<p>In order to know how feasible it is to do a full holistic review of each applicant, you would have to know how many people are in the admissions office that read applications and how many people read the application on the first review. </p>
<p>My experience is that MIT is very transparent about their admissions. </p>
<p>It’s hard to say in practice where the holistic review ends. It does get harder as a person’s scores become significantly lower. However, if you look at the common data set there are a some people that get in with scores in the 600-650 range on the math SAT subsection. This suggests that all of the people in that range at least get read. If you get lower than 600, I would bet that they would still read it, if only because there aren’t a lot of people that low who apply.</p>