How will the pandemic affect MIT admission this year?

sherimba03
Sun, 06 Sep 2020 03:32:44 +0000

@Lindagaf can you please explain what you mean by comparing students with the same application quality but from Westchester, Bronx, and OC? I’m assuming that Westchester is mostly wealthy, like much of OC is, and Bronx is not? So you were saying that hardship will be more important this year than MIT would otherwise normally consider?

I am of the opinion that it would be a shame to not consider the scores of kids who took the SAT or ACT last fall. That was not due to luck but instead to the student being someone who showed more initiative than your average high school junior. Isn’t that exactly the kind of student MIT would favor? So I think it’s great that MIT is test optional and not test prohibited like the UCs just announced. That just seems unfair to the go-getter kids who knocked the test out of the park in the fall of junior year.