Jan 30 2012

Missing Document Deadline Extended to Wednesday

Posted in: Miscellaneous

Based on a high volume of document submissions generated by my previous post, we are now extending the deadline for submission of missing documents to this Wednesday, February 1st, at 5 PM ET. This is a mighty good time to login to MyMIT and make sure everything is in!

To recap, you may send your missing documents in via: 

• Docufide 
• Fax at 617.687.9184

Fax is the most reliable way to get us a document. It is automagically digitzed and put into our system, and today we have already received over a thousand faxes and are working on processing them. In a small number of cases - almost entirely international students in India - there has been some difficulty sending faxes. While we're not exactly sure why this is happening, or where the breakdown is occurring, but if this glitch is affecting you, you may, in the short run, have your teacher or guidance counselor email a scanned PDF of the missing document to admissions [at] mit [dot] edu. If we need to follow up for... read the post »

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Jan 26 2012

Missing Documents Due Monday

Posted in: Miscellaneous

Hi y'all -

Quick update for our Regular Action applicants. As Matt posted last week, we have been working through our buckets and buckets of mail since the New Year. However, as of tonight, we have finished processing all mail, hand-checked all filing cabinets, scoured all of our faxes and emails, and loaded everything into our system.

If you are a prospective member of the Class of 2016, this would be a mighty good time to log into MyMIT and confirm your application tracking is complete. McGreggor also just emailed everyone who was missing components so you may have received a direct message from him.

If you have missing components - relax. This happens. We have not yet begun to review partial applications, and we never make admissions decisions unless we have sufficient information upon which to render that decision.

That said, you should move rapidly. All missing components must be received by 5 pm, Eastern Standard Time, on Monday, January 30, 2012..

Do not send your... read the post »

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Jan 18 2012

Why We Blacked Out The Blogs

Posted in: Miscellaneous, Academics & Research

If you are visiting MITAdmissions.org today you may have noticed something strange about our website. Specifically the fact that it isn't there. At least not at first.

Instead, what's there is this:

So what's is this all about?

As Schoolhouse Rock taught us, Congress proposes bills which may, with sufficient support, become law. There is one such bill working its way through both houses of the Congress right now. It is a bad bill, which if enacted would become bad law: bad law with bad consequences for the entire Internet as we have come to know and love it.

H.R. 3261, the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), along with Senate Bill 968, the PROTECT IP Act (PIPA) are corresponding versions of a bill intended, according to its authors, to curb copyright infringement. It is the latest battle in a war which began when the Internet began an age of selling wine without bottles.

This post, however, is not about whether one should ally with Lessig or Valenti in the interminable... read the post »

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Jan 3 2012

Happy New Year!

Posted in: Miscellaneous

Hello Internet! It's been a while. I last blogged on EA Decision Day, 12/17/2011. But I actually wrote that post on the 16th, because on the morning of the 17th, when it went live, I was on a plane to Denver with my dad and two brothers for a few days of skiing at Breckenridge.

It was kinda nice:

In fact you may have seen this movie starring us. 

After returning from Colorado I went back up to New Hampshire to spend the holidays with my family.

As I've posted before, I come from a small town in the woods, a place where people generally agree that almost anything can be improved if it is shot out of a cannon and/or set on fire.

This year, my uncle, who hosts our annual New Years Eve party, and is known by local fire rangers for his 512 cubic foot brush pile blaze:

decided he wanted a little something extra.

See, last year I had brought the potato cannon a few friends of mine and I had made... read the post »

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Dec 17 2011

MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online

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MIT Early Action admissions decisions for the Class of 2016 are now available at

You can log in using the same username and password that you use to log into your MyMIT account. There are no interim screens, so you should be sure you are ready to receive your decision online before logging in to decisions.mit.edu.

6,008 students applied for early admission to MIT this year. Because of the shifting admissions landscape, our applicant pool was slightly smaller but proportionally stronger, with more students well-matched to MIT. As a result, this was still an incredibly selective Early Action cycle, with us admitting almost 100 fewer students than we were able to last year, a difficult decision given how awesome so many of our applicants are.

Of those 6,008 early applicants, we admitted 680 students. They represent some of the best and brightest stars of our future. We are honored to welcome them to campus, where they will join the similarly accomplished,... read the post »

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