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06-06-2006, 11:48 PM
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| MIT only consider the scores that makes you look the best. | 
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06-07-2006, 08:35 AM
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| Any additional SAT II's higher than 750 should be sent to MIT =) | |
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06-07-2006, 09:30 AM
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#33 | | Senior Member
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| A reminder that you don't get to choose which SAT II scores, or which SAT I scores for that matter, are sent to schools. When you order a score report, all scores for all SAT I/IIs you've taken are sent to the college. It is up to the Admissions staff to consider/ignore those scores as appropriate.
You list your best single-seating SAT I scores, and your math/science SAT II scores, on your MIT application, and only those two SAT IIs are required. As omareduardo13 says, the Admissions folks want to see you in your best light, so they are likely to note other high scores and ignore others.  | |
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06-07-2006, 10:22 AM
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#34 | | College Rep
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| If you get a bad score on a test that we don't require, it won't hurt you. If you do well, it can only help you. But only worry about doing well on the two that we do require! :-) | |
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06-15-2006, 08:42 AM
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| How much is Tuition and/or Room and Board for MIT ? | |
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06-15-2006, 10:15 AM
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06-15-2006, 12:05 PM
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| oh man, I can't afford this university!!!... How much scholarships/finicial aid do they grant? | |
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06-15-2006, 04:06 PM
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#38 | | Senior Member
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| MIT has need-based aid only -- no merit aid. Admissions are need-blind (so if you need aid, it will not make you a less attractive candidate), and MIT will meet 100% of demonstrated need, which they determine through reports of your family's income.
Most of us (75%?) get aid, and many of us get pretty substantial aid, although obviously it depends how much money your parents make. | |
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06-15-2006, 05:15 PM
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| They seem to have financial aid at a level where payment is just barely doable, involving substantial hardship for students and families alike. Frankly, I don't think that this policy makes much sense - if the university just increased financial aid packages across the board by a few thousand dollars, it would make the prospect of attendance much less marginal for most students. | |
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06-15-2006, 06:44 PM
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#40 | | Senior Member
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| Um, well, financial packages do vary from person to person. And what's marginal for one family may not be marginal for another. | |
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06-15-2006, 07:01 PM
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| Wow, randomperson, I disagree completely.
I know plenty of students (myself included) who get fantastic aid packages. I also know of several people who told MIT that they thought they wouldn't be able to attend because of financial concerns and received substantial increases in their aid packages.
I suppose we have very different experiences.
The point is, as Mollie said, that admissions is need-blind. So by all means, apply and see what kind of aid you can get. Chances are you'll be able to work it out. Doesn't hurt to try, right? | |
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06-15-2006, 07:15 PM
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| Okay, I've run up against the inevitable positive experiences of others. I'm sure that lots of families get financial packages that are very good for them. This wasn't my personal experience, and it wasn't the experience of many other people I know who were MIT admits. Since our evidence is all anecdotal, I suppose that it's pretty difficult to say which is really more common.
But I think that, in some sense, this establishes a point similar to my original one: when a significant portion of families are able to afford the school, and an also very significant portion isn't, the evidence suggests that financial aid is indeed in "marginal" territory. As long as admitted students' "ability to pay relative to financial aid" falls into a statistical distribution that isn't positively pathological, this indicates that small improvements in financial aid would make big differences, swinging many from one category (immense hardship) to another (doable expense). My intuitive image is of some sort of bell curve - I'm sure ability to pay relative to financial aid doesn't follow such a nice distribution, but if it's remotely similar the effect would be the same. | |
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06-17-2006, 10:57 AM
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| The EFC is not linear wrt income. The EFC is flat at lower income/asset levels until a sharp rise at the 60-80 k level. The comfort level index might look like an inverted bell curve with the minimum affordability near the EFC=total expense level. Anyone near this point would logicly view the FA system as inadequate. Those near the peaks of the curve would have no reason to view the system as anything but satisfactory. | |
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06-25-2006, 10:24 PM
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| does the highest combined subscore composite apply to ACT scores as well? Thanks. | |
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07-05-2006, 11:54 AM
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#45 | | College Rep
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| Yes - ACT and SAT are treated the same. | |
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