_application_reading_committee_and_decisions/waitlist_news.shtml), but here are the waitlist results for the past few years.
**Year Waitlistees Accepted spot Admitted**
2008 739 ? 35
2007 439 443 20
2006 389 319 40
Prior to 2006, no one had been accepted from the waitlist for several years.</p>
<p>thanks for the quick replay!</p>
<p>so there is indeed hope =D</p>
<p>There is hope. It should also be noted that last years wait list was abnormally large. Last year, several competing schools had changed their policies regarding early admission, and as a result, MIT had much less confidence in their yield predictions for last year. I do not yet know, but I would guess (and it is a guess) that this years wait list will be significantly smaller than last years.</p>
<p>How many of you guys are going to stay on the list? I’m probably not going to because it’s too iffy.</p>
<p>I’m going to stay. It doesn’t hurt</p>
<p>For 2007, how can more people have accepted a spot on the wait list (443) than were waitlisted (439)?</p>
<p>^I was wondering the same thing…</p>
<p>Sorry! My mistake. The number of students placed on the waitlist in 2007 was 499, not 439.</p>