How another top school adcom looks at admissions

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<p>Thanks for starting a thread Ottoline. I do think that there’s far too much discussion of SAT and ACT scores on this (and other college threads). I especially dislike chance respondents stating that a 30+ ACT is “too low” or that a 700+ SAT II should be retaken. Hopefully the MIT comments (from this year I should add) may help dispel some of that hysteria:

Have taken either the ACTs/SATs and two SAT IIs (one math, one science), and have done reasonably well (for us: scoring around the 700 range or higher on each subsection of the SATs or 30 and up on each subsection of the ACTs, though these are guidelines, and every year we accept people with lower and reject people with higher)

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