<p>I'm a senior and I applied to MIT EA a month ago, and I also just got back my Nov SAT scores...........not happy :( . </p>
<p>I thought I would have earned at least a 750 in Math and 700 in writing since they were so easy, but for some extremely strange reason i got much less than I wanted.</p>
<p>So, did anyone here get in w/ a score from a 1700-2000?? I have the statistics page for last year.</p>
<p>I don’t know if I’m going to bother to retake the SAT a 3rd time, since the 1st and 2nd times I took it my scores were very similar even though i studied for the 2nd time I retook it.</p>
<p>I am taking the Math 2 subject test in December, so hopefully that might help if i do get deferred.</p>
<p>While SAT’s testify very little to one’s academic abilities, such SAT scores might be of some concern even IF you get in MIT. That’s because you will need a certain speed in your reading abilities, even in science courses at MIT (and especially in HASS), where you’ll be crushed with massive amounts of info in some courses, and have to be quick at analyzing the gist of the message and the main things to remember.</p>
<p>SAT mainly measures how quick you are, and minimal math abilities. Therefore, train your reading speed by reading hard stuff (New Yorker, Times etc…), and you should improve. You’ll be glad you did so, regardless of where you end up for college.</p>
<p>I agree w/ you whole-heartedly, but unfortunately MIT takes SAT scores into a lot of consideration regardless if it doesn’t really test the test taker’s overall intelligence and college preparation…the statistics from last year’s admitted students shows, and I have around have around a 2% chance of getting in with my scores, idk</p>
<p>My friendly remark: a school like MIT sounds like one of the last places to throw your application into the reject pile for lower scores without considering your full application. The percentages don’t tell the full story: how many applicants with your scores had other achievements and remarks in their applications making their case for them properly is the question. You would not be guaranteed anything even with higher scores, so in my humble opinion it is best to focus on what you do have rather than what you wish you had, and also to reflect on why your results might have turned out how they did. We are all none to presume to understand why!</p>
<p>If you want to worry about certain schools tossing your application without giving full consideration, you should worry about several of the other good schools you might be considering, which might be much less understanding and/or careful in their reading of your application – I’d treat an acceptance to MIT as a pleasant surprise.</p>
Do they really? What the statistics show me is that MIT applicants have very high SAT scores in the first place – they don’t show a great deal of MIT selecting for high SAT scores, particularly if you assume that many high-score applicants also have a lot of other great stuff going for them.</p>
<p>true, I think i overlooked the part of the statistics where they reject most of the ppl w/ rly high SAT scores…they rejected like 22 valedictorians last year and a bunch of ppl w/ 2400s</p>
While that is no doubt the case, keep in mind that they rejected MANY MORE people with lower credentials…it is not that MIT specifically wants to reject people with 2400s or valedictorians, just that they obviously felt those people were not as good a match for MIT as other applicants with lower scores.</p>