The Thrill of Vctory

Queue the soundtrack (students who are reading may not get this...)

My last post identified MIT as one of the handful of colleges that are blogging as part of their admissions process. Today's post by Jess K (an MIT freshman) on their blog illustrates a couple of other ways MIT is ahead of the game using modern Internet techniques.

For the first time this year MIT's 'early action' decisions were posted online. It's fun and interesting to read the reactions of the applicants that just got admitted -- how excited they were and how almost all of them doubted they'd be accepted (the comments start at the bottom of Jess' post). This is truly the 'thrill of victory', and what we all hope for at the end of the admissions process. It won't be long before all colleges are notifying their applicants online.

The other interesting aspect to the MIT blog is the way they're using it, and the 'freshman admissions portal', to build up the community of incoming freshmen. Jess' post reflects on how she found out about being admitted one year ago. She then asks those that were just admitted to share the stories of how they found out. As of this afternoon almost 40 had left comments. It's not hard to imagine how tightly knit this group will become by the time they arrive on campus next Fall.

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