<p>If there is a god, then one of them is a seven footer who can play the post and another is a killer point guard with a crossover dribble and three point range. you can have the other five spots for whatever special projects you want.</p>
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<p>Since people keep asking about this...no. The only special consideration that legacies get is that if they're rejected, the Dean of Admissions will read their file personally. This almost never results in the decision being overturned (I say "almost" because different admissions officers like subtly different things, and it stands to reason that every once in a blue moon there might be a legacy who sounds all the right notes for the dean but not for the others). It does, however, allow the Dean to say, when the parent or grandparent alum calls yelling, "I'm sorry sir/ma'am, but I read your son/daughter's application myself, and the answer is still no."</p>
<p>Agree with JHS. A friend of ours went to Penn Engineering with just such a young man. By the middle of soph year, he was kicking everyone in the pants in multivariable. He was an extraordinary young man who didn't have the educational advantages CCers take for granted. Someone in admissions saw his potential, unleashed him on campus, and he stepped right up to the plate.</p>
<p>Goes to show that we are ALL more than scores.</p>
<p>I bet one of those SAT 500's will become an astronaut or Nobel laureate or something.</p>
<p>or they could've been an urm</p>
<p>SAT's are not everything.</p>
<p>I didn't get a 500 in math but i did get a 720. as for my CR: i started out with a 470 and got it up to a 640.</p>
<p>The "inner-city kid" profile fits me quite well.</p>
<p>see:</p>
<p><a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/1061579847-post141.html%5B/url%5D">http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/1061579847-post141.html</a>
<a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/1061582630-post142.html%5B/url%5D">http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/1061582630-post142.html</a>
<a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/1061598768-post143.html%5B/url%5D">http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/1061598768-post143.html</a></p>
<p>I have never met anyone who has overcome more obstacles than i have, but i also have never met anyone who preforms better in school than i do (even when they DO have higher grades and test scores). </p>
<p>The fact that i was admitted, needless to say, proves that MIT has a holistic admissions process.</p>
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<p>So what's your definition of performing better?</p>
<p>Doing well in class. Nobody gets higher test scores than me (not to sound cocky, it's just a fact).</p>
<p>My GPA in my junior and senior year will be 4.0.</p>
<p>For some people test scores don't predict very well how you will do in a classroom environment. I know this is the case for me. If it were not, then all those people who DO have higher test scores should also get higher scores on classroom tests.</p>
<p>But maybe i shouldn't have said anything. An "oddball" admit's profile doesn't help other prospective admits who are not inherently "different" in some way.</p>
<p>What i was trying to accomplish was to simply show that "stats" are relativistic; they should always be considered in context, as MIT does. When you do this, it doesn't seem so strange that someone who got an SAT score in the 500s was admitted to MIT.</p>
<p>-i hope i clarified myself</p>
<p>It could be they had a low SAT I in Math from freshman or sophmore year and then perfect 800 in SAT II and 36 in the ACT math section. They could also have several college math courses with A's.</p>
<p>I got a 770 on the Math II, which, statistically, is no different than an 800.</p>
<p>MIT has been relying on test scores less these days.
However, they are looking for the people who truly show the most passion for math & science- a true love for it, not those who simply do it to get into college.
You are supposed to enjoy the journey you take to get into college, not just the destination.
This, I think, is the main difference between the highly qualified applicants who get into MIT and those who don't.</p>