To the Rejected of 2012

Colleges and Universities A-Z Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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<p>Hey, everyone! </p>

<p>So, we were rejected. Punch a wall (not recommended), scream into a pillow (highly recommended), curse MIT out (no one's going to hold it against you if you say "F*** you"), bawl like a baby, or raise an eyebrow at the decision window and exit out of it. </p>

<p>We loved you, MIT, be it from the bottom of our hearts or through rose-tinted glasses. Like many others, you were my first choice, and I believed for a little while that we were made for each other.</p>

<p>Now, we wash our hands of you (unless some of us decide to drop by for grad school), and move on with our lives. After all, our lives are only just beginning, and letting the rejection of this tech school ruin our fun is, no offense, kind of stupid!</p>

<p>My most sincere congratulations to the admitted. Go show MIT what this generation's all about! Prove to us that you deserve to be there instead of us.</p>

<p>But, please, excuse me; I have other fish to fry now. (Columbia <3)</p>

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<p>Amen.</p>

<p>(extra characters to let me post)</p>

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<p>Haha. That's the attitude. Cheers to you, I'm sure you'll go far.</p>

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<p>or you could have just typed "10 char"</p>

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<p>Yeah... and MIT is the only school I applied to...
i was too confident haha</p>

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<p>qihqi: Oh, that does suck. Well, now you can take a gap year, right? Get a break from all those studies :) No matter what school I get into, I'm definitely taking a year off. Need to get away from all this academic craziness.</p>

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<p>well I'd prob go to local school...i m international...all they have there is a entrance exam...</p>

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<p>Hi all, should we create FACEBOOK::LOGIN for us :D . Maye we could create online school which is intended to compete with MIT lol</p>

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<p>we seriously need a facebook MIT class of '12 rejected group. dunno maybe we can go off and set up our own school lol like in that movie rejected or was it called admitted?</p>

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<p>Are you in China, qihqi? Just curious.</p>

<p>grad school, baby!</p>

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<p>heheh I am chinese but I am now in Ecuador... it also have the entrance exam thing... just each school have their own exam...
yeah grad school reloaded!!
let's promise to be here fighting again after 4 years</p>

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Hey, everyone!</p>

<p>So, we were rejected. Punch a wall (not recommended), scream into a pillow (highly recommended), curse MIT out (no one's going to hold it against you if you say "F*** you"), bawl like a baby, or raise an eyebrow at the decision window and exit out of it.

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<p>All pointless things to do, but I started thinking about other colleges that I applied to, and planning around that. </p>

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We loved you, MIT, be it from the bottom of our hearts or through rose-tinted glasses. Like many others, you were my first choice, and I believed for a little while that we were made for each other.

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<p>Why did you tint your glasses red? And they can't accept everyone, so I'm trying to not take it personally. Oh yes, and I think there's a lot more I could've done during High School. Of course I'm sad and disappointed, but I think the decision they made was fair and right. There are plenty of students who gave it 100% during high school and I just wasn't one of them. </p>

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Now, we wash our hands of you (unless some of us decide to drop by for grad school), and move on with our lives. After all, our lives are only just beginning, and letting the rejection of this tech school ruin our fun is, no offense, kind of stupid!

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<p>Going for grad school would be pretty sweet. </p>

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But, please, excuse me; I have other fish to fry now. (Columbia <3)

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<p>Johns Hopkins <3</p>

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<p>HAHA. I saw accepted and rejected student's stats. So i realized that accepted students doesn't have to have a high score on SAT and have a good EC's. If you have a really good stats your chance will be decresed, seems like</p>

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<p>Found this on Ben's MIT blog for the rejected. Whoever wrote it you, thankyou. It made us laugh so hard. Good luck</p>

<p>""" to Dear MIT Committee Members: </p>

<p>""Thanks for your notification of March 15th. After careful consideration, I regret to inform you that I am unable to accept your rejection at this time. </p>

<p>This year I have been particularly fortunate in receiving an unusually large number of rejection letters. </p>

<p>With such a varied and promising field of schools, it is impossible for me to accept all refusals. </p>

<p>Despite your outstanding record and previous experience in rejecting applicants,
I find that your rejection does not meet my current career needs. </p>

<p>Consequently, I will begin taking classes as a undergraduate student in your electrical engineering department.</p>

<p>I look forward to seeing you then. </p>

<p>Best of luck in rejecting future applicants. </p>

<p>Sincerely Yours, Anonymous #2</p>

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<p>That is a brilliant anonymous post.</p>

<p>Also, to al6200:</p>

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Why did you tint your glasses red?

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<p>I don't think I tinted my glasses so much as I had extreme tunnel vision. For a very long time, I thought that all other schools sucked compared to MIT. I realized one day that though MIT is better than many schools, there are just as many schools that equal or even outshine MIT. For example, I doubt MIT's biomedical engineering program is as strong as JHU's or its humanities as diverse as Columbia's. (Though, yes, many of MIT's science/math classes go practically unmatched.)</p>

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<p>Yeah, I'm trying to think about how great JHU or CMU would be, just to, you know, focus on other things.</p>

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<p>lol, I was kind of depressed for, cough, a whole day (ashamed), but seeing this thread, I really feel better now. :D </p>

<p>Yeah, focus on other schools! But it's kind of hard for me since I need to wait till april to hear from other schools. :(</p>

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<p>now it feels really good to have a company
thanks guys for making me feel better
it's slightly hard to digest
there is truly not much difference between the accepted and the rejected if you were to test their abilties
probably it's only that some appear better on papers and can present themselves better than others.</p>

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<p>I saw that comment too. It was so funny!</p>

<p>I sometimes consider that all this college admission is a little bit random. I mean, you don't even know why you were accepted or rejected. maybe with one more sentence in the essay an applicant would have been admitted, also if they knew you had much more activities than those 5 you mentioned. I agree, it's all about how you know to sell yourself.</p>

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<p>^agreed, although it's difficult to gauge how what they want to see could fit into how you sell yourself.</p>