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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>