falibay wrote:
praz wrote:
i attended the chat session in
accepted.com a few days ago,
MIT said there are about 125 WL-ers of which they expect ~50 to drop off by mid May.
Any movement on WL will start from then... in '07 they admitted 25 from WL and in 08 they admitted none.
Just hope we all will get in
Good luck guys for the waitlist. My sense is that they will accept people from the waitlist. Many of the people they have admitted this year have been accepted at HBS and/or Stanford, I don't know if their goal was to be much more selective but if that's the case, they will be surprised with their yield... Just my deduction from the Gmatclub bloodbath this year.
I admit MIT was a little funky with their admissions this year, but not sure what that'll mean for the WL (MIT probably doesn't even know yet). I expect either it'll be really great or really horrible for the WL, depending on how good they are at predicting their new yield.
Another question for you all...I know they say this (almost every school with a WL says this), but do you all really buy the argument they say about filling spots by demographics by the people that drop out? That seems so silly to me. I can see if there is a dearth of African students or something, and they need to admit one or two of them to pump up their representation; but if one white finance guy decides to go somewhere else, do they really need to fill that spot with another white finance guy?! The class is so big, what's the difference of having one more of any other group?
Frankly I think it's a way of comforting the WLers and encouraging them to apply next year. It seems crazy that it'd be a one-for-one replacement.