How important is SAT for admissions?

[molliebatmit]

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@gsp&lt;em&gt;silicon&lt;/em&gt;valley

I interpret these numbers to mean that the successful MIT candidate will score very high in the SAT or ACT !!!</p>

<p>Candidates with a strong GPA, but without stellar SAT or ACT scores, may not be seriously considered for admission.

You can’t make that conclusion without information about the SAT/ACT makeup of the applicant pool. </p>

<p>The applicant pool as a whole tends to be quite full of people who have high standardized test scores – if you look at the statistics to which mootmom linked above, you’ll see that 86% of last year’s applicant pool had math scores above 650, and 78% of the applicant pool had math scores over 700.</p>

<p>It shouldn’t, therefore, be surprising that the majority of admits had scores higher than 700 – that’s what you’d expect just based on the applicants alone.</p>