<p>So this message confirms a general truth about admissions offices. They are staffed with lovely, wise, and generous people. Models of administrative efficiency and message consistency? Not so much. </p>
<p>That’s ok. This is really a message from the gods above, telling us: forget about this thing till March 30. Or better yet, March 31.</p>
<p>Of course, here I am milling around the CC threads. I’m one to talk:)</p>
<p>impetuous, your theory doesn’t make sense because they aren’t so careless, and there seems to be a relationship between region and which email you received…</p>
<p>Probably Brown is load-balancing to protect their servers from overload and resolve congestion problems for the applicants. The time slot you are allocated to might be random / alphabetical / date of birth / applicant number / whatever. Anyway, IMHO, I suspect that the time the results are published is meaningless to the result.</p>
<p>im from midwest, 6pm EDT. I think it’s because we have different timezones Eastern timezone is what we have here</p>
<p>You never know…</p>
<p>I’m from mid-atlantic - my email said 6 PM. I would agree that they are probably spreading it out over a few hours so their servers don’t crash.</p>
<p>Did anyone else’s e-mail say that Brown’s not mailing admission letters?</p>
<p>im from new york, it saud 5 pm edt</p>
<p>I live in the midwest, I can login, and my email said 7pm.
I have a friend who got a likely from Brown, who also had 7pm.
Now I’m wondering why they would make a student activity login if they were rejecting you?</p>
<p>My Theory:
7pms all went to committee</p>
<p>Mine says 7:00…hopefully that means accepted! 
I’m from Arizona.</p>
<p>The times definitely do not have anything to do with whether you are accepted or rejected. Every year the server crashes, and with 30,000+ applicants this year, they probably decided it made sense to release the letters in waves. What’s the easiest way to split up the group of applicants before all decisions have been made? By where they live.</p>
<p>ummm looks like they answered the question… the times don’t mean anything</p>
<p>[It’s</a> Waiting Time! Prospects & Providence](<a href=“http://blogs.brown.edu/admissions/2011/03/10/its-waiting-time/]It’s”>http://blogs.brown.edu/admissions/2011/03/10/its-waiting-time/)</p>
<p>6 pm for me. i’m in pa</p>
<p>So do the people who got 7PM * actually * have to wait until 7PM to log in? Will it not accept their usernames before that?</p>
<p>If so, HAHAHAAHAH. I got 5PM SUCKAS</p>
<p>okay, you got a likely letter didn’t you?</p>
<p>So what I gather is that all decisions will be released at 5, but they’re advising us to check at different times so that the site doesn’t crash?</p>
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<p>I’m not sure if that question was directed at me, but no I did not.</p>
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<p>Possibly. I wouldn’t rule out that certain people will not be allowed to log in until 6 or 7.</p>
<p>My email said 5 PM.</p>
<p>man oh well haha, hmmm…even though the times don’t mean anything, i wonder if the login does?</p>
<p>no you guys, really check the blog lol.
and it was…thought you did, I thought I read it through the likely letters post.</p>