<p>How late are we talking? A week? Two months?</p>
<p>Everybody should go check out [Ben[/url</a>] and [url=<a href=“http://www.mitadmissions.org/Matt.shtml]Matt[/url]'s”>Matt McGann ’00 | MIT Admissions]Matt](<a href=“http://www.mitadmissions.org/Ben.shtml]Ben[/url”>Ben Jones | MIT Admissions)'s</a> blogs from this time last year (and two years ago, too, if you’re interested). They give a very good overview of the timeline involved in decisions – for example, last year reading began [Nov</a> 8](<a href=“http://www.mitadmissions.org/topics/apply/the_selection_process_application_reading_committee_and_decisions/the_reading_commences.shtml]Nov”>http://www.mitadmissions.org/topics/apply/the_selection_process_application_reading_committee_and_decisions/the_reading_commences.shtml), but selection did not begin until [Dec</a> 2](<a href=“http://www.mitadmissions.org/topics/misc/miscellaneous/selection_begins.shtml]Dec”>http://www.mitadmissions.org/topics/misc/miscellaneous/selection_begins.shtml).</p>
<p>Obviously it’s a good thing if your whole application is at MIT by the deadline – after all, that’s why there’s such a thing as a deadline. But the next month will be spent reading applications, and the actual decision-making process won’t start until early December.</p>