Conflicted about whether to apply

anon89723960
Sat, 25 Sep 2010 12:14:12 +0000

Don’t matter makes it sound like we can all just take everyone’s scores over 700 just write “pass!” on our transcripts.



Unless I’ve misunderstood what Admissions has been saying for years and years, we essentially can. After 700, you meet their qualifications (which they have made by careful study of performance of current/past MIT students), and it’s the rest of your app that will get you in. Admissions won’t go, “Oh, whoa, a 750, this person is so much better than that 700 person”. The difference isn’t meaningful at that point.