<p>International students probably due average higher SAT scores simply due to being encouraged by their surroundings to apply to MIT (where international students with lower scores would be discouraged). International students don’t perform noticeably differently at MIT or after as far as I can tell (ie, they are not particularly more or less mediocre). The SAT’s only mean so much.</p>
<p>And StarCraft: Brood War all the way. I don’t know what Starcrafters you know, but most that I know still love SC1 :)</p>
<p>My univ counselor threatened me when I told him I wanted to apply to MIT. He probably didn’t allow me if I got score lower than 2200 as he emphasized how every single applicant with 2200+ was rejected from our international school multiple times. I had to sacrifice quite a few universities for MIT though. I was still glad that I could apply because I heard he shouted at a girl last year who was willing to apply to MIT with SAT score about 2000 that she almost cried.</p>
<p>@PiperXP, do you know the SAT range for MIT international student? Among international MIT peer students, what was the general range, if you know?</p>
<p>Speaking of math jokes, what kind of math jokes are well known in the USA ?
I know some popular french one, but they don’t mean anything in english ( e.g. ln3, e^(i*Pi), etc.)</p>
<p>I highly doubt if there is even be any ‘everything in context’ method for SAT score. High school information is irrelevant to SAT score and family income isn’t reliable enough. Universities have no way of finding out whether the students had access to extensive tutors or just took the test on their own. Also, to assume majority of Asian students have access to professional SAT lessons during breaks would be to make a very biased judgment.</p>
<p>They don’t ask any hard or unexpected questions. I haven’t done one for MIT but I’ve done interviews for Harvard and Princeton. They asked about what their schools appealed to me, motivation behind my intended major, extra curricular activities and told me to ask any question about the schools to them. It’s much more informal than you may think, so don’t worry about it. Just prepare those 3 questions.</p>
<p>Applicant from Morocco here. As I’m reading through this thread, I’m thinking to myself there’s no way I’m getting in. Hahaha, oh well. I had fun with the essays :D.</p>
<p>Well, MIT considers either the TOEFL scores or the SAT scores for non-native English speaking internationals. So I wonder how a good TOEFL score(iBT; 110/120) and a not-so-good SAT score (1950) will fare. I have sent them both along with my SAT Subject Test scores. (Math Level 2: 770, Physics: 680, Chemistry: 630) Fingers crossed. By the way…</p>
<p>Country: India
Intended Course : Course 2
Number of applicants you know from your country : 0 (Probably many I don’t know)</p>
<p>WOW!! 2 awesome things!!
1)This thread rose from the dead.
2)I found an applicant with lower scores than me
:D:)
Just kidding…MIT is fine with most scores as long as you have done something meaningful in life and is willing to go to MIT for a reason…MIT is never the cause…only reason:)</p>
<p>I am not a genius to laugh at you:p
I haven’t got better ones than you. We look pretty similar in these scores.
SAT1 : 2100
SAT 2: 800/780/750 MPC (math l2)
TOEFL: 109</p>