<p><a href="http://decisions.mit.edu%5B/url%5D">http://decisions.mit.edu</a></p>
<p>Good luck, ladies and gentlemen, the end is nigh.</p>
<p>Thanks zrathustra!!</p>
<p>You guys should probably buy some extra servers and bandwidth for the decision date, we don’t want to accidentally DDoS the site…again :-P</p>
<p>Yeahh Thanks mate … !!!</p>
<p>Yeah I just got off the phone with our hosting company asking them to perform emergency upgrade surgery. We’ve already got a dedicated box, but I guess we need more!</p>
<p>My God really ?? … Heyy Chris what do you think will happen on the eve of RD decision release ??</p>
<p>How stable is the decisions site?</p>
<p>I’m pretty sure MIT’s website is designed properly ;)</p>
<p>Scalability’s a whole different beast, though. There are only a handful of sites that can handle thousands of requests at once.</p>
<p>Also, Caltech has one of the worst admissions websites ;-): [Caltech</a> Undergraduate Admissions](<a href=“http://www.admissions.caltech.edu/]Caltech”>http://www.admissions.caltech.edu/)</p>
<p>decisions.mit.edu is on an entirely different (and more secure) server hosted by MIT’s IT department. mitadmissions.org is hosted elsewhere. but it looks like we were on a woefully underpowered server. in a day or two they’re going to quadruple our RAM and increase other things too so that should help!</p>
<p>What does the committee do on the days before the decisions are released?</p>
<p>^Roll cardboard into tubes? :P</p>
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<p>We’re still in committee, Keeetz. It basically goes right up until decisions are released.</p>
<p>it’s so weird to think that you could be discussing my application right now, this very instant…my name, my life…talking about everything me…ahh so scary!!</p>
<p>Chris, what’s up with the 17s? If you guys will have the decisions ready by noon on Saturday, surely you’ll have them by Friday night as well. Why not just release them as soon as possible?</p>
<p>If this is all just because some former Random Hall residents on Admissions thought it’d be cool to use the number 17 twice… >=(</p>
<p>In my mind, I imagine the committee going over my app saying “Wow! This kid’s awesome!” (I’m not actually that pompous, but I can dream, can’t I?) 
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<p>@jrklcrq:
Surely you know that your logic leads to sort of a slippery slope. If they have them by Friday night, surely they’ll have them by Friday noon. If they have them by Friday noon, surely they’ll have it by Thursday night…etc.etc. The date is the date; we might as well live with it ;)</p>
<p>It’s so they can work out any technical kinks.</p>
<p>I’m so nervous I think I am nauseous…now time to start the mounds of homework I have been neglecting due to my constant checking of CC and MIT blogs…lol…Good luck to everyone!!!</p>
<p>@ninmage621:
Fair enough, but I think it’s a safe bet that they’ll have decisions ready by 12:00 noon on Saturday. Making us wait another 17 minutes just so they can have their double 17s seems gratuitous and gimmicky. I’m sure Admissions knows how much this means to some people, and I just don’t think it’s fair for them to toy with us like that.</p>
<p>But then again it’s entirely possible that I just don’t have enough of a sense of humor.</p>