<p>Due to the lack of load/performance/stress testing.</p>
<p>Since no other college/university uses this mechanism and MIT also have not forced everyone to use this in the past. This is the first time MIT is not going to send out any notification wrt admissions except the Tubes.</p>
<p>What is the probability that MIT decision goes down at 9 p.m. (ET) if?
1. 10% login at the same time i.e. ~500
2. 20% login at the same time i.e. ~1000
3. 30% login at the same time i.e. ~1500</p>
<p>I would say low considering the people working on it are from MIT. I bet they know their stuff.</p>
<p>I know I had dialup when I checked last year at noon, and it came up fine. Of course, the extra ten seconds caused by my insanely slow connection were agonizing, but I survived… barely. Yeah, so, if you have dialup, stake out at a library computer or internet cafe or something. And I’ve never heard of the server crashing before :)</p>
<p>It is precisely 12.345934 percent.</p>
<p>Besides, don’t worry! In just 3:30 hours you would have stopped caring about whether the server would crash ;)</p>
<p>i think that for other schools, maybe this would be a problem</p>
<p>but for mit, one of the top tech schools in the world, i highly doubt you will feel even any lag</p>
<p>my friend said that their servers crashed for like 10 minutes the year he had applied… 3 years ago i believe.</p>
<p>and with more apps than ever, i’m expecting the same.</p>
<p>Servers have crashed during the application before, but I’ve never seen problems with the decision-checking site. Although applicants were able to wait for the mail last year, I think most checked their decisions on the site.</p>
<p>I would say it’s about 50/50. Sure it is MIT, but then again, they seem to have a reputation for having servers that crash at the last moment. For example, I believe they have had servers go down for the app for the last three years. And when they were trying to announce the InvenTeams, they were down.</p>
<p>2:55 to go…</p>
<p>4*3.1416%
10char</p>
<p>I think decisions actually came out early last year, not to get anyone’s hopes up horribly or anything. I really doubt that the servers will crash.</p>
<p>Breaaaathe, people.</p>
<p>Haha, Brown’s servers apparently crash every time decisions are released.</p>
<p>Silly humanities-focused universities…</p>
<p>it’s weird cause CC is being really slow today…it’s a mystery</p>
<p>Well then,
It’s not like a Stanford Slaughter…
It’s not like a Yale Bulldog Bloodbath…
It’s an MIT Massacre!!!
jk jk jk</p>
<p>Probability now confirmed: 0%.</p>
<p>:P</p>
<p>I checked; mine works. I GOT IN!!!</p>