<p>I've compiled data on the past Regular Decision dates for MIT:</p>
<p>//warning = number of days between the post informing students of the date and the actual decision date;</p>
<p>2011 it was (3).(14)(15)(926) for [March][14th][Class of 15][9:26 PM EST]
Warning of 7 days
Decision</a> Date 2011 | MIT Admissions</p>
<p>**2010 **it was 3.14 at 2 PM EST (weekend)
Warning of 10 days
Regular</a> Action Decisions: Sunday 3/14 | MIT Admissions</p>
<p>2009 it was 3.14 at 2 PM EST (weekend)
Warning of 5 days
Regular</a> Action Decisions: Saturday 3/14 | MIT Admissions</p>
<p>2008 it was 3.15 at 12 PM (weekend)
Warning of 6 days
Online</a> Decisions To Be Released This Saturday | MIT Admissions</p>
<p>2007- I couldn't find anything earlier, possible they didn't release online before this? Don't know. Link me and I'll edit!</p>
<p>Despite all that, I don't think that has much real bearing on when this year's date will be. Consider this a way for me to vent my stress over the event; with a damn good googling.</p>
<p>I'm expecting the date this year to be Pi-Day at 9-ishPM EST, without much more reason than I feel that the admissions office wants to set some arbitrary date so they'll actually finish, and given that, it may as well be the nerdiest date around. </p>
<p>-Hopeful Mike</p>
<p>Well we have 8 days still bro.
The day for releasing the actual decision date is just a tease.</p>
<p>Man this is so stressful … Every time I hear/read something about this … I have real chills running down my spine !! … And the messed up part is there are no updates either … I m havin an awesome headache right now just thinkin about how I will put up to my decision (which is not looking good enough to fall into my favor ) … INSOMNIA is approaching …</p>
<p>2007: [Online</a> Decisions To Be Released This Saturday | MIT Admissions](<a href=“http://mitadmissions.org/blogs/entry/online_decisions_to_be_release]Online”>Online Decisions To Be Released This Saturday | MIT Admissions)</p>
<p>2007 was the first year RD decisions were available online.</p>
<p>So it seems one cannot edit a post after 20 minutes of the posting on CC. Anyways:</p>
<p>2007 it was3 3.17 at 12PM EST (weekend)
Warning of 5 days.
[Online</a> Decisions To Be Released This Saturday | MIT Admissions](<a href=“http://mitadmissions.org/blogs/entry/online_decisions_to_be_release]Online”>Online Decisions To Be Released This Saturday | MIT Admissions)</p>
<p>Thanks Mollie!</p>
<p>I heard (from a questionable source) that it will be 3/14 at 1:59 p.m. (3.14159).</p>
<p>Speculation time. They could release on 3/17 since it’s the weekend, and 2007 set a precedent with decisions on that day. Another potential decision date is 3/16 (in the evening), since we’re applying for the class of 2016.</p>
<p>(I can’t think of any clever way to meaningfully manipulate the digits after 3.14 to get a time in the evening…)</p>
<p>May be they’ll be having a coffee break some evening and suddenly one of them will say … “Lets release em” … And it’ll be up … you know just playing the probability factor !!</p>
<p>That sounds more like Caltech… Last year, they gave literally no warning before they released decisions, and this year, they only informed EA people about the decision date the day before if I recall correctly.</p>
<p>Ohh … well then I dun think we can conclude over a possible time and date but can just guess that it’ll be around pi day only !!</p>
<p>Well, you can add 2012 to the list (according to decisions.mit.edu):
Hi, and welcome to the MIT Online Decisions web site. Admissions decisions will be released on Wednesday, March 14 at 6:28 PM Eastern Time. We know you’re excited, and that waiting is tough - hang in there! It won’t be much longer.</p>
<p>In order to receive your decision online, you’ll need to meet all of the following criteria:</p>
<p>You applied for Regular Action or were deferred in Early Action (the system is unable to display decisions for those who applied in Early Action and received a “final” action in December - i.e. admitted or denied).
You have applied for freshman admission (not transfer or graduate).
Your intended entry year (as designated in your MyMIT account) is 2012.</p>
<p>Hopefully they aren’t doing it just for 2<em>pi. 2</em>pi has another name: tau.</p>
<p>[No</a>, really, pi is wrong: The Tau Manifesto by Michael Hartl | Tau Day, 2010](<a href=“http://tauday.com/]No”>http://tauday.com/)</p>
<p>Tau is a better circle constant. It is the circumference of a circle divided by its radius. The Tau Manifesto (that site) cites many reasons for why tau is better. The easiest reason is that a circle is DEFINED by the radius. Also, in radians, one tau is a full turn, so half tau is a half turn, quarter is a quarter, etc…</p>
<p>It’s a great read, I’d recommend it. </p>
<p>And for Math Honor Society we are making pi-day tee shirts to celebrate pi day. Instead, I’m making a half-tau day teeshirt.</p>
<p>Oh wow, IT IS TAU!!!
<a href=“http://mitadmissions.org/blogs/entry/i-have-smashing-news[/url]”>http://mitadmissions.org/blogs/entry/i-have-smashing-news</a></p>
<p>EDIT: they took the page down already. this happened for EA too. LOL what the heck?</p>
<p>I’m not worried. =]</p>
<p>Fixing something with comments!!</p>