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<p>By getting hung up on the issue and disputing what Admissions officers have said about 700s being fine scores, you seem to place more importance on small differences in upper scores than they merit.</p>
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<p>Yes, I know that is your position. I’m asking you to clarify your reasoning.</p>
<p>Piper, I’m not trying to make a big deal about this, but responding to your “scores don’t matter above ___” point, this is what I don’t get:</p>
<p>How is it that scores don’t matter after a certain point, but there isn’t a cutoff defined to be “that point?”</p>
<p>Do you consider the statement “if you get above a 93% in this class, you will receive an A” to be confusing?</p>
<p>@MStocksl
It’s not that “it doesn’t matter”. It does matter. It’s just that after 700, admission officers will not focus on your academic ability (because they know you’re qualified) and instead will see if you’re really the right Match.
The 700 just means, if you score above that, you’re pretty much guaranteed to be academically qualified, so it’s moot to focus too much on it.</p>
<p>And the 700 is not a cutoff score. Cutoff score means if you score below it, you’ll get rejected, which is not the case.</p>
<p>For MIT, if you do get below 700, the Admission officers will try to look for other indicators for your academic strength (APs, grades, etc). However, if you’re not significantly below it, it doesn’t matter much anyways.</p>
<p>Lol what a funny hijacking of my thread :D</p>
<p>I’m going to request an interview and “take my shot” like everyone else, with low expectations of course! I’m not going to try to impress the adcom, just going to be brutally honest about my intentions and background</p>
<p>For MIT, it doesn’t matter past 700s. But for other schools it will probably matter.</p>
<p>MStocksl - Yeah, I’m still not seeing the actual problem here. It is a cutoff in the sense of, “Admissions will say your score is fine and look at other things”. It’s not a cutoff in the sense of “get this, you’re good, get below this, your application is tossed out”. I’m not sure what’s confusing you.</p>
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<p>Huzzah! Best of luck :)</p>
<p>when you say once you’re above 700 it doesn’t matter, does that hold true for the writing score? I have heard many people say MIT “doesn’t care” about the writing score, but I’m not sure it’s true. I got a 2150 on my SAT, but my breakdown was 770 math, 730 reading, 650 writing. Is this score “fine” in your book?</p>
<p>MIT doesn’t consider the writing score to be adequately predictive to use in admissions decisions.</p>
<p>See Chris’ statement here: <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/massachusetts-institute-technology/973540-statement-writing-sat-ii.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/massachusetts-institute-technology/973540-statement-writing-sat-ii.html</a></p>
<p>Good for them. The writing section is DOO DOO. Maybe if they took out the essay it would be worth something</p>