Sloan 2013 (MIT) - Calling All Applicants

I fall for that every single time, from every one of my schools. You'd think I would learn by now haha.

Haha, yeah it's the worst. Actually no... THE WORST is the ambiguous "Regarding your application" subject line.

...open it up and it just says "We have received your application and are currently processing..."

<hangs head>
<sighs>

Mine says the same also and it feels good not to be the only one waiting.

I have submitted an application video (open to public on Youtube) for my MIT application. Let's see if my hours/days/nights of work will pay off.

Good luck to you all

Have they seen your video yet???? You can find out through analytics.

I have checked the analytics but the video is made public, it is difficult to track it down. (I should have unlisted it).

Also, there are no views listed in the states of Massachusetts... That's not a very good sign.

I am in the same boat. My video is unlisted and nobody from US has watched it yet. But at least this time I'll know if somebody read my app.

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Well, for those who posted videos on Youtube - the analytics engine logs a view only when the entire video is viewed (till the end). In case someone viewed your video till the last second, and stopped, Youtube won't record that as a statistic. So it could be that your video was viewed till the very last second, but closed before the view could be logged.

I believe that the AdCom would look at the supplemental essays of all applicants, even if they dont really score it. It would be unfair to view the supplemental essays of only a few candidates - given MIT Sloan's focus on innovation and creativity, the supplemental essay should be the first component of an application that they view, given that its a blank canvas on which a candidate's creativity can be visibly captured.

For the record, my supplemental essay was viewed four times in Jan (between Jan 25 and Jan 29, to be precise), all from the US. I know because the website I uploaded my PDF to is relatively obscure, but has cool analytics (tells me which country the view came from, at what time, and for how long the view lasted). Since it was a private link I generated just for Sloan, I figure nobody else could have stumbled upon it.

I guess the interview invites will begin to go out within a couple of weeks, maybe even this week. With Sloan, you can never tell. But then, that's the beauty of a surprise isn't it?

Cheers,
MBWanderlust

Same for me. I am sure that MIT looks at all sup. essays. The video that I uploaded was also viewed a few times around the timeline that MBAWanderlust mentioned (last viewed on Jan 27th). One of the reasons that my nerves start acting up everytime I get an email from MIT for a convention

Just to give a frame of reference, I applied in R1 and my video was viewed twice in MA, once on November 27 and once on January 10th. I received the interview invite on December 4th and had my interview on January 10th.

Guys, the message on the mit website doesn't change until you are admitted or dinged.

Regards,

Thanks, that helps. I just have to monitor when my video will be viewed in MA now.

Just checked last year's thread. The big wave of invites started going out on Feb 27th then. However, R2 deadline was Jan 10th. Given the fact that the deadline was effectively one week earlier this time around (not counting the time between the years), I would expect invites to go out by the end of this week.

Then again, the notification date was also Apr 2nd last year, so maybe they just decided to give themselves a little more screening time and invites will start going out Feb 27th again. Or maybe they just ding everyone and replace half the class with robots. It's really all guesswork at this time.

Hahaha... Or........ maybe you should stop worrying so much until ppl start posting about their interview invitations...
I know, its so easy to say, but difficult to do!! Right?

anyway, Good luck to everyone on this process!!

my video is not viewed after my upload time... that's worse.

I have a solution : We should organize a party with all the people waiting for their video to be seen

Well, I know that they've at least looked at my LinkedIn page.

Just as an FYI--my video never recorded a hit, but my interviewer had definitely seen it.