<p>Now, I know this may have been asked before and I am wishing for a nice answer to make me feel slightly less worried. Now I am studying for the IGCSE and I finished 5 OLs now, and I am hoping I can get into MIT.</p>
<p>I read online that the A-Level can be an alternative to the SAT requirement, so is this true? Or, do I still need to take the SAT tests?</p>
<p>In my country, Egypt, all universities accept for IGCSE students: 8 OLs and 2 A-Levels OR 4 AS. Now, that's my country, I don't know about the USA and I am kinda worried that this would be lower than their requirement, but they don't mention anything about IGCSE.</p>
<p>I am planning to take 3 more OLs in Business, Accounting and IT, and 2 A-Levels in Math and Physics. If you are an IGCSE student at MIT, can you tell me what did you take and what were your grades?</p>
<p>Also if anyone has any idea, I'd really appreciate it! Thanks.</p>
<p>@mollie
How would choosing the TOEFL rather than the SAT I affect one’s chances? And if he/she has taken both, is it preferable to only send the SAT, TOEFL, or perhaps both?</p>
MIT doesn’t have a preference for either the SAT or the TOEFL. You should take the test on which you think you will perform best. The minimum required TOEFL score is 577 on the paper-based exam, 233 on the computer-based exam, and 90 on the internet-based exam.</p>
<p>If you take both tests and send both scores, MIT will pick the one that makes you look best.</p>
<p>I also did A levels and you still need to take the SAT or TOEFL plus the subject tests. You can get advanced credit for some subjects once you are at MIT and they do consider your predicted grades when looking at your application but your acceptance is not conditional on your A level grades (like it would be in the UK)</p>
<p>In the UK you generally need three A levels for uni so try to do that if your school allows, though I’m not avare of any specific number that MIT requires.</p>
<p>The admissions website says that if you send both the TOEFL and the SAT they will just look at the better one. I did this and I’m very happy I did because I think, as a non-native speaker, the TOEFL was a better measure of my English abilities than the SAT (note that I might only be saying this because I got a significantly better score on the TOEFL and I’m trying to get myself to beleive that I’m good at English)</p>
<p>@abdelm: I was waitlisted then accepted, I’m going to be a freshman this fall. I’m not sure how helpful this is to you but I’ll post it if you want: I did IGCSEs and got 6 A*s in Maths, Geography, Physics, Combined Science, History and IT and 2 As in First Language English and Second Language French.</p>
<p>At school I did A levels in Biology, Chemistry and Maths (with Stats) and had 3 As at AS level plus predicted all A*s, plus I took a 2-year French AS course and self-taught A level Marine Science.</p>
<p>Again, these are just stats and don’t worry yourself sick if yours aren’t like this (just for the record, I think the A* predictions were not very reasonable except for perhaps maths)
I definitely felt like other aspects of my MIT application were more important that my grades. I ticked the box with them, showing I could cope with the work, but so could many other people, much more than MIT had room to accept.</p>
<p>Bottom line is: chill. I didn’t beleive that when I was in your shoes and others told me, but, in hindsight, they were right.</p>
And, okay, so I guess I am gonna do that, thanks. Any idea on the rest of the topic questions?</p>