<p>Well, I've been waitlisted to MIT. I didn't even know they had a waitlist! Anyway, how many others here also got waitlisted? And are there any stats on how many people from the waitlist actually are offered admission?</p>
<p>wrathofgod got waitlisted.</p>
<p>dseisenberg, almost none</p>
<p>I got waitlisted</p>
<p>yea quizquick beat me to it. I wonder how they choose between whether to waitlist or reject a candidate. Anyway, based on previous data, we have a slim to none chance of getting in.</p>
<p>Also waitlisted.</p>
<p>waitlist is a euphemism for rejected</p>
<p>waitlisted as well :(</p>
<p>Due to yield for the past several years (% students accepting an admission offer), MIT has not offered admission to anyone on the waitlist (except 1 person two or three years ago). This does not predict anything about the Class of '10 waitlist: in years before the previous three, several dozens were taken each year from the waitlist. (I got these figures from earlier study of the older Common Data Sets, which no longer seem to be available on MIT's website.)</p>
<p>Waitlisted...</p>
<p>for last year:
Number of qualified applicants placed on waiting list 604
Number accepting a place on the waiting list 524
Number of wait-listed students admitted 1 </p>
<p>for the year before:
Number of qualified applicants placed on waiting list 491
Number accepting a place on the waiting list 427
Number of wait-listed students admitted 0 </p>
<p>Oh well, I don't think I'll accept a place for the waitlist, so good luck to all of you!</p>
<p>i got waitlisted! stanford 2010</p>
<p>Thzxcyl, where did you get those stats? I know two kids who got waitlisted then accepted two years ago.</p>
<p>MIT Institutional Research Office of the Provost
Common Data Set 2004-2005 </p>
<p><a href="http://web.mit.edu/ir/cds/2005/c.html%5B/url%5D">http://web.mit.edu/ir/cds/2005/c.html</a>
<a href="http://web.mit.edu/ir/cds/2004/c.html%5B/url%5D">http://web.mit.edu/ir/cds/2004/c.html</a></p>
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<p>This is true...and it makes me feel a bit better...but wouldn't you say the past few years show a trend? More and more people are applying, and yield is increasing, is it not? </p>
<p>But it's a nice, softly padded way of being rejected. It was a pleasant surprise, as far as pleasantness goes, to open up the little envelope and not quite get rejected outright.</p>
<p>haha. getting rejected from MIT should be good for you. they dont have any hot girls.</p>
<p>I got waitlisted as well...now it's time to turn the hope to that other school in Cambridge</p>
<p>I got waitlisted. Maybe it's a test of my endurance to see how far I will go to get accepted, but more likely it is a lost cause. I feel I've been sold out after all I went through over these past 4 years, including having nearly lost my life on one occasion. I'm angry, but I don't know who to be angry at.</p>
<p>Unless hell freezes over and I get in off the waitlist, I doubt MIT will see my business again anytime in the next 4 years, and it really is their loss. I've hopefully got another 70 years left in me, and if we never cross paths again, so be it.</p>
<p>Their loss? Come on. That would be presuming too much, for anyone. Give the accepted their due, they deserve it. That said, I'm sure we of the waitlisted will all do well elsewhere.</p>
<p>(Although, I'd still much rather take MIT...if not in May, then for graduate school, perhaps...)</p>
<p>waitlisted here...though probably won't accept position...</p>
<p>Rejected flat out.</p>
<p>The process really is a black box; i thought i had essays and a point of view (for most of my life even) and drive and enthusiasm that fit in nicely with the Institute's philosophy, plus the people I know that have gone to MIT, I could easily consider myself their peer, and for some of them, even their superior, in 100% of areas (academic, extracurricular, athletic, and humanitarian)...</p>
<p>It's all confusing, just really, really confusing- best not to spend too much time dwelling on it.</p>
<p>Just move on mate, crying about it like I did last night is nice- even cathartic- but it wont change the decision :P</p>
<p>PS Brian, knowing your story and your ambition and your experience: it's okay to feel as you do right now, okay to feel betrayed- i've been evnsioning myself walking the halls of MIT since before I hit puberty... but if you let it consume you, you're going to screw yourself over... wait a week, let all the frustration out (cry, break boards, run long distances, do whatever it takes) and then move on to being enthused about attending whatevre university is lucky enough to have you.</p>
<p>It's all we can do mate :)</p>
<p>PPS- brian, if you want to talk- Dragon45 at gmail dot com for my email and my AIM is Dragon<strong>Raj</strong>45 (without the **, im trying to confuse harvester bots :P )</p>