just wanted to kickstart this thread… also does anyone know when MIT EA decisions are being released?
Sometime in mid-December
From what I’ve seen, they come out on 12/14 at 6:28 PM
Just in case you didn’t know, 6:28 is Tau Time where Tau = 2π
Hey, so I’m an international applying EA. I sent in my CSS on the 13th of October but I’m just realizing MIT never attached it to my application due to an error in my date of birth. Does this mean I’ve missed the priority filing date? Or does the fact that I actually sent it in a while ago overrule that? I’d really appreciate some information
@Lovebug339
You should contact the admissions office and explain what happened.
If you submitted the CSS profile already and just made the mistake, I am sure they will make the correction.
Has anyone heard when EA decisions are coming out? I just heard that someone found out today.
Today?
According to @MITChris’s blog entry, they’re likely going to announce the decision date late this week.
I’m pretty sure it’s 12/14 at 6:28 PM, but I’m ready for surprises
Today is unlikely as there is no reason to advance the Mid December schedule by two weeks. All the best to everyone!
@Tamarix I think they were saying that MIT would announce when results would come out today, not that results would come out today
Sure. That makes sense! Thanks!
Not that it is exclusive for this thread, but it seems this is as good a place to ask this. @MITChris, rumor has it that you might know. When a college says “send us all scores”, and an applicant send all scores, including those he took when he was 9 year old (while applying to John Hopkins’ CTY, which required a 700 subscore in either math or writing). Will the low early scores hurt the applicant? Say, an early score was 700 math and 500 language/writing, and the final SAT was 1560, with 800 math and 760 language/writing, how badly the first early score will hurt?
Also, along the same lines: some websites post advice to concentrate on one topic at a time (per sitting), when having in mind only “superscoring” schools. Say, one SAT sitting student wants to do math only, and goes for it, and score 800. While the time for language/wrting comes along, he mostly relaxes, and gets his 500 for almost random answers. The next time he goes to take SAT, he reverses the split, concentrates on non-math only, and has 500 for math, and 780 for language. [It is actually a legit strategy for kids with some disabilities, for those who can hold one thing in their head at a time.] So the superscore is 1580, but the best score in one sitting is not great. How would MIT admissions look at such a case?
@ElenaParent Most colleges that require all scores sent only consider the highest score in each SAT section, so the low score would have a negligible effect. Furthermore, the colleges can see when the exam was taken and CollegeBoard says:
“Official score reports sent to colleges five or more years after a test date are accompanied by a message explaining that they may be less valid predictors of college academic performance than more recent scores.”
For your second question, schools that superscore would only consider the 800 and 780. Therefore, the impact of the lower scores would also be negligible. According to the MIT website:
“MIT uses superscoring. If you take the same test SAT, ACT, or SAT Subject Test multiple times, we will consider the highest score achieved in each section. We do this in order to consider all applicants in their best light.”
SAT scores for 8th graders or below are automatically and permanently deleted from your file, unless you specifically request the Collegeboard to keep them. They won’t hurt your application even if they are kept.
No college would ever count scores taken in middle school against a student. And, as already noted, they are expunged from the College Board record unless specified otherwise.
@ElenaParent, scores in the mid 500s range for an 8th grade are generally adequate for CRY, Duke TIP, and other such programs. A 700 score at that age is only required for CTY SET or Davidson.
@renaissancedad Thank you. The scores the kid got when he was 9 years old were 720 for math and something in 500’s for the other stuff. He got into CTY John Hopkins. He was in elementary school. The scores were never expunged because we specifically requested for them not to be expunged from the College Board. He is currently a 15-year old college Junior doing his Bachelor at UC Berkeley (math).
But! I was wondering, in general, and not so much for this specific case, whether the low initial scores have negative role on admission decisions. I was also wondering what real admission officers (I am assuming @MITChris is one of them) think of the strategy of doing “one half of SAT at a time” that is being advertised on some sites (like PrepScholar), where kid concentrates at one half of SAT at a time, getting great composite scores at the end, and bad “one sitting scores”.
@1NJParent Thanks. But like I said above, this was not my question. I was wondering, IN GENERAL, whether the low initial scores that are not deleted from College Board are hurting people at the schools where all scores are requested? What if the kid starts taking SAT “early and often” (assume he has fun doing it, which is true sometimes!), and gradually improves his/her scores from say 1100 to say 1550, and there are total of ten or so SAT “sittings”. Will the early low scores hurt the admission chances at the schools that request all scores?
@Fibbonachi10 thank you!