<p>MIT is my first choice but my SAT score is around 2150 and I barely think it will go above 2200.. So is 2100 enough for MIT at least to compete with others or should I obtain a higher score?</p>
<p>A 700+ (especially in math and reading) puts you in the competitive range. After 750, it's all the same.</p>
<p>If you've gotten at least a 700, don't worry about it. Spend more time on the more important parts of your application like your essays.</p>
<p>So will 690/750/710 be ok??</p>
<p>Think of your application as table; there's the SAT as one leg, your essays as another, your grades, and you extracurriculars/interview.</p>
<p>If one leg(in this case the SAT) is a little weak, the table won't collapse as it still has those other(3 or 4) legs to support it.
Hope that helps.</p>
<p>Average math SAT score is 760 at MIT.</p>
<p>Keep in mind, that means that half of MIT has scores at or below 760. I'd definitely try to get math up, but honestly, don't make it your #1 priority. If you have to choose between studying SATs and working on your essays, work on your essays.</p>
<p>Math is perfectly fine 750 probably means -2 on the section. Depending on the SAT -2 can range anywhere from 740-770, so you're perfectly fine.</p>
<p>I've heard that MIT treats all scores above 700 the same.</p>
<p>mathwiz: Ben has gone on record saying that all scores over 750 are treated the same. He has also said that all scores over 700 put you in the competitive range.</p>
<p>If I remember correctly, I heard this from mollie.</p>
<p>mathwiz: Mollie is a very smart, wonderfully helpful, and experienced (former! :) ) student and blogger, but if Ben Jones says something different, I would listen to him, since he is an Admissions Officer.</p>
<p>true true, but if i remember correctly, ben was on that forum and didn't say anything to the contrary.</p>
<p>Ben doesn't always respond to everything on CC, although he tries to peek in regularly. He does, however, accept full responsibility for what's posted on his blog.</p>
<p>First sources. Much more credible. CC is great, ben.mitblogs.com is better.</p>
<p>^^ True, and if you browse Ben's blog, you'll find answers for pretty much everything.</p>
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Haha, so would I!</p>
<p>But Ben has also posted elsewhere in this forum that "mollieb pwns benjones", so he's clearly contradicting himself. ;)</p>
<p>I think what Ben means when he says things like that is that MIT doesn't penalize you for having imperfect scores as long as they don't totally suck, and something [good but not perfect] is fine. The actual number value probably doesn't concretely exist.</p>
<p>Well they don't exactly take 800 sat scores and scale them down to 750 before looking at the apps, so an 800 is probably still a little better than a 750.. and if you have 800s on everything that is probably pretty impressive; but for almost all practical purposes they are the same</p>
<p>besides the SAT, your ranking is very important for MIT admission. At least 40% of the admitted students (I think for the Class of 2008) were #1 in their classes. Also, do you have any math or science related award or honor (those carry relatively high weight)?</p>
<p>Last year, 62% of admitted students were valedictorians.</p>
<p>That statistic sounds pretty glum. For the record, I should mention I'm only in the top 13% of my class, and I made it.</p>
<p>And only one of the 15 students I know from my kids' high school who were admitted to MIT last year or this year was a val, so it all works out.</p>