question about MIT

Colleges & Universities Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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<p>MIT doesn’t seem to like my school very much. We have about 2 people go to Harvard every year, along with a lot of Yale and Princeton and Stanford acceptances, but nobody has got into MIT for a long, long time. I’m just wondering if it’s just a coincidence that they don’t take people from my school, or if they really do blacklist schools and refuse to take people. This sucks because I applied EA and was deferred, but i really really really really really really want to go to MIT =(</p>

<p>p.s. [this</a> girl](<a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Shin]this”>Death of Elizabeth Shin - Wikipedia) graduated from my school</p>

<p>p.p.s. [would</a> you mind chancing me?](<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/617236-deferred-ea-mit.html]would”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/617236-deferred-ea-mit.html)</p>

<p>p.p.p.s. jian li was also from my school (: lmao</p>

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<p>if they blacklisted your school, they probably would have rejected you instead of deferred you…</p>

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<p>Why would they blacklist your school?</p>

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<p>coincidences!</p>

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<p>It’s not a coincidence, per se – it’s the random distribution of acceptances at schools around the country given the relatively low chance of getting into any given school.</p>

<p>I would be willing to bet good money that it has nothing to do with your school.</p>

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<p>This. A deferral means that they think your app is competitive. If they were sure at this point that you weren’t going to be one of the people accepted, they would have rejected you outright.</p>

<p>I’m pretty sure they don’t blacklist schools, and they are not going to blacklist you because Liz Shin went to your high school.</p>