Anonymous
03/01/2026 23:12
Subject: Re:MIT accidentally sent out welcome emails to some Deferred kids
Anonymous wrote:Great tech they have there.
Yeah this is horrible and embarrassing. Poor kids.
Anonymous
03/01/2026 21:36
Subject: MIT accidentally sent out welcome emails to some Deferred kids
Anonymous wrote:It was sent by the actual MIT admissions office, but in error. They have not clarified whether the error was that the email went out too soon to actual future admits or whether it went out to an arbitrary subset of applicants and is meaningless.
The logical conclusion is that it was the former since a acceptance email was connected with a particular address list.
Anonymous
03/01/2026 19:24
Subject: MIT accidentally sent out welcome emails to some Deferred kids
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:https://www.reddit.com/r/MITAdmissions/comments/1rdrv4i/is_this_for_real_admitted_to_mit_notification_to/
My son is depressed. We didn’t receive any email. It’s possible they sent out email to ppl still in the running…
Did you all even click through to read?
It was an email to parents talking about next steps. It’s wasn’t acceptances sent to students.
And doesn’t MIT have a portal anyway?
It started with "congrats on your child's acceptance to MIT" and it was sent to a small set of parents.
Anonymous
03/01/2026 19:23
Subject: MIT accidentally sent out welcome emails to some Deferred kids
Anonymous wrote:https://www.reddit.com/r/MITAdmissions/comments/1rdrv4i/is_this_for_real_admitted_to_mit_notification_to/
My son is depressed. We didn’t receive any email. It’s possible they sent out email to ppl still in the running…
Did you all even click through to read?
It was an email to parents talking about next steps. It’s wasn’t acceptances sent to students.
And doesn’t MIT have a portal anyway?
Anonymous
03/01/2026 18:31
Subject: MIT accidentally sent out welcome emails to some Deferred kids
It was sent by the actual MIT admissions office, but in error. They have not clarified whether the error was that the email went out too soon to actual future admits or whether it went out to an arbitrary subset of applicants and is meaningless.
Anonymous
03/01/2026 17:49
Subject: MIT accidentally sent out welcome emails to some Deferred kids
Anonymous wrote:
Not true. The admissions office said that the email was legit, but was a mistake.
Not quite sure what that means? It was a legit email with a typo but mistakenly what? The recipients were a mistake? The emails itself was a mistake? The timing was a mistake?
Legit in the sense that it was from MIT, not a fishing email. But it was mistakenly sent by MIT.
Anonymous
03/01/2026 17:43
Subject: MIT accidentally sent out welcome emails to some Deferred kids
Not true. The admissions office said that the email was legit, but was a mistake.
Not quite sure what that means? It was a legit email with a typo but mistakenly what? The recipients were a mistake? The emails itself was a mistake? The timing was a mistake?