Sloan (MIT) Class of 2016 Calling All Waitlisted Applicants

Just submitted my update along with a couple new recommendations. Hoping for the best!

Did you guys receive any type of response from AdCom after you sent your updates? Cheers.

Yup. The day after I sent my update, I received an email that said: Thank you for these wonderful updates. I have added them to your file.

Similarly, my recommender received a response: Thank you for writing this additional letter of recommendation. I have added it to XXX's file.

However, I did not get an email when my recommender submitted her letter. I only saw the email because she forwarded it to me.

Same for me.

I submitted a letter and two letters of recommendation as well to the waitlist email address.

I got the same.

During the chat, the admissions officer stated updates should be in by mid Jan. However, if you read the transcript posted after the chat, the transcript says by the end of February. So I guess that advice was corrected when Sloan posted the transcript.

I think Sloan kind of learned it's lesson from Round 1 when the Admissions Committee was not able to extend all of its interview invitations by the November 8 deadline that Sloan posted on its blog and about which it notified candidates. So I'm guessing that Sloan is giving itself a bit more breathing room in Round 2.

Sent an update towards the end of last week and didn't receive any confirmation like the rest of you. Did anybody else have the same thing happen?

I would just give them a call to confirm. I was in the same boat..didn't receive any confirmation...

!	Join us for a chat with several current students who have been admitted from WL last year. When: Tue Feb 4th at 9 AM Where: GMAT Club Chat

The recording of the Getting off a Waitlist Webinar is now available on Youtube:

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61Lo8LAfOIQ[/youtube]

Anyone have insight on what the chances of getting off the waitlist are?

Sloan's my top choice. I'm striving to get off the waitlist, but trying to keep things realistic.

We haven't seen the yield yet for R1 or R2, so there's no way for us to know. However, my gut feeling is that this year will be tough. It seems like applications have risen this year.

I don't have any numbers to back this up...just my gut feeling.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but my understanding was that all R1 WL applicants will be reconsidered along with R2 pool. This means that your chances of getting in from WL are roughly the same as if you applied in R2.

I think that is correct. I was just looking into the future if your decision ends up being "waitlisted some more."

Here is my take. ...I think there are probably around 150-200 waitlisted candidates from Round One. 50-75 of those were interviewed and then waitlisted (me!) and the rest received a waitlist invitation but didn't interview. Perhaps 30-50 of the latter will interview for Round Two consideration. Judging from Sloan's avg. class size (375), its avg. yield (70%), likely first round offers to get half its class (250), and past "Waitlist chat transcripts," I think they will make 25 offers on April 1st to waitlisted candidates from Round One. Past that, perhaps they make ten or so additional offers in May/June and a few in July. Again, this is simply based on my powers of guesstimation. Regardless, good luck to all! Sloan seems like it's worth the wait.

I just realized that I completely missed the boat on the "Optional Information" section of the application and I didn't submit anything for it in my original application. Do anyone else skip this? I'm thinking maybe I should do something and send in a link as an update.