<p>anyone on CC get waitlisted from MIT?
i got an email from them a few days ago saying "we need just a little more time from you" to make a decision, apparently theyll tell me by late may (likely rejection). anyway, just wanted to start a thread for us fellow failures, lets talk! ^_^</p>
<p>if you have done anything since your original application (been elected to an office, won an award, started a new EC) send them some info about it- they may be gauging your interest, or on the fence about you, so if you have anything new to add that may push you over the edge to an admit!</p>
<p>^^Agree. Let them know you’re still interested!</p>
<p>Alright, so i sent MIT a letter saying im interested and told them about what ive been doing since my application. In the meantime, im enjoying my memorial day vacation. 
Best of luck to other waitlistees!</p>
<p>Failures! You’re nowhere close to being a failure! MIT thinks you’re qualified to come here, and they want you here - it’s just space keeping you out at the moment. No matter what happens - if, in the end, there isn’t room - know that you were very much considered a good applicant at MIT.</p>
<p>Absolutely, anyone who is double waitlisted (ie waitlisted originally and then when they go to the waitlist and release nearly everyone, being one of the very few still on the waitlist) is absolutely viewed as someone that MIT would like to accept. I had a candidate in this position last year (entering Sept 08), and it is nerve-wracking, but do understand that they actively think that you would do well at MIT. That is a long way from failure. Good luck, I wish you success whether you eventually get in or not.</p>
<p>Anybody heard anything new here? My son has moved on and his happy with his choice. However, I’m still interested (wait–you mean this isn’t all about me?!)! I believe he was “double-waitlisted” (not accepted mid-May, but not dropped off the wait-list either), so I’m curious about whether anybody has been officially pulled off the wait list or dropped since then. The mid-May e-mail from MIT said they’d be in touch again at the end of May…</p>
<p>they did say that in the email, but i think i misread the letter myself. it said “we’ll know much more by the end of may,” which probably meant either
- they were supposed to tell us by yesterday and they’re having trouble deciding
- they will know from the first round of waitlist acceptances how many actually decided to matriculate, so then now, by the end of may, they will know how many more to pick from the second round and will start the decision process (so well know our decisions in mid-june, perhaps).
im pretty attached to Yale as it is as well, but i’m still interested in MIT.</p>
<p>that makes sense, thanks CCP. I recall someone saying last year’s waitlist at MIT closed @ June 23. Well, Yale’s not a bad choice, congrats!!</p>
<p>if that’s the case, it seems we’ll find out at the latest, the first week of june, since they would have to give us a little time to decide. there were 2 rounds last year as well, and apparently they accepted around 10 kids from the second round (i forget out of how many, this year it’s like 50 kids in the second round). anyway, good luck to your son, and keep us posted!</p>
<p>I hope you get in CCPWNZ! MIT needs more people like you</p>
<p>For the record, I know somebody who got off the waitlist in early June (for the class of 2011) and is now at MIT. Also, he is one of the most successful, happy-at-MIT, well-adjusted to the workload, and well-liked people that I know here. Being on the waitlist isn’t any kind of failure, and the fact that you got in off the waitlist doesn’t make you any less qualified to be here or less likely to succeed than anyone else here. Good luck, everyone!</p>
<p>Yes, the reason that the end of May is not as fixed a date as say the earlier waitlist deadline is based on the way that the process works. By 1 May, people notify MIT whether they will accept an offer of admission. Based on that calculation of yield, then MIT knows how many people they can take off of the waitlist.</p>
<p>When people get accepted off of the waitlist, then they GIVE UP PLACES THAT THEY HAD PREVIOUSLY ACCEPTED. As a result, some folks who have already accepted at (say) Harvard may give up those places to go to MIT, and some folks who have already accepted at MIT may well give up their places to go to Harvard (or anywhere else). MIT knows very quickly who of those admitted from the waitlist will choose to come to MIT, but they do not know immediately which of the candidates who had previously accepted MIT’s offer will then elect not to attend. This takes longer to settle down, and hence there is no easily fixed date for the double waitlisted to hear.</p>
<p>Well i just called the admissions office and the admissions committee has so far made zero comment on anything about the extended waitlist. I asked if we would know more by mid june but the lady said she knew absolutely zero about what’s going to happen. All she said was that us fellow waitlistees will be notified as soon as there’s any news (thanks captain obvious). haha, maybe i should just take my name off the list.</p>
<p>I GOT A CALL HALF AN HOUR AGO, I WAS ACCEPTED!! OMG THERES NO WAY!!!
i was taking a nap and mym om who isnt very proficient at english got the call. good thing she understood “good news” and “The Massachusetts Institute of Technology” after the guy said MIT. haha yay! ^_^</p>
<p>Congrats, I’m impatient to see you next fall!!</p>
<p>My friend from my school also just received a phone call a couple hours ago about getting in off of the wait list. Not only was I the first in the history of my school to get into MIT this year, but MIT even ended up taking another person from my school haha. What makes it crazy is that my class has only about 125 kids or so.</p>
<p>Congrats! Do you think you’re going to come? :)</p>
<p>Congratulations! that must be really awesome. :D</p>
<p>Congratulations!!</p>