<p>It seems the class of 2012 has 7% with 1600 on SAT1 (M + CR).</p>
<p>Does anyone know what is the acceptance rate of SAT1 (M+CR) 1600? The statistics listed on MIT web page for SAT1 CR is 27%.</p>
<p>Or can people post stats if got rejected from MIT with 1600 SAT1 (M + CR)?</p>
<p>are SAT scores really that important?? i’m guessing colleges don’t reject/admit you solely based on the fact that you have a perfect M + CR score…</p>
<p>I don’t know anything about the acceptance rates, but I do know what a perfect SAT score guarantees you: at schools of such high caliber such as MIT, a perfect SAT score will guarantee you that, should you be rejected, it wasn’t because of your score. That’s about it, really. It definitely doesn’t mean it will necessarily get you in, and it will probably be seen just as good as a 1550 (or a 2350 or whatever). IMO, at least.</p>
<p>What is the explanation of the drastic 9% change in admit rate from 1st to 2nd range?
Is it that the overall application of the students in the 2nd range is of lower quality which in turns says that SAT1 actually predict the overall quality of the students in a range to begin with if not necessarily a single student?
Which means that it is difficult to say that single student with SAT1 CR of 800 be superior to another student with SAT1 CR of 700 but it is true that the group of students with SAT1 CR of 800 essentially is superior to batch of students with SAT1 CR of 700.</p>
<p>SAT1 CR Applicants Admits Admit rate
750-800 2,149 576 27%
700-740 2,234 404 18%
650-690 2,147 258 12%
600-640 1,688 157 9%
550-590 950 63 7%
< 550 1,097 41 4%</p>
<p>indianInLA , where did you get these stats? I can’t seem to find them anywhere lol</p>
<p>[MIT</a> Admissions: Admissions Statistics](<a href=“http://mitadmissions.org/topics/apply/admissions_statistics/index.shtml]MIT”>http://mitadmissions.org/topics/apply/admissions_statistics/index.shtml)</p>
<p>I’ve seen those stats on the MIT website as well… I guess they show that SAT score is indicative of a student’s overall application strength, although I don’t like making that generalization. </p>
<p>That option is preferable, though, to MIT accepting students based on their scores, which I firmly believe they don’t do. </p>
<p>Sorry if that last sentence made no sense, I’ll probably be incoherent until tomorrow night at 9:01.</p>
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Yes, though I would say a very high SAT score is correlated with a strong application rather than a very high SAT score being predictive of a strong application – the correlation is not strong enough, IMO, to be predictive. But the better performance is at the level of the application, because the admissions officers themselves don’t discriminate between scores in the range of 750-800.</p>
<p>Something to consider is that MIT’s applicant pool as a whole is quite lopsided in terms of math SAT scores – according to the statistics, over 50% of last year’s applicants had an SAT I math score of 750 or above. So it’s tough to make the SAT math score at MIT be predictive of anything at all, because there’s not much variance in the pool to begin with. The reading scores are more distributed.</p>
<p>800/800 gets you a good look at MIT and elsewhere, but doesn’t guarantee acceptance. My son, a freshman at MIT, had that score (one sitting) and yet was rejected at some Ivies. Although we think some of those rejections were due to his GC making schools aware of his first choice (MIT), I also know that Harvard rejected a majority of the kids who applied there last year with 800/800 scores.</p>