<p>collegealum314: Pretty much agree. I don’t know how I can put it any more clearly. There is an observed effect. It is not statistically significant.</p>
<p>JeffAtMIT: I wish you would stop bringing up the Ivy strawman. I’ve already said MANY MANY times that other schools are MUCH worse. This includes of course Ivy league schools. I say so again in case you missed it the first four times. There is NO disagreement between us on this issue.</p>
<p>I don’t know what you mean by “You can bring your wonderful book recommendation to the Ivy forums.” The original poster asked a question about MIT, not about Ivy schools. The answer that I gave is relevant to the original question and to MIT specifically. It’s ridiculous to suggest that I take my answer to another forum.</p>
<p>No amount of quoting from the MIT admissions website constitutes valid statistical analysis. Indeed, as I said in my previous post, I sure hope the admissions office is not publicly posting their raw data.</p>