<p>I hope I wasn't the one they changed their minds about.</p>
<p>no e-mail..
oh well berkeley here i come</p>
<p>So who's in? Who's out? Whose still on?</p>
<p>Good Luck, Mathwiz, though at the end of the day, Olin's not a shabby alternative. </p>
<p>Cawaiigirl - I think Berkeley is another terrific place - the Bay Area is a very attractive part of the country!</p>
<p>Congrats to everyone who got the response they were hoping for :). And for everyone in general, at least the waiting period's finally over.</p>
<p>My son got in =)</p>
<p>A girl from an international school in Taiwan got off the waiting list! They're definitely contacting everyone at this point.</p>
<p>LOL oasis i know her too. she's in my math class ahahahahah.</p>
<p>Has anyone heard any bad news from MIT?</p>
<p>I haven't gotten the reject letter neither</p>
<p>I got the bad letter today in Connecticut.</p>
<p>Forgive my ignorance, but how on earth does MIT justify putting 500 kids on a waitlist and not have the 96% that don't get in think anything other than MIT's waitlist is just another form of rejection letter?</p>
<p>^ Is Harvard or Yale's waitlist any different?</p>
<p>HappyPoet - that's a very good question.</p>
<p>Personally, I'd wonder how they justify sending an email notification to 20 students, then snail-mailing a rejection letter to an undisclosed number, while leaving the rest of the ~400 completely in the dark for weeks.</p>
<p>This is basic information management and distribution. They've set up a system where acceptance equals an email and denial equals no email, but the problem with that is that denial is not the only reason for no email; misspellings and server errors also contribute. And then they further decide to use postal mail to notify another subgroup that they're not going to get off the waitlist, but there are still some applicants (and who knows how many) who will remain on the waitlist until all of the first 20 have made their decisions, but again, they don't know who they are because of the notorious unreliability of the postal service and the apparent inability of the admissions office to email more than 20 people at once.</p>
<p>Has anyone gotten the bad letter in Cali yet???</p>
<p>My theory on waitlisting large numbers of people is that they then have more leeway to take people who are really interested or accomplish something important in the Spring - it gives the college a way of getting better/more interested people off their waitlist, and marginally improving their yield/quality of student body. It helps the college, and while it is somewhat stressful to the applicant, a "Polite rejection" isn't necessarily a bad thing - it's nice to know that the college didn't think you were a horrible applicant.</p>
<p>Master of Balances... this e-mail/snail-mail episode sounds <em>exactly</em> like their confetti tube fiasco for EA in Dec. of '06. MIT mailed the confetti tubes with acceptances well before they started mailing the denied letters. Kids all across the country were waiting for days on end for the mail carrier to bring a big tube filled with confettit that never came of course. It was disgusting and so was Marilee Jones's blog that yelled at those upset, BUT you won't find Marilee's blogs anymore because MIT took them down -- how's that for openness and transparency?</p>
<p>Like I said back then, but was attacked and ignored for it -- there's something not right with Marilee (and don't we all know now what it is) and the entire Admissions Dept. should be cleaned out. Since they made the same mistake with her gone, it's obvious her stink still lingers.</p>
<p>It gets me so mad they made this mistake again. I really should go outside and count to ten right now, then come back to the keyboard and delete my comments about Marilee Jones, who I thought I forgave, but now I feel I'm far from being able to do that. At this point, I'm realizing it's MIT who is truly, ultimately at fault.</p>
<p>MIT should do the planet a favor and fire everyone in that department <em>before</em> they go making yet ANOTHER similar mistake next EA, for the third year in a row. They're pretty stupid in that department, aren't they? </p>
<p>It's called GroupThink, and MIT should know better, considering we'll be paying them a QUARTER MILLION DOLLARS as a full-pay tuition family. The people in that office should be stellar, just like everyone else at MIT. </p>
<p>I'll be calling the Admissions Department in the morning -- enough is enough, and I'm through keeping my complaints to blogs on the Internet. </p>
<p>MIT really should have known better.</p>
<p>I remarked on Matt's blog about the adcoms not learning from the confetti tube fiasco. Never got a reply, not that I'm surprised at that.</p>
<p>As much as I try to tell myself that the quality of the education doesn't depend on the quality of the admissions office, I think I might be better off at RPI after all. At least MIT graduate admissions goes through the professors, which is a much better system.</p>
<p>Dear god, will this ever end? MasterofBalances and HappyPoet, please get over your bitterness. You dwell in this, and it only makes you more sour. Get off the college forums, go outside, and have some fun. If that's too much to ask, then take a deep breath, hold it in, and then let it all go. There are better things in life to do than to harbor ill feelings towards a process over which you have limited control. Please, as a parent, I say these things with your mental health in mind.</p>