# Rate limiting at an educational institution

**URL:** <https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/rate-limiting-at-an-educational-institution/5910>\
**Category:** Issuance Policy\
**Created:** [December 6, 2015, 8:47am UTC](https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/rate-limiting-at-an-educational-institution/5910 "2015-12-06T08:47:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![schoen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/letsencrypt/user_avatar/community.letsencrypt.org/schoen/32/79_2.png) [@schoen](https://community.letsencrypt.org/u/schoen)\
**Post date:** [April 24, 2017, 6:17am UTC](https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/rate-limiting-at-an-educational-institution/5910/24 "2017-04-24T06:17:55Z")

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@kohenkatz, universities have fairly commonly gotten exemptions from the rate limits, but the request needs to be submitted by a responsible party at the university.

[https://letsencrypt.org/docs/rate-limits/#overrides](https://letsencrypt.org/docs/rate-limits/#overrides)

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