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I always thought that MIT was one of the most meritocratic colleges. In fact that's one of the main reasons why I want to go there. Compared to what other colleges are doing, I don't see how anyone can say that MIT accepts "athletes like crazy". I know that if you're the captain of the crew team at my school, you're guaranteed in at schools like Princeton and Stanford. Not at MIT. Same with nationally ranked tennis players and basketball players.
Anyways, since we seem to be using personal anecedotes in this thread, I don't know about the OP's school, but the students from my school who've been accepted to MIT over the past several years have all been amazing people without any exceptions.
And SAT scores don't mean anything.. I mean whos smarter: A) a person who makes a couple of mistakes (maybe because he stayed up late the night before researching a computer algorithm that interests him), like 2+3=6 or something equally trivial, and ends up with a 760 on his SAT Math section,
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B) a person who spends months taking SAT prep classes, retaking the tests over and over again until he is able to get 800 every time?
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