<p>Gak, It seems like every other local college are done with admissions, and they all seem to want me to have a decision made right now. But I still have another week or so before I get my rejection letter from MIT, so do you guys have any recommendations on how to deal with this situation. I will go there if MIT rejects me, but if on the off chance I get accepted, then I will go there. But I can't go any further until I accept admission to local colleges. So, what do I do, tell them I plan on attending, and then take it back, or not? I am so lost...</p>
<p>No college needs to know before May 1. End of story. You won't lose a spot. These colleges can still send you all the mail they want. Keep reading the mail, because the odds alone of getting into MIT are lousy.</p>
<p>Mid-March is relatively early for a decision. It is not April 1. Please stop whining.</p>
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Almost every reputable university in the United States is a member of NACAC, the National Association of College Admission Counseling. All members of NACAC agree, via a “Statement of Principles of Good Practice” or SPGP, to allow students to consider all offers of admission and financial aid without penalty, until May 1 of the senior year.
<p>Maybe I should clarify. These colleges aren't necessarily requiring me to accept until may 1, but the registration for dorms, and other stuff for the college, is now. And because I have to have been accepted (or at least make a sort of down payment) now, it defeats the purpose of registration on May 1.</p>
<p>Basically, you have to weigh the options. Do you want the option of a dorm at a current acceptance enough to throw that deposit away should be be accepted by MIT. We went through this 4 years ago with my son and are going through this now with our daughter. In both cases, son in the past and daughter now, my kids will have to have a lesser dorm at an earlier acceptance in order to wait and have the opportunity to accept a more selective school at a later date. For son, we made the right choice. Hopefully that will be the same for our daughter. Ultimately, this is YOUR choice. No one else can make it.</p>
<p>BTW I do agree with WendyMouse. You have known the acceptance dates of the schools to which you applied and complaining about MIT's date is unreasonable.</p>
<p>With that, I wish you luck with your decision.</p>
<p>Sorry about what the mood of my first post sounded like. I was typing it as I was rushing out of the door. I'm not really complaining about MIT's decision date, but rather, about the pressure my local colleges are putting on me.</p>
<p>Anyway, thank you for relieving some of it.</p>
<p>Dear Stuart Schmill, Dean of Undergraduate Admissions at MIT, </p>
<p>I'm being epically traumatized by this suspense caused by my waiting for my admissions decision. My tension is building so rapidly that my blood pressure is spiking and I will go into a shock and die if I don't find out soon, and my death will be on your hands. I know you've been at the selecting applicants for several weeks now; surely you must have gotten the chance to read my file. So please, for the sake of my sanity, release my decision. </p>
<p>Sincerely,
TBOL3 </p>
<p>P.S. If I don't go into shock and die, I will travel to Cambridge and march into the office demanding my admissions decision. If that doesn't work, I shall jump up and scream like a hyena then run around the admissions building 100 times and then organize a protest and attract media attention. Then there will be a public outcry about the torture MIT carries out on overworked high school seniors, and MIT will then be forced by the government to release my decision. If not, Jack Bauer will.</p>
<p>Seconded by 90% of MIT's RD pool and supported by the CC community</p>
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<p>JK ... but then again maybe you'll get the chance to be interviewed by the newspapers like Beef Supreme did over at the Stanford section. </p>
<p>To entertain others is my specialty. =-) <--- my nose isn't really that long...</p>
<p>Did any of you find it coincidental that a day after I posted this letter, MIT posted that they would release decisions on Pi day? Hey, that means that really do care about our well-being ... on the other hand, they're reading every single word we post on this forum... </p>
<p>So much for freedom of speech.</p>
<p>But of course, Jack Bauer rules ... 24/7!!! haha...</p>