Deferred
December 15th, 2005 @ 9:07 am UTC by evanWell, I promised I’d tell you, so I might as well start dealing with it myself.
What most people haven’t heard is that there was a fiasco in the MIT mail system that we didn’t find out about until yesterday.
Turns out that, while the tubes were mailed on Friday, the letters were sent to another agency that handles MIT’s bulk mail. Because of that, they weren’t sent out until Monday or Tuesday.
So basically, not having received anything by Tuesday or yesterday meant that deferral/rejection was very likely.
To compensate for this, MIT admissions decided to allow people to call for their decisions today.
I set my alarm for 7:00, and would have sworn it said 6:00 when it went off, so I went back to sleep and woke up at 8:10 or so.
Took a couple of tries to get through to a person instead of voicemail, but once I did, the guy told me that I was deferred.
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Same here, more or less. But praeceptrix is right, we hope.
Get your letter yet? I got mine. How could you stand calling though? That must’ve been a horrible conversation. What did you say after the guy told you?
(Crossposting what I said on Zoogies’s blog)
After reading all of the news on Ben’s blog, I had more or less resigned myself to deferral. I’m not sure why, but it was far less painful than I expected. And I really just wanted to know for sure.
So anyway, I called not really expecting good news, so the conversation wasn’t too bad. And after that, I asked what the policy was on supplemental materials, then I thanked him and hung up, because I knew other people would be on hold waiting.
and you know what, evan? it is so not the end of the world. I will see you here at MIT during CPW. Stay strong in school and show them come regular pool okay??