madmax

I heard that the funding and admissions decisions are not made at the same time at MIT. I dont know if that is completely true, but if thats the case, then those points may not necessarily be disadvantages

Yeah, I'm skeptical of that. Remember the RSVP date for open house? We are past that deadline now.

I dont think EECS sends rejections through email usually. I called them up and was told that everybody was being sent official notifications by tomorrow through post. So, the decisions have already been made, and if it was positive, there is no reason we wouldn't have gotten an email by now. Which leads me to believe that we probably are going to end up with a few more no-activity days and then see a postal letter in the mailbox one fine day. I'm sad. :evil:

lol... I called, they said next week. But I guess thats just a tongue in cheek reply.

I have almost given up hope. ok, maybe thats a lie 8)

Did anyone call/is planning to call MIT EECS today to get an update???

nope. but i noticed they have their RSVP deadline for the EECS visit day as this friday! http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/Gradadm/VisitDay/CSVD/index.html

yeah, I noticed. I just called up berkeley. They said my app is still under review.

Yes, and btw, I was thinking about Berkeley, and if we notice carefully, all the rejects were sent out by this time last year(around Feb 18th and 17th). Does this mean its a good thing to have not explicitly heard a rejection from Berkeley EECS? How many of you are waiting on that too?

Good luck for tomorrow everyone

No wait another day for MIT. Today is a holiday there.

Congratulations, lifegoeson!

I heard the EE admissions comitee meeting was on Friday the 9th this year. Hopefully, we'll hear something in a couple of days at least because of the Wed(21st) EE visit RSVP requirement they set themselves.

If you dont mind, can i ask you how you get this statistic?

I'm just wondering if its all over now.

whats going on? edit: i mean, did absolutely nothing happen in the past 15 hrs or so?

This theory just modifies the assertion that we should expect to receive acceptance notifications only during working day/office hours. I agree though, that with passing time, our chances continue to go down exponentially. Btw, I gathered more evidence in support of this based on last years trend. There were a few acceptances that were sent out on saturday as well if u notice carefully. Here's another reinforcement of one of e^jw's earlier insights. From what it seems, it looks like most people in here do seriously fancy their chances - as in, they genuinely believed they were more likely than not be accepted. Allowing for overconfidence corrections, lets cut down the probability estimate for any one of us here to get in to 0.5. Assuming there are even 5 of us like that here, the chance that not one of us here gets in is 1 in 32, and 1 in 1024 if we assume there are 10 of us (for an upper bound, its reasonable to assume that our "getting in" events are independent, cuz in the real case, if one of us gets rejected, the odds for the rest of us should logically increase) okay, good luck now.

ok, the theory needs a revision My hunch is that the acceptance notification email is generated directly by the person who makes the decision. It doesnt seem likely that the system is of the kind where they send a list of accepted students to the graduate office and the office sends out the emails on one day all of a sudden. The kind of deadline they operate against could be some kind of a soft one where the professors are required to select a specific number roughly by this date, etc. This means, we probably might even get the acceptance at 12 midnite on a saturday because professors might work whenever they want, probably even from the comfort of their homes. Stay alive. Lets wait through the weekend. They might be in the process of making their minds to choose from their final options or something. Who knows, you might get an email later tonite

Wait.... how do you know this?

dear e^jw, the camp is desperately in need of one of ur confidence boosting analyses

Its almost like we are living together in a concentration camp staring against impending doom..... but with that little glimmer of hope for survival (which hopefully at least a lucky few among us will get) :oops: :!: :roll:

Also, did anyone try calling them since morning?

Its 3:10PM in boston and no word here either. I think its time for us to unite all our psychic powers and make something happen :evil:

its now down to 4 hrs 40 mins. No signs of anything. Updates, anyone?

yeah, that is if we dont get in. If we do get in, I think the torment should most likely end today or at least in the very near future. damn, I need to go do something productive. we are all soooo nervous, arent we?