<p>Hey guys, I took the SAT in January and got a 2130 (710 on every section). I signed up for the May SAT and I'm shooting for 750 in every section. How does my current score compare for MIT Admissions and should I retake it in May?</p>
<p>MIT says that they consider all scores in the 700’s to be equal; they are all good enough. But if you have been prepping for a couple of months since you last took the exam, and you are scoring much higher now on practice tests, and you don’t mind taking it again, then retake it in May. Especially if you’re applying to any other highly selective schools since other schools may care more about exam scores than MIT does.</p>
<p>As far as MIT is concerned, your retake is pointless.</p>
<p>Because I have been prepping since I took the exam, I’ll probably take it again just to be on the safe side since MIT is not the only school I will be applying to. Thanks for the responses @rothstem and @PiperXP</p>
<p>Best of luck!</p>
<p>@PiperXP quick question, how can you be so sure that my retake is pointless for MIT?</p>
<p>@ijustwantsuccess - Because MIT doesn’t care about scores past 700 and has explicitly stated this many times.</p>
<p>Then why was I specifically asked to retake mine in January? My sat’s were cr760, m 710, w720. They wanted me to try and get my math at least 750. I was deferred from early decision. Like a proper moron, I re-took sat’s and saw minimal improvement but honestly, I didn’t have time to prepared for them I was rejected last week. Not really surprised. That sat request just did me in.</p>
<p>^Forgot to mention my sat ll scores from spring, 2013 -math 730,Chem 780, ushistory 800</p>
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<p>… asked by whom?</p>
<p>A coach.</p>
<p>If you were told to re-take by a coach, that was the coach’s opinion alone and not the opinion of the admissions office.</p>
<p>Coach was supposedly relaying input from admissions office.</p>
<p>He really wasn’t. There should be a really strong emphasis there on the “supposedly”</p>
<p>Most admissions offices don’t go through their coaches. Son got a 2370 and was waitlisted. Unless you can score over that number, I wouldn’t retake the test.</p>
<p>I don’t know why you are so insistent that I must be wrong? I developed a good rapport with this coach over our months of speaking and emailing each other. And for the record aunt bea, a classmate of mine was accepted this year with a 2070. Good luck to your son.</p>
<p>Aunt bea, correction: she superscored a 2120. I am ok with not getting in to MIT. In hindsight, dragging my feet with the sat re-take and other slacker related tendancies was likely a sign that I knew it wasn’t the right fit. Although I have been recruited by a fair number of division 1 schools and offered nice scholarships, I prefer to compete at an excellent D3 school where academics can be my primary focus. I do have other good options.</p>
<p>Well, you kind of proved that taking the exam again is useless for anyone with scores in each subject above a 700 if a classmate of yours got accepted with scores even slightly below. The admissions office is always repeating that after scores of 700 or higher it’s the rest of your application that is important, I retook my SAT because I thought that my 710 in math was too low but it was unnecessary because my score didn’t improve, but I was accepted anyway. </p>
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<p>Your coach is not MIT-affiliated and clearly is unfamiliar with MIT admissions. </p>
<p>Piper, you must think I am a special kind of stupid. The head coach in question IS employed by MIT and has been for several years. Do you think I am getting my information and would go to the trouble of re-taking my sat’s based on the information of some random high school coach? I was in regular contact with this coach and members of the sports staff at MIT since last April. I visited the school twice, once in the summer and once for a few days during first semester. There were no communication problems.</p>
<p>I originally posted on here to share my experience because the title of this thread was so directly relevant to me, which frankly, I questioned. To keep telling me I am wrong and no MIT-affiliated coach would ever ask me to do that is small-minded and patronizing. Based on this thread, I can’t for the life of me understand why seemingly intellectually brilliant people feel the need to bash me for alleged lies or my relatively low sat scores. If your arrogance and elitism is representative of the general population of MIT, then I am comforted by the fact that it definitely is not the right fit for me.</p>