Is it really true that MIT is still note done sending acceptances?

[DJLamar]

There was an acceptance posted today for MIT. A while later someone posted this comment in the results:

I don't tend to believe rumors unless they are just too juicy to pass up :-), so after reading the last comment on this forum I decided to double check what's happening over at MIT admissions myself. I called the MIT EECS Admissions Office and talked to a very nice lady there who explained to me that the volume of apps this year is TREMENDOUS, over 2700 applications. I remember always hearing a figure around 1300 while I was at MSRP (MIT Summer Research Program), so it seems they got over 2x the apps this year. She told me that given this number of applicants, yes, some of them have already been accepted and notified, but others are still "in the review stage." This means to me that *not all decisions have been made yet*. She said that more decisions will be made by the end of this week and even next week. So we should check the website even next week, but if we still don't see anything there we may call up the EECS office and ask again what's happening at that time.

I wonder if this is really true? It would really be nice if it were... but at the same time I had found that calendar on a public MIT website that had an appointment for graduate admissions final decisions the first Thursday Friday of February or so.

[MrRoboto]

There was an acceptance posted today for MIT. A while later someone posted this comment in the results:

I don't tend to believe rumors unless they are just too juicy to pass up :-), so after reading the last comment on this forum I decided to double check what's happening over at MIT admissions myself. I called the MIT EECS Admissions Office and talked to a very nice lady there who explained to me that the volume of apps this year is TREMENDOUS, over 2700 applications. I remember always hearing a figure around 1300 while I was at MSRP (MIT Summer Research Program), so it seems they got over 2x the apps this year. She told me that given this number of applicants, yes, some of them have already been accepted and notified, but others are still "in the review stage." This means to me that *not all decisions have been made yet*. She said that more decisions will be made by the end of this week and even next week. So we should check the website even next week, but if we still don't see anything there we may call up the EECS office and ask again what's happening at that time.

I wonder if this is really true? It would really be nice if it were... but at the same time I had found that calendar on a public MIT website that had an appointment for graduate admissions final decisions the first Thursday Friday of February or so.

Let's hope, but it's probably not a great sign if you haven't heard yet. Just speculation on my part. Fingers crossed...

[pepepaco]

Does anyone know if the accepted were early submitters?

[zonko]

I think a lot of schools rank applicants and then meet to decide how many get in based on funding constraints. If some reject early, they might let more in. So it is possible that they had a final decision meeting but will still be accepting people in the future.

[MrRoboto]

Decisions are up on the website: https://apply.eecs.mit.edu/.

Reject for me. Bummer.

[DJLamar]

Same here -- rejection. Only one program left to hear from that I still care about, haha.

Edited February 18, 2010 by DJLamar