<p>I’m sure that if we polled enough current MIT students, we could find somebody who got a 1 in something, reported it to MIT, and still got in. Since MIT admits holistically, it’s tough to pinpoint single factors that will kill an application in absolutely all cases.</p>
<p>Still, that’s not to say that a 1 on an AP test is a good thing, or that we can guarantee it won’t be a factor. Everything depends on the rest of the application.</p>