<p>Is it true for minorities that if they score around that number they can be accepted to MIT even with okay grades and not too many EC's? If they take it a year or two years after high school then it still counts?</p>
<p>I don't think anyone will get into MIT with "okay grades", but I could be wrong. I think that for any of the top colleges you must be exceptional in at least some regard, and often in many. Although MIT does strongly push their Affirmative Action (or at least they did when I visited the campus), I sincerely doubt that they would admit unqualified applicants simply because of minority status.</p>
<p>According to the 2003-04 Common Data Set...
<a href="http://web.mit.edu/ir/cds/2004/cds2004.html%5B/url%5D">http://web.mit.edu/ir/cds/2004/cds2004.html</a></p>
<p>Percent of first-time, first-year (freshman) students with scores in each SAT range: </p>
<p>63% 700-800 SATI Verbal
32% 600-699
04% 500-599
01% 400-499</p>
<p>89% 700-800 SATI Math
11% 600-699</p>
<p>Average high school GPA of all degree-seeking, first-time, first-year (freshman) students who submitted GPA: 3.9 </p>
<p>Only 195 of the 1019 first-time, first-year (freshman) students might be considered urm (62 Black + 8 American Indian +125 Hispanic).</p>
<p>97% of the Freshman Class are in the top 10% of their hs graduating class.</p>
<p>It just doesn't look like there is a lot of room at MIT for any lower performing students regardless of urm status!</p>
<p>I have to agree with gsp. Two students with underrepresented backgrounds were admitted to MIT from my school last year, both of them were in the top 5% of their class and had very good SATs. One of them had done research at NASA.</p>
<p>See, people hear "affirmative action" and think it means lowering of standards to admit more minority students. What it really is is an effort to recruit more qualified minority students.</p>
<p>Ben has said this before (although I believe he may have been quoting Marilee Jones) so I'll say it for him: There is no easy way to get into MIT. There is only the hard way. So all other discussion aside, if this thread is referring to some magic trick you heard about (every once in awhile someone comes out with these theories that if you get any 2 of a certain set of 4 distinctions or if you have a certain GPA/SAT score combo you're automatically admitted), then the answer is no.</p>
<p>Can a minority student be accepted in the situation you describe? Sure, I guess so. But they wouldn't be admitted solely <em>because</em> of the situation you describe. They'd have to be qualified/matched just as well as anyone else.</p>
<p>Well, and more to the point, any student, regardless of ethnicity, could be accepted with a 1400 old SAT and non-amazing EC's -- it does happen. But being a person like that, again regardless of ethnicity, doesn't mean that you could be comfortable about your chances. (My boyfriend: 1400 SAT, white male from MA, cross country, freestyle skiing, track.)</p>
<p>I agree with others above that the "okay" grades would probably be the biggest hurdle. If someone's not motivated enough to get good grades in high school, I don't know how he or she could survive at MIT.</p>
<p>In answer to the title question: I am a minority, I got 1410 on the M+V, and I got in. So, yes. But when you take everything else into consideration, that yes isn't so clear now, is it? :P</p>
<p>I'm Latino/Hispanic with a 1500/1600, 2250/2400 and was deferred from EA. A lot more goes into admissions than SATs :-/</p>
<p>Many get deferred in EA because of the intense competiton.</p>
<p>My friend had these stats</p>
<p>-Good EC's (not earth-shattering)
-7/400
-3.7 UW
-1420 SAT </p>
<p>He got in...</p>
<p><1310 SAT, 590v, 720m, im asian, still got in</p>
<p>wow thats inspiring</p>
<p>Apparently, the average SAT is 1477 (717V + 760M), so one would expect a distribution around that number. Scores 100 points above or below 1477 should not be too surprising.</p>