<p>Certainly, MIT must be finished deciding who got in EA by 9:00 p.m. tomorrow. They must have all the decisions entered in before that time. Since they probably finish entering in the decisions at least a minute or maybe an hour before then, why don't they release them earlier? Are they just trying to build anticipation? Is this a game to them?!!</p>
<p>Ye be ■■■■■■■■?</p>
<p>Just proposing an interesting MIT-related topic for discussion :)</p>
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Because they need to make sure that nothing is wrong.</p>
<p>besides. no matter when they released them, you’d still be on here asking this same question.</p>
<p>Aw should’ve told him yes, they’re just playing games.</p>
<p>Quote:Because they need to make sure that nothing is wrong.</p>
<p>The same argument: surely they aren’t checking to make sure everything is correct right up until 9:00 p.m!</p>
<p>Quote: besides. no matter when they released them, you’d still be on here asking this same question. </p>
<p>Probably…it’s just a matter of when</p>
<p>maybe they chose perfect squares.
16 and 9 :/</p>
<p>hahahaha thats quite cute actually. haha. ha. maybe 
perfect squares rofl</p>
<p>Well, they do release Regular Decisions on Pi Day (March 14th).</p>
<p>I think it would be cooler if they released it at four on the 16th.
Then it would be a perfect square of a perfect square.</p>
<p>That’d be cute (and five hours earlier). :p</p>
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<p>No, just like early decisions, they release regular decisions when they are done. For the past two years, this has been pi day, but prior to that it hasn’t been. It is always sometime in March, but beyond that, you cannot really say. It has been known to move around.</p>
<p>This reminds me of the hangman’s paradox</p>
<p>[Unexpected</a> hanging paradox - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia](<a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unexpected_hanging_paradox]Unexpected”>Unexpected hanging paradox - Wikipedia)</p>
<p>That is awesome (minus the hanging). :D</p>
<p>That was actually partially what I was thinking about.
Another one is Zeno’s paradox that if we must always get halfway there before we get there, we will never get there. Therefore, we will never receive our decisions.</p>
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<p>It’s not a game, I assure you. Even today, we are still involved in making final adjustments to the EA pool. We do know by 9 PM - but then we stress test the decision system to make sure that it doesn’t crash under the weight of a few thousand applicants all checking simultaneously. Y’all can put quite a load on our servers </p>
<p>And stix2400 is correct - no matter what time we released them this question could always be asked, because we would always have to know before releasing them, and thus could be accused of holding them overlong. Unless we REALLY wanted to play a game, and DIDN’T know what your decision was when we posted them. In fact, we could even not know until you accessed them. </p>
<p>Come to think of it I like this approach. Your decision would be simultaneously accepted, deferred, and not admitted, and it wouldn’t settle on a final state until you, the applicant, opened it and viewed it. Call it Schrödinger’s Applicant. </p>
<p>Relax. Breathe. 9 PM will come soon enough! Best of luck to everyone!</p>
<p>I would love to be simultaneously admitted, deferred, and rejected. Decisions Uncertainty Principle?</p>
<p>@MITChris, I am wondering how MIT will process the EA deferred applications in regular round. I know they will be put into the pool with RD applications. Will the evaluations and summaries of the deferred applications during early round be taken away, like a brand new application, or are they still stuck along with the deferred applications?</p>
<p>@yr425 - </p>
<p>The evaluations and summaries from EA remain in RA. Some applicants will receive a second read but most will not. This isn’t a problem though - our EA applicants read very strongly, and if you’re deferred to RA, it means you’re competitive for RA. </p>
<p>There is, in other words, no strategic disadvantage to being deferred. Hope this helps!</p>