<p>I don’t know anything about places that aren’t MIT. :)</p>
<p>You can see more about the application reading and summarizing process at Matt McGann’s blog, in [this</a> entry](<a href=“http://www.mitadmissions.org/topics/apply/the_selection_process_application_reading_committee_and_decisions/reading_folders.shtml]this”>http://www.mitadmissions.org/topics/apply/the_selection_process_application_reading_committee_and_decisions/reading_folders.shtml). He doesn’t specifically talk about SAT scores here, though.</p>