<p>Actually, it looks like you’re fine. Your math score falls right in the middle of the range listed here for enrolled engineering students at Stanford.</p>
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<p>Good luck to you!</p>
<p>Good advice from a highly revered moderate…</p>
<p>I am in my mid-50s. I spent three years on the Stanford campus, and my sister was an undergraduate there. I don’t know any Stanford admissions officers like a sibling (although my sibling knows some as acquaintances), but I do know admissions officers at peer institutions. And I have read Matt McGann’s famous blog post (he is an actual MIT Director of Admissions) about perfect SATs. (You should read it, too: [What’s</a> the big deal about 40^2? | MIT Admissions](<a href=“http://mitadmissions.org/blogs/entry/whats_the_big_deal_about_402]What’s”>What’s the big deal about 40^2? | MIT Admissions).)</p>
<p>Dune01 is right.</p>
<p>^, As obvious as it seems, Mr. Matt McGann never got a 1600 on his SAT. At his time when He was accepted at MIT, the admit rate was about 20%, and anyone with a 1450 would have a chance to be accepted. So if he could survive MIT, why bother to accept a person with a perfect score? What did that mean when the person received a perfect score?</p>
<p>He should realize by now that anyone with a score close to perfect could do very well at any schools – i.e., graduate with high GPA, and most likely with a good job after graduation, and sure there could be many exceptions to make this statement false.</p>
<p>ewho, the question in this thread isn’t whether SATs ought to matter more. There are a ton of threads about that. The question in this thread is whether admissions officers at Stanford are going to care if the OP improves his math SAT. And I suggest that actual Stanford admissions officers are a lot more likely to think like McGann – an actual, high-ranking, experienced admissions officer at a peer university, one where engineering is even more central than it is at Stanford, and an alumnus of that university – than they are to think like you. Whether you like it or not, the people reading applications and making decisions at most top universities are a lot like Matt McGann.</p>
<p>And, by the way, I am certain McGann would agree with you that most students with very high SAT scores will succeed wherever they go to college. But he would also tell you that’s true of the majority of the MIT applicant pool, so that alone isn’t a sufficient reason to accept anybody. They go deeper than that to make their decisions.</p>
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I am truly not saying otherwise, just I tried to give a reason why, in my understanding. When you are never there, like get a 1600 on SAT, you would never know what it is. I am not saying SAT is the only thing to judge students, but it is amazing to see how those who get the perfect scores, and it is more than just pure luck. After all, there are only 300-400 out of 1.5 mln each year who can achieve this.</p>
<p>BTW, the high school near by me, there are over 20 seniors who received a 2400 this year, most of them are in one sitting. Sure, MIT accepted one early who did not even close to those people.</p>
<p>I’m planning on retaking a 2260 (800 writing, 740 reading, 720 math). Is it worth it?</p>
<p>I’ve got a 36 ACT if that matters…</p>
<p>With a 36 ACT I would just submit that score.</p>
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Wow. I got a pretty similar score. I’ve decided to just take the Math 2 subject test and ace it. Best of luck!!
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