<p>a 680 math on regular sat (with 800 reading 800 writing) </p>
<p>but then 800 math 2 </p>
<p>does the math 2 kind of make up for math 1?</p>
<p>That is beyond weird. Do you know what happened? I’m just another applicant, but if I were an adcom, I’d be very confused by this. I wouldn’t at all doubt that you’re not a bright, qualified applicant, as shown by the other three scores, but this would definitely confuse me. I don’t know about you, but I wouldn’t want the people evaluating me being confused. </p>
<p>I’d say take the SAT again, but you did so well on the other sections, that it almost seems not worth it. Honestly, this is really weird.</p>
<p>Not weird at all to me. A 680 on the regular SAT could mean missing around 5-6 questions. Miss 5-6 questions on the SAT Math II, and you get an 800 almost certainly. What it says to me is that you might have trouble being careful on timed tests with little nooks and crannies, have overall good math skills as seen in your SAT II score…and that you have pretty strong reading/writing skills too. </p>
<p>I don’t think the 680 would make or break you at MIT (just my guess - I have no qualification to say so, but my hunch is that since around 700 goes for them in general, having a strong Math II and overall very high SAT I should mean they don’t care much anymore), but in more numbers-driven admissions processes, you might benefit from improving that score…but not even really, because most of those blind numbers type processes will just see that your overall SAT score is high, and that you have a good SAT II math.</p>
<p>I’d ask the College Board to do a re-check on my SAT M</p>