<p>I’m pretty sure MIT loses the largest share of its cross-admits to HYPS. I know we lose a large share to Harvard and Stanford, especially.</p>
<p>However, in terms of cross-admits I think many of us get into Stanford and Caltech, but the number definitely decreases with HYP. Like what someone said, I think HYP looks for different things than MC.</p>
<p>But all aside, with a <10% admission rate (heck it was 12.4% for my class in 2007 and we thought it was low), you cannot deny the increasing element of chance on admissions. College admissions is not an evaluation of your academic or personal promise. Please keep that in mind. You do not need a HYPMSC education to be ultimately successful.</p>
<p>The acceptance posts will come in later (see the Early thread for example)… people who just got accepted are probably celebrating, calling people, talking to people, not posting their stats for everyone to see on CC.</p>
<p>I would agree with you on that point. I think a good university will be able to help you open more doors, but that is still not to say that if you go to a state university you will have no doors at all. After all, many of us walk on paths that have been laid out for us, but the truly great venture forth and forge their own paths.</p>
<p>I am particularly writing to those people that have 2400s or Intel or USAMO or amultitudeofotherawardslikethis yet didn’t get into MIT and now is starting to doubt their own academic promise because of the rejection. There’s more to the MIT decision than academics.</p>
<p>Yeah… I agree with oasis. I got in and I can’t quite believe it, since I’m not extraordinarily talented in the mathematical or natural sciences (I’m actually most comfortable in the humanities, in fact, though linguistics is my strongest interest) and I have no major awards of any kind to show. And, to tell you the truth, I’m halfway resigned about not going to MIT because the financial aid will probably be really bad.</p>
<p>and if you look at the colleges from which Nobel winners graduated, so so many come from state universities and small liberal arts colleges.</p>
<p>I did not apply to MIT, but from what I can tell, the number one thing any guy can do to dramatically increase his chances at MIT is find a way to replace his y chromosone with an x. Looking at the results from my school, the most qualified males all got rejected in favor of less qualified (but admittedly still awesome) females. Women in engineering and hard sciences have a big advantage. Nothing nefarious about it; just supply and demand. Got to have a “balanced” class.</p>
<p>Rtgrove123, please stop trying to make ridiculous conclusions based on the pathetically, disgustingly low representation of any sort of anything you can get from a board like this. Actually. These threads that are up for two hours after decisions get released will NOT TELL YOU ANYTHING IN ANY WAY shape or form. I also know you already got into Dartmouth, so just chill out with all these signs, because based on the amount you have demonstrated on this board that you care about college decisions, you should know that it is extremely unpredictable, especially based on decisions from other schools. There is just no way to tell. </p>
<p>christiansoldier, shut up. You may think that your application should have gotten you into Yale early, but it didn’t. Relax. Your ridiculous and ignorant posts here actually make me think that some of your arrogant character came through on your application and made Yale defer you despite your other nice stats.</p>
<p>Go ahead and call me arrogant, and I am often ridiculous on purpose, but I think “ignorant” is a stretch. And I’d like you to quote me on the arrogant posts I’ve made on this MIT forum. I admit that I’m arrogant, but I’d like to see you come up with three instances of it within the last 24 hours.</p>
<p>Come on guys, chill. There’s no point in getting angry about internet posts by a guy you’ll probably never meet. </p>
<p>And as for the original post… yeah, I feel like my chances just dropped a lot. I have no doubt that many really strong applicants that were rejected are now wondering what in the world either went wrong or whether or not they’re actually qualified. It’s sad that so many great people will inevitably get rejected at schools like MIT. </p>
<p>Now considering that MIT has a reputation for having the most amount of looking-more-at-the-hard-facts, this isn’t exactly comforting…</p>
<p>of course!!! I got waitlisted too & I havent given up. To even be waitlisted means they would love to have you in their class, but just dont have enough room, so you clearly made an impression there and likely somewhere else as well</p>
<p>For me at least, the very worst part of getting rejected today was that it was TODAY. I had kind of accepted a while ago that MIT wasn’t really the place for me. And even though I was qualified to get in, I likely wouldn’t because I’m not that great of a fit. But I still hoped to get in because the next three weeks would be immensely less stressful. </p>
<p>Now I’m left with the taste of rejection in my mouth, and seemingly everything resting on April 1st. And looking at the results seems to raise my stress level to the infinitieth power. </p>
<p>But look at the bright side. We all at least had a chance. Think of the poor souls (our children) who will be applying in 25 or 30 years. Yikes</p>