<p>Hi everyone,
So I got my December SAT scores: 700M, 730CR, 720W</p>
<p>My question is: I've heard that there is a special "pile" where all the 800 M SAT scorers go for the adcom.</p>
<p>So, is this real/does this separation in the apps actually happen? Do you think that a 700M score is acceptable for MIT? </p>
<p>Has anyone ever gotten in with a score that low? (It is 100 off from an 800)...</p>
<p>I don’t think that’s likely. Even if they wanted to do something like that, there’s better stuff to sort by, like AMC scores maybe.
Last year 167 people were admitted with a score below 700. Check it out.
[MIT</a> Admissions: Admissions Statistics](<a href=“http://www.mitadmissions.org/topics/apply/admissions_statistics/index.shtml]MIT”>http://www.mitadmissions.org/topics/apply/admissions_statistics/index.shtml)</p>
<p>There’s no special pile for anything. All applications are evaluated holistically.</p>
<p>and if there were such a special pile, it’d be huge, and lots of people in that pile would get rejected.</p>
<p>I was admitted with a 690 math SAT score, even.</p>
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<p>May be at Harvard 
She was admitted to Harvard.</p>
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<p>I don’t think so, unless you cured cancer?</p>
<p>I feel really good now. I have 790M and worried the same thing :)</p>
<p>700’s lower than the average, but the actual test score is not as important as the application as a whole. 700 is high enough, as long as the rest of your application shows that you’re a fit for MIT. Don’t worry about your score. And as Renais & molliebatmit have said, yes people are admitted with <700s.
See this: [MIT</a> Admissions | Blog Entry: “What’s the big deal about 40^2?”](<a href=“http://www.mitadmissions.org/topics/apply/standardized_test_requirements/whats_the_big_deal_about_402.shtml]MIT”>http://www.mitadmissions.org/topics/apply/standardized_test_requirements/whats_the_big_deal_about_402.shtml)</p>
<p>I was admitted with a 700 on the Math section. I tried to make up for it with my Math subject test, on which I did pretty well.</p>
<p>@ Inconclusive: Of course I’ve cured cancer. You haven’t?
Sorry for the sarcasm, but I didn’t appreciate your previous comment.</p>
<p>And yes, I’m taking the Math SATII in January ('15 hopeful) so hopefully I can do well on that. I probably will, since I think with the SAT I just lost my focus a tad.</p>
<p>I also hope my ECs (probably will be a sports recruit, robotics, debate, Stanford research) will offset the 700. Also, interviews are my element :)</p>
<p>Maybe I’ll retake if I feel like it…but there are plenty of way more interesting things I could do in that time.</p>
<p>The stats were reassuring.</p>
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I was indeed not. </p>
<p>I was waitlisted at Harvard for undergrad and admitted to MIT.</p>
<p>@Millancad, you’re a URM with a 2300, it’s no surprise.</p>
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AA Female, to be specific.</p>
<p>I had a 690, and I was admitted. :)</p>
<p>“-@Millancad, you’re a URM with a 2300, it’s no surprise.
-AA Female, to be specific.”</p>
<p>Don’t… don’t even go there. She got in because she DESERVES to be there- not because of race, sex, or gender (as did I).</p>
<p>“Don’t… don’t even go there.”</p>
<p>quiteVALid, I think people go there because the MIT admissions site goes there:</p>
<p>“First, we determine whether they[applicants] are academically qualified, then we look for compelling reasons to admit. We go through each application evaluating not only the academic, but also the personal and extra-curricular excellence.”</p>
<p>Implying that admissions is a two-step process. But then:</p>
<p>“MIT is committed to admitting all minorities who we feel are academically qualified to attend the Institute.”</p>
<p>Making it sound like MIT admissions admits all minorities that pass the first filter. So, of course, if MIT says that it has a different, less rigorous process for admitting minorities, people believe that MIT has a less rigorous process for admitting minorities. It is sort of unavoidable. I don’t see why it should be taboo to mention if MIT puts it right there on its website.</p>
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<p>I dunno, I was pretty surprised. :P</p>
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<p>Obviously, "academically qualified’’ does not mean the same thing in both quotes.</p>
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I did first
Acually my SAT scores are much lower than yours. If you dont apply then you have zero chance.</p>
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Every body knows MIT cares about the student’s advantages and disadvantages, but I don’t thing they care about their sex and race. Just many of those disadvantaged people happen to be females and URM. Just my opinion though:)</p>
<p>I am a male and I can apply MIT but my sisters can not even apply the local Community College because my parents will not let them go. My older sisters don’t even have the education to apply CC, because they never went to school. :(</p>