<p>Yup, that's exactly what I said. MIT take all the applications they receive and use a magic formula to rank them by how badly the applicants want to come. They then take 500 names from the top of that list, plus the first 500 girls they can find so the even gender ratio can push up their US News Ranking, and then a couple of black kids just for kicks. The application itself is just meant to kill trees. We are the beavers, after all.</p>
<p>No.</p>
<p>Wait.</p>
<p>Scratch that. That's not what I said at all.</p>
<p>What I said was that it's possible that they would be more inclined to admit someone who was more likely to matriculate.</p>
<p>I never said that anyone was oblivious to SAT scores...</p>
<p>...</p>
<p>...but I thought it.</p>
<p><em>twilight zone music</em></p>
<p>Man you're good at that!</p>