I know that it’s silly to ask what are my chances based upon a few data points. And I know SAT isn’t everything. But is there a minimum SAT to even be considered? I have a very high GPA and a great resume (International Broadcom MASTERS, ISEF, FIRST World Championships, Ten80 National Championships, NCWIT AIC National Winner, published research, internship, apprenticeship, etc.). But I am terrible at high stakes tests. I’ve only passed 3 out of 5 AP exams (didn’t pass calc A/B junior year). So, what SAT score is too low to even be considered?
The common data set is one good place to start. It shows how many enrolled students had SAT scores within the ranges shown.
Section C8 - nearly all enrolled students have SAT scores of 700+ in math and 600 plus in ELA.
https://mitadmissions.org/apply/process/stats/
Going forward it is a good idea to do some basic research on your own before posing a question on CC. Often you can get information directly from the school which would be 100% accurate. For this question you can google “XYZ university class profile” or get the school’s common data set by googling “XYZ university common data set.”
Unsolicited advice - try to figure out why you don’t perform as well as you feel you should on “big stakes tests” (anxiety, lack of proper preparation etc.) and try to figure out how to handle things better – once you get to college you will have some classes where the grade for the class depends solely on the midterm and final and you will need to be able to demonstrate what you know on those exams.
I’m very familiar with common data sets and they don’t have the information I asked for. I’ve used the “What are my chances?” tools and they’re not very useful or accurate. I know the 25/75th percentiles for MIT and that’s also not what I requested. The CDSs also don’t say what extracurriculars they value or the different majors’ entrance requirements.
Unsolicited advice - you could have just said, “The common data sets have a lot of great information” and you wouldn’t come across as a condescending know-it-all.
Well alrighty then. I’ll just leave this to say that your follow up post highlights (to me anyways) that you haven’t looked into this much at all.
Go look at the MIT admissions blogs for the activities MIT is looking for, Do a search on admissions requirements for different majors. Read through some of the other posts on this forum. Sometimes the answers you think you are looking for point out that you are asking the wrong questions. I would suggest that maybe this is the case here.