<p>I'm an EA applicant, and I provided a website containing videos of inventions and similar material.</p>
<p>I was wondering if we are guaranteed that the admissions officers will look at the website. I believe it's an important part of my application.</p>
<p>Out of curiosity, I looked at my server logs, and noticed that MIT did in fact look at my website once, but the circumstances were kind of odd: 3 different computers accessed my website within a period of 40 seconds, and that was it.</p>
<p>Is this a bad sign (did something go wrong)? Or am I worrying needlessly?</p>
<p>I am also an EA applicant, and double check what I say, but from what I have heard, multiple readers will go through your app and some might look at your extra supplements. From what I have heard/read, it is not guaranteed.</p>
It’s not guaranteed, but the readers do consider this material important, and they will make an effort to look through it if possible.</p>
<p>The readers are also not necessarily reading applications and looking at supplements while physically on campus, so any Boston-area IP in your logs could potentially be admissions readers, and not just those from MIT.</p>
<p>I heard somewhere that if you’re application makes it to the committee, then they will look at your website more thoroughly. And like mollie said, the readers will try and look at your site during the first reading.</p>
<p>I’ve never heard that the admissions officers look at sites during selection committee, though of course that doesn’t mean it’s never happened. </p>
<p>At MIT, there’s not a winnowing that goes on between reading and selection committee – all of the applications that pass an initial check (which is virtually all) are read and discussed in selection.</p>
<p>This might be silly, but maybe someone checked your website with the W3C validation service? I’m not exactly sure, but I think W3C is hosted at MIT, so perhaps that’s it.</p>
<p>@Giraffes… Correct, but W3 has a different Class A subnet. If the IP began with 18.<em>, it was directly from MIT’s Campus. The W3 validator would come from 128.</em> I believe.</p>
<p>It can’t have been a validation service – only the admission officers have the website, it’s not publicly accessible or on any index like Google’s.</p>
<p>If I grep the logs for 18.*, there are 4 unique IP addresses corresponding to 4 unique user agents (all running Mac OS, so probably not servers mirroring applicants’ websites), accessing various pages within a 53 second range, fetching a total of 5 unique pages between them. Besides that, there are no IP addresses besides my own.</p>
<p>My son also made a website just for MIT and a few weeks ago got a one day hit of 9 views, all from different operating systems (one even Linux!). No one else has this site address so they must have viewed it.</p>
<p>looks right, a lot of macs from the pdf information. Students seem to be handling a lot of forms as well. I wonder if they read the apps and view the links.
Software:
Microsoft Office<br>
Mac OS X 10.6.5 Quartz PDFContext<br>
Adobe PDF Library 9.9<br>
Adobe InDesign CS5.5 (7.5)<br>
Mac OS X 10.6.8 Quartz PDFContext<br>
Mac OS X 10.6.4 Quartz PDFContext<br>
Mac OS X 10.5.8 Quartz PDFContext<br>
Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac<br>
Mac OS X 10.7.2 Quartz PDFContext<br>
Adobe Photoshop
Adobe Photoshop CS5.1<br>
Mac OS X 10.4.11 Quartz PDFContext<br>
Microsoft Office 2000<br>
Writer<br>
OpenOffice 2.4<br>
Mac OS X 10.7.4 Quartz PDFContext</p>
<p>Just noticed that son’s website suddenly got 8 hits on 12/12/12. No one else has this site address. Is this a good sign or am I jumping to conclusions?</p>
<p>Bummer. I made a site and have only gotten one hit, more than 3 weeks ago. Not sure if having many hits is a good sign, but I’m not too optimistic.</p>
<h2>@cheerioswithmilk: Did you check for other Cambridge area IPs besides 18.0.0.0/8?</h2>
<p>I had several hits during reading, then a couple more during selection committee. Not sure if that’s a good sign. I guess I’ll find out tomorrow.</p>
<p>I spent a total of ~20 hours designing the website, but unfortunately, the admissions officers looked at it for a total of only ~2 minutes.</p>
<p>I made my website through google sites, and the tracking simply says that I got one hit from Newton, Massachusetts for a minute 45 seconds a few weeks ago (I’m not much of a techie). All other hits were from me while editing the site.</p>