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EARLY ACTION

MIT just announced the "early action" results. Kids who have asked for early consideration because they need to make financial plans and/or find alternative schools.

Of the people I interviewed, none were admitted outright. None were "not admitted". All were "deferred". This is a sort of limbo. They will go into the regular admit pool.

I am not a fan of this process.

It is done, I am told, because some kids have to make early financial plans and that all the other schools do it too. Not a good reason, this latter one. There has been talk about stopping it at MIT but nothing yet.

A lot of kids, perhaps half of the class, get picked in this way. They pull from half the applications that will eventually be made. Ten percent make it.

I will probably get asked about it by one or two of the kids. Maybe all of them. Wanting advice about what to do.

I don't have any. They can wait until Mid-March to find out their status with MIT or make a decision to go to another school.

I am told that there were far more No Admit kids than the past in early action. So "deferred" is more optimistic than it was in the past.

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