<p>When will the MIT EA results be out ? Is there a specific date yet?</p>
<p>No specific date yet. They’ll likely announce the date sometime in early to mid December via a blog post. If it’s any guide, last year was 12/15 at 12:15 PM EST though that doesn’t mean that this year will definitely be 12/14.</p>
<p>If I’m right, december 15th was a thursday last year. That would mean this year it should come on like 12/12?</p>
<p>I don’t mean to rain on any parades, but there’s really no use trying to predict the date. The date hasn’t been released yet because the admissions office doesn’t know when they’ll be able to release decisions yet, and you’ll know as soon as humanly possible after they do.</p>
<p>MIT EA decisions are frequently released in the vicinity of December 15, but trying to identify a pattern in the release dates is futile. The release date is decided each year as the admissions officers progress through selection committee, and past performance is not a guarantee of future results.</p>
<p>They always target roughly the same time of year, but it varies. The noises that I am hearing from the admissions office suggest that there are even more early applications than normal this year. They will be done when they are done. The MIT admissions committee system takes as long as it takes, which is why MIT never announces dates much in advance. Trying to predict it in the early round is pointless. Even on the regular round, although MIT has managed to hit pi day several years in a row, they still do not announce the date, because they do not know until sometime in early march whether that will be possible.</p>
<p>Mikalye -Can you tell how many early applicants applied this year. Do you think if the applicant pool is larger, will they admit more early applicants than last year.</p>
<p>And two years ago, it was a Saturday, Dec. 17, at 12:17….</p>
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Nope. I am not an admissions officer. Merely someone who talks to the admissions office on a very regular basis.
I would be stunned if they did. I am also not sure that it would be fair. After all, nobody yet knows what the size of the regular pool might be. My guess is that an extra large early pool means that there will be more deferrals to the regular round.</p>
<p>I wonder if the acceptance rates will keep going down year after year, and the pools simply get larger. And if graphed, they will show an exponential one. With rates as a hyperbola (or maybe something like y=1/x), so the derivatives get larger/more positive, but never reach zero, and the pool size as a log graph (or maybe something like y=x^.25), with the derivative also getting less positive, but never zero. It would actually be quite interesting to graph these trends and see what would happen. I’m also not quite sure why I am posting this here…</p>
<p>@cpraf104: That’s pretty much it; there’s enough data already to see that it’s been happening</p>
<p>As for your graphical depictions, you kinda contradicted yourself - in a graph of y = 1/x, the derivative would be negative and approach 0</p>
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<p>Probably, although to be frank, we’d like to see the pool not get larger, but get more well-matched / competitive and smaller, if possible.</p>
<p>@ Texasian0 - the derivative would be negative, but it is getting less negative so more positive and also larger since less negative. But yes, it would approach zero. So the graph would look like the left half of a halfpipe, except a lot steeper and sudden.</p>