<p>Hello Fellow CC Members,
I am applying to MIT as an international applicant. I only decided to apply to the US back in early May so I've been in a bit of a problem doing all of this. Its all a learning process but I hope everything works out in the end. I recently did my SAT and SAT 2. My scores are as follows:
In June this year I did the Physics SAT and got a 760 but I know I could do better
My first SAT came out to mid 1900 which I took in October
In November I did the Math II and received an 800
Now in December I finished my sat and my score came out to 2220. I got a 790 in Math, 770 in CR and a 660 in Writing.<br>
So here is my problem. My Writing score is super low in comparison to my other scores. How will MIT consider this? I studied my ass off for writing this November and I got this terrible score. How will this affect my chances. </p>
<p>However, I do have the chance to do a January SAT for MIT. SO here are my options. </p>
<p>a) Redo the SAT but this time only really bother with the writing section. Id rather not do this but if its the best option I'll do it</p>
<p>b) do the physics sat which I believe I can get an 800 in because the first time was just in general the first time I go through such a test. Then also do the Chemistry test because I'm really good at Chem and could do an 800 possibly. And the third SAT could be a math level 1 or of there is an sat I should consider possibly I'll do that. </p>
<p>I'm not asking for a chance me thread. Please don't go and say I'm not a worthy applicant because I am an athlete on the national Canadian team. Not a recruited sports athlete but I hope MIT would consider this .</p>
<p>Thanks for all your input. It is greatly appreciated !!!</p>
<p>Hope everyone gets what they want in the end :)</p>
<p>Your scores are just fine – really. Your 760 in physics is definitely good enough, and raising it to an 800 wont make a meaningful difference. Feel free to take chem if you want, but i get the feeling additional subject tests wont make a huge difference either. You might want to try to get that writing score up above 700, but it honestly isn’t a huge deal. Your writing ability will come through in your essays much more than on any standardized test. All MIT is looking to see from scores is that you are qualified and capable of handling the extremely rigorous academics (as you seem to be, from these numbers). The rest is in the qualitative stuff.</p>
<p>Mit does not consider the SAT writing section. MIT only looks at one SAT II Math, the one you score the highest in, so you obviously can’t do better on Math I than you already did on math II. That leaves physics and chemistry. Take them if you want but just like stated above, it probably won’t make that much of a difference on your application.</p>
<p>@NipTheMushroom
Thanks for the reply. So if I really want to just do the Chem and physics. They will barely play a role in my addmisions compared to my current stats, right?
@rothstem
Thanks for the reply. Then why do they include it in their admissions statistics? </p>
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<p>anonymous asked: “Is the writing portion of the SAT considered more or less than the other sections?”</p>
<p>Matt '00 replies: At this time, we are still evaluating the SAT Writing Test; it is not considered.</p>
<p>This link is from 4 years ago, I’m sure that I have seen this repeated more recently as well, I just don’t have the patience to figure out from where.</p>
<p>I guess it’s included because the information is available, so why not.</p>
<p>@rothstem
Thank you very much for this. Even if they consider it now I think it has much less of an impact compared to CR right?
Again thanks for the help!!! Its such a relief. I can sleep peacefully then lol</p>
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<p>The writing part is stupid. An MIT professor demonstrated that there is a huge correlation between the length of the essay and the score received. I only got a 4 on my ACT essay because I only wrote one page and I got into Harvard. If you want to get a good writing score, just like four pages of BS. They like it better than one page of well-written material. smh</p>
<p>@WritersBlues
I appreciate the sarcasm, to an extent. All I was asking here was if my score in writing would raise a flag during MIT admissions. Thanks for the reply though </p>
<p>And I did go through the ea thread. I know most people didn’t have a perfect score but most peoples scores were in line with each other. Mine aren’t which is why I put this up in the first place lol </p>
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