Conflicted about whether to apply

resilient193
Sun, 26 Sep 2010 21:00:09 +0000

@MStocksl
It’s not that “it doesn’t matter”. It does matter. It’s just that after 700, admission officers will not focus on your academic ability (because they know you’re qualified) and instead will see if you’re really the right Match.
The 700 just means, if you score above that, you’re pretty much guaranteed to be academically qualified, so it’s moot to focus too much on it.

And the 700 is not a cutoff score. Cutoff score means if you score below it, you’ll get rejected, which is not the case.

For MIT, if you do get below 700, the Admission officers will try to look for other indicators for your academic strength (APs, grades, etc). However, if you’re not significantly below it, it doesn’t matter much anyways.