Some early stats on the admission process, while we wait:
103 Days for WTP to review hundreds of applications
5 Days for admits to respond and accept or decline a spot
(I hope they aren’t interested in other programs that don’t share this 5 day window.)
(Massachusetts schools are on break for all of these 5 days. I hope there are not any who are off the grid.)
10 Days for admits to raise and send the $3,500 fee
(I hope they knew they knew they’d only have this long to raise the $3.500 if they chose to not apply for financial aid.)
A shorter time between the application deadline and the acceptance offers would stress the WTP staff, especially if it is performed by one or very few full time staff, with very little assistance from a committee of other MIT staff and students or WTP alumnae.
A later application deadline would help WTP reach more women with an emerging interest but without an established commitment to engineering.
An earlier admission notification date would help young women interested in engineering not feel pressured to accept other summer opportunities with earlier admission acceptance deadlines and give young women not offered a spot at WTP time to apply for other summer opportunities that would allow them to explore engineering fields.
College regular decision admission applications take almost as long to be reviewed, but students have a month to review those options. Freshman applicants don’t have to pass on some offers while waiting for others.
I hope WTP is aware that among summer programs their application deadline is one of the earliest, their notification date is one of the latest, and these do have very real impacts on the young women they are trying to serve, both those they can and those they cannot make offers to.
@theorist that’s all very true! I just got accepted to my backup program, and I’m so thankful that the windows don’t cause any problems. I probably would have just ended up accepting if they wanted a response sooner than the 22nd. This wait really is ridiculous, my other program had a later app deadline and an earlier acceptance date.
I’m thinking tonight I may just study a lot and hope I’m too tired to stay up fretting all night
I applied to my backup program and heard back within three days with an acceptance notification. I’m just glad that the deadline to commit for my backup is the 24.
“We hope you can find other ways this summer to pursue your interest in engineering and computer science, and that you will think about majoring in these fields when you apply to colleges next fall.”
– a quote from WTP’s rejection letter
If they really hoped the 300 or so young women they sent this to could find other ways to pursue their interest in engineering this summer, sending this earlier would have really helped.
I know of many other ways that are now closed. Can anyone recommend ones that are still open for this summer?
@abbiejlee .
I would not assume that you or anyone was rejected for low test scores. I know someone with a 2400 SAT and 5’s on AP Calc BC, AP Chem, and AP Bio who applied to WTP-ME and WTP-EECS and was rejected.
@theorist oh man. I guess they were overqualified then. I know WTP does that. The awful thing about the waiting list is that I don’t get a definitive answer until after the registration deadline for my backup program.
