<p>I know MIT defers a lot of EA people, but exactly how many people get deferred, rejected, or accepted? Could someone please post some statistics for this?</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>In past years, about 12-15% of applicants have been accepted EA, 15-18% have been rejected, and 70% have been deferred.</p>
<p>The numbers for this year should be up on the blogs within a few days.</p>
<p>Thanks molliebatmit! Wow...70% deferral...and here I thought I actually had a pretty good chance for RD. Meh. How do I send additional essays and where, btw?</p>
<p>You can send any additional materials via postal mail to the admissions office at the address on the admissions website. Just make sure your name and date of birth are on anything you send so it can be matched to your file.</p>
<p>EA applicants deferred to RD have historically been admitted at about the same rate they're admitted during EA -- it's still tough, but definitely not impossible, to get in.</p>
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<p>And you may in fact <em>have</em> a pretty good chance. There are an awful lot of undergrads running to exam halls or cramming for their finals this week at MIT who were deferred EA. The fact that you got deferred, rather than rejected, means that they read your application and considered you competitive for regular action.</p>
<p>I was deferred, and basically gave up hope of getting in. Around the middle of February I remembered that I should probably send MIT an update just to let them know I was still interested. It wasn't anything special; I just mentioned that I was still doing well in school and had done some not-too-important things with my ECs, and that I still loved MIT. And lo and behold, I got in. From what I hear, about the same number of people who are accepted EA are deferred and later accepted. Or something like that.</p>
<p>In addition, if you ARE rejected/waitlisted from MIT, it doesn't make you stupid or anything like that. My boyfriend was deferred and then waitlisted and, until late May thought he was going to go to his state school, until he got off the waitlist here. Now he's a sophomore with a 5.0 GPA, and is without a doubt one of the smartest people I know. Plus, everyone likes him and he's really involved in the community. Near-bad call on MIT's part? =]</p>
<p>So can I email my additional things to MIT admissions office? Or is that frowned upon?</p>
<p>I would send them via postal mail, if possible -- it's not that emailing is a problem, but the admissions office gets a lot of email every day, and it's substantially easier for an email to fall through the cracks than for a mailed package to do so.</p>
<p>Also the admissions office can't open things that are in attachments (at least they couldn't last year) so make sure if you e-mail that you copy and paste whatever you're sending into the body of the message. But snail mail will probably be more reliable, even if it'll take longer.</p>
<p>From this year's admissions thread:
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This year, we received about 5,000 applications for early action admission, a record number for us and a 27% increase over last year. We admitted 540 students for an admit rate of 11%, or fewer than one of every nine applicants.
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