Are all scores in the 99th percentile considered the same for MIT admissions? For example, would a student with a 1530 and another student with a 1560 be treated the same in the admissions process?
Yeah. After a point, they’re considered the same.
All they want to see is you reaching a benchmark of academic excellence and competence at MIT, if u get in. The fight starts after proving that competence. For more info, google MIT’s stats for avg SAT scores, and see if you fall in the 25th-75th perc. range. All u need to worry about is at lteast be to the 25th perc. or be to the 50th perc. for safety. Anything better, is well, safer.
Hope this helps.
THe resources are easily searchable via google.
Browse through the MIT website in the admissions area. There is all kinds of information about applying and what MIT is looking for.
An SAT score of 1530 would seem definitely adequate but there is do much more that MIT is looking for than just an SAT score.
MITChris has been quoted multiple times saying that once they see that your SAT scores start with the number 7 or your ACT scores start with the number 3, they feel comfortable that if they admit you, you will be able to handle the rigorous coarse load at MIT. Then they move on to the rest of your application.
I agree that there’s a threshold where all highers numbers are relatively equal, but the data certainly don’t support it being 1400 and 30. I’d guess that 1530 is right on the cusp of that threshold.
Some (statistically invalid) estimates of the 25% and 50% noted above are in the range of 1500 and 1530-1540.
As noted, that just gets you over the hurdle to look at the rest of your application - the admission percentage might have jumped from 6% to 10%.
Using a threshold for SAT scores as a gate makes any kind of statistical analysis of those scores meaningless. All the other factors are what decides admission.
@RichInPitt My kid got in with a 1480
Causation vs correlation. Most likely students with very strong application happen to have very high test scores. That doesn’t mean that there aren’t strong applications that have test score a bit lower. If those students have great essays,
outstanding extracurriculars, and glowing recommendations, an SAT of 1400 is not what would keep them out of
the door.
I got a 1440 on my SATs and a 3.86 / 4.0 unweighted high school GPA, for what it is worth.
Definitely not the strongest scores or grades that MIT admissions folk had ever seen, but fortunately it was good enough to get accepted into MIT,
Also got into Caltech, Yale, Princeton, Johns Hopkins, Columbia, Cornell, and my safety school Purdue. Rejected from Harvard, Stanford, and Rice though.
I am not sure how much more competitive the admissions process has gotten since the Class of 2012 applied to MIT, but I would say that you don’t have to have a perfect GPA or SAT scores to be a competitive candidate.
Hey
Please can we apply to MIT without SAT subject Test scores ?
Nnig03, the first thing you must learn to do is research to find out the “rules of the game”. IF you were to look at the MIT admission’s web site, you would find the answer to your question. That is; you must take SAT subject tests.
Yes. Your application won’t be considered because it is missing a required piece, but you can still spend the money to apply.
One of my interviewees didn’t send in his test scores in both Early Action and Regular Decision cycles.
He didn’t just get deferred. He was Not Accepted (= rejected).
That’s the first time I’ve seen that!
Lesson: If you don’t want to get auto-rejected, make sure to submit all required parts of the application.
@agapetos Can you clarify what it is that you have never seen before?
Are you simply saying that you had never seen someone submit an application without their Subject Test Scores?
I imagine that out of the thousands of applications MIT receives each admission circle there would be at least some that end up uncompleted. Until this year, SAT’s were administered at the end of January, quite a few weeks after parts 1 and 2 of the application were due. I’m sure that there must have been some applicants that left taking the exams until the last minute, after the rest of their application was completed, and then either circumstances left them unable to take the exams in the end. It doesn’t seem far fetched at all.
Or Are you saying that one of your interviewees didn’t ONLY get deferred, but he ALSO got rejected? Isn’t that what happens to most EA applicants, they first get deferred in December, but then also get rejected on Pi Day?
Or are you saying that he Did Not get deferred, he ONLY got rejected?
That doesn’t make sense to me either, because how does an applicant have the opportunity to be in both EA and Regular Decision cycles, if they didn’t get deferred in EA?
Just for accuracy, SATs were not administered in Jan 2018 either. The last time was in 2017.
If @Nnig03 is international, he or she should consult the international dates for SAT subject tests as soon as possible, and consider late registration for June international subject tests.
Google is your friend. Some of these questions can readily be answered by spending 10 seconds on the internet.
I always believe you should look at the math/ebrw separately (when comparing your percentile with the admitted students’ data). 1530 of 800 math/730 ebrw vs 730 math/800 ebrw could be viewed differently by MIT. But I agree both are good scores and if you got in, they were not the winning tickets; if you didn’t, they were not the reasons.
Math II and another science subject tests are needed for MIT.
@evergreen5 Thanks for the correction.
@makemesmart Math I and Math II are both acceptable options to fulfill the MIT math subject test requirement.
@UglyMom : I had never seen an applicant who hadn’t submitted/didn’t submit test scores at all.