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Also, I remember seeing a post in the results section which said the person called the grad office and was told the admissions committee is "still debating over a few applicants". Although I am not too optimistic, I don't think it is a trivial "still haven't viewed the files". hami9293: you never know what went into the decision (friend's reject). Numbers, someone said an email from MIT contained this information (40 applicants on the 'waitlist'). BTW, would it be safe to assume most such applicants would have taken to gradcafe in anxiety? That could give a sense of the numbers, though numbers may be irrelevant in a waitlist context, applicants who've applied to different areas may not be in direct competition, atleast for PhD.

@hami9293: Although I do think they are only pending applications, I think it is more than 'just the last applications' to be reviewed. And I am not being optimistic. I think most decisions were made late-February, early-March, when most admits/rejects were sent out, the borderline cases left out for further debate within the admissions committee. There has been no activity since early-March (at least on gradcafe, except maybe a couple of posts), which wouldn't be the case if they were merely reviewing the applications, and there still were clear admits/rejects in the pile. They also wouldn't have kept the applicants waiting if there were easy decisions to make. Well, this is just my understanding of the situation.

Assuming most admitted applicants at MIT would have conveyed their decisions by now, there should have been some activity, I haven't noticed any yet. Anyway, I hope they make the decisions by the end of this week.

I am on the waitlist at MIT. Btw, why do they not call it a waitlist, they just say 'decision pending'. 'Waitlisted' would be a decision, right? Just wanted to get that cleared.