<p>Comparatively, I am a pretty bad SAT taker, but I do really well on APs (all 5s). My SAT I and II scores are pretty much in the middle to low range of Yale, Princeton, MIT, etc... </p>
<p>Do colleges look at the great APs in a significantly favorable light? I'm not looking to place out in college, anyway. Will, say, a 700 math SAT II diminish my chance of getting into MIT even if I get a 5 on the AP calculus exam?</p>
<p>5s on APs look good.</p>
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It won't keep you out but it will put you in the very bottom range of admitted students.</p>
<p>Top school look beyond test scores. Good scores won't get you in and bad scores won't keep you out. There's alot more to an applicant then test scores. Something like 50% of SAT perfect scores are rejected from Harvard.</p>
<p>I think a 700 SATwould keep you out. APs just aren't looked at like SAT scores. The thing is, if you do well on SATIIs, you'll probably do better on the ACT than the SAT. Give it a try.</p>
<p>SATs are more important, I agree. But 700 really isn't that bad at all, I'm sure you could do well onother tests/raise that score. I don't think a 700 would keep you out.</p>
<p>A 700 math at MIT? Are you people crazy!!!!!!</p>
<p>If being crazy is at least being somewhat realistic, then crazy i be...</p>
<p>Not crazy, but I think that barring some pretty big awards in mathematics, a 700 in math would make someone a significant longshot at MIT.</p>
<p>So the 5 calculus I guess wouldn't help me. I know I can bring my math up to 750 range, but the remaining points I just can't stop making stupid errors. If I do well (around 800) SAT II math IIC, will a lowish SAT be a glaring problem, or will my other scores balance it out?</p>
<p>Yes, an 800 Math II would help to cover up a lower math 1 score. However, just getting your math 1 up to the 750 range would help immensley.</p>
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<p>I'm not exactly saying a 700 is MIT class, just that it wouldn't slit your throat like, say, a 620.</p>
<p>uhhh are you people stupid? MIT, the best tech school in the US, probably would not even consider someone who is in the 61st percentile for high school math.</p>
<p>They let in people like that all the time. However, such students usually have high AMC/AIME scores or URM status.</p>
<p>Oh my god, 700 is only 61st percentile? Ahhhhhhh!!!!!</p>
<p>I know someone who got a 650 and was 84th percentile. Math also has an unforgiving raw score to scaled score, if you miss one in most cases you're down to a 760-780.</p>
<p>So I'm not looking at any book, but I estimate that a 700 is missing about five or six questions across the whole test, which is one or two per section.</p>
<p>So you're telling me that a fairly average person only misses one or two questions per SAT math section. Wrong.</p>
<p>A 700 SAT math might not be ideal for MIT, but still apply. I know people who get 5s on AP Calc and in the high 600s on SAT math. Let's be a little more forgiving in this thread, nobody should think imperfection means doom.</p>
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uhhh are you people stupid? MIT, the best tech school in the US, probably would not even consider someone who is in the 61st percentile for high school math.
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<p>Be careful who you call stupid. </p>
<p>By 61% I take it you mean the SAT II? Because for SAT I that would be a very skewed stat.</p>
<p>I believe my old 740 was 98th precentile. My new 800 is 99th ;)</p>
<p>700 on math iic is easy to get. 50 questions. you need to get around 35 of them correct for a 700. Not MIT material any day</p>