<p>Definitely a fair assumption due to admission decisions being revealed that week for many years running lol. Last year decisions were released Dec. 16th, this year I am thinking Dec. 17th (my birthday lol).</p>
<p>Decemeber 17th is my last day of school before winter break. An acceptance would be a great way to close off my first semester. :p</p>
<p>It is my last day of school before winter break too. Where do you go to school lol?</p>
<p>I’ll message you. We don’t go to the same school since I’m the only one applying to MIT from my school haha.</p>
<p>Me too, in fact I think I may be the first person to ever even apply to MIT from my school, or any ivy for that matter. We go by trimesters though.</p>
<p>^ How do you know?</p>
<p>But yeah, that’s a lot of schools’ last day of class :P</p>
<p>It is the type of school where everybody goes to a state school, community college, or no college at all. Also the guidance department likes to put where everyone applied to on a big white board. I have asked about it too. I go to a public school in rural Indiana.</p>
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<p>Or they hire more outside application readers. </p>
<p>There’s usually about a week or so between the end of selection and the release of decisions. The admissions officers use that time to double-check all of the decisions and prepare the system for decision release.</p>
<p>They should release acceptances on Christmas morning but rejections and deferrals on Box Day.</p>
<p>^One year, due to (IIRC) a mistake by either the mail room or the USPS, the EA tubes went out one day, and the deferral/rejection letters went out a day or two later. It was not a good situation. People were not happy.</p>
<p>Haha, fair enough.</p>
<p>I thought only people that worked in the MIT admissions department read applications; I was not aware of any “outside” readers. What exactly is meant by “outside” readers exactly? MIT faculty?</p>
<p>^ I am a bit curious about this as well. I hope said “outside readers” know what they are doing when it comes to reading applications!</p>
<p>There are application readers that the admissions office hires (and, of course, trains) each year. I believe some are faculty members. Some are definitely alums – a friend of mine is reading this year. I was going to read one year, but then Ben Jones moved to Ohio and I never followed up.</p>
<p>Still, the idea of admissions hiring people in no way affiliated with MIT to read our applications seems a little wrong to me, even with training.</p>
<p>No, AFAIK they’re all MIT-affiliated – faculty, students, alums.</p>
<p>That is relieving to know.</p>
<p>free-lance app reader. Now that’s an interesting job.</p>