<p>It’s different every year.</p>
<p>You can find this information for yourself on the [common</a> data set](<a href=“MIT Institutional Research”>MIT Institutional Research) and on [Matt’s</a> blog](<a href=“http://www.mitadmissions.org/topics/apply/the_selection_process_application_reading_committee_and_decisions/waitlist_news.shtml]Matt’s”>http://www.mitadmissions.org/topics/apply/the_selection_process_application_reading_committee_and_decisions/waitlist_news.shtml), but here are the waitlist results for the past few years.
**Year Waitlistees Accepted spot Admitted**
2008 739 ? 35
2007 439 443 20
2006 389 319 40
Prior to 2006, no one had been accepted from the waitlist for several years.</p>