<p>I think what there are far more ways to impress the adcoms.</p>
<p>Perhaps it’s just really late at night, but I have to wonder, what is it with so many applicants. Everyone is extraordinarily careful every step of the way. What happened to the guys in the garage throwing caution to the wind! Don’t try to just worm into MIT! Strive to be among the best of applicants. Get into the mindset you’re going to kick some ****ing ass at MIT!!! Dream big! Then start working piece meal to make that dream happen! You can tell when you’ve got the vision and the stuff backing you that things like SAT won’t stand in your way. </p>
<p>NOTE: It is highly unlikely that you will totally kick everyone’s ass at MIT. But who cares, you’re a teenager, not some 30 year old asst prof stressing over tenure and grants.</p>
<p>I am just happy that the testing phase is over for me. :)</p>
<p>well i am another aspiring MIT student just about to join my junior year in the fall. I wish u good luck and hope you get into ur dream university.</p>
<p>Just my hunch from reading some CC threads:</p>
<p>SAT score 2400 would give you 50% chance at MIT/Harvard.
SAT score 2250 - 2390 would 15% chance.
SAT score below 2250 would a chance much lower than 15%.</p>
<p>And SAT scores seem to correlate with your GPA and most EC achievements esp. such as academic competitions (math, science, and communication-related, etc.), and in some cases, sports and leadership. One may debate this point… I am saying this based on a sample of maybe a dozen students.</p>
<p>i think assigning percentages to SAT score is a very bad idea
because as MIT dad also said it correlates with a LOT of other things
so someone with 2400 and bad GPA, NO EC no leadership, no other awards have as good of a chance as almost zero.
my point is… SAT scores really don’t mean as much as they seem, it’s the other things and over all picture that is MAKING the DIFFERENCE between applicants… this year the only people that got into MIT from my school all had scores of below 2250 and are both male and mostly asian
so …there are only so much SAT scores can help… and for MIT that isn’t very much</p>
<p><strong><em>UPDATE</em></strong>***
June 2007 SAT II Subject Tests
Chemistry 750<br>
Mathematics Level 2 770</p>
<p>Are these scores competitive enough?</p>
<p>the scores are within the first and third quartile
so that makes you competitive, so it’s not going to be a deal breaker, but it’s not going to get you in either! just keep in mind
SAT 2 scores don’t mean that much, just a small part.</p>
<p>just a random fact though, out of the 400 people in my graduating class, we have at least 30 people that have 800s on the math 2c,
and we have at least 15 that got 800 on chemistry, however very few of them will get into MIT
having an average SAT score won’t lower or higher your “chances”. For MIT it is 13%</p>
<p>Rainynightstarz, where did you see these ranges for MIT.
Thank you, I just wanted to see if they were considered competitive. :)</p>
<p>if my CR and math scores on the SAT are a bit lower than MIT’s middle 50% scores of 660 CR and 720 M, can I still get in?</p>
<p>are there MIT students attending now with lower SAT scores then what they have on their website?</p>
<p>also, I’m male & indian (from the country :D).</p>
<p>Well, “middle 50%” does directly lead to the fact that 25% of admitted students scored below that range. You can see more details about the scores of matriculating students if you look at MIT’s Common Data Sets for the past few years. If you drill down to section C9 in specific, you will see the percentage of incoming freshmen with scores in various ranges. </p>
<p>However, as has been noted in other threads here, international admissions are so incredibly competitive that I’d guess an international applicant with scores below the middle 50% would need to have some other very special characteristics to be admitted. I believe India has the third most applicants among internationals: it is a very tough applicant pool. If you’re serious about applying, try your hardest to find an EC (alumni interviewer) to meet with: there ARE overseas ECs. Best of luck!</p>
<p>No I mean my parents are from India. I was born and raised in the states.</p>
<p>But thanks for the data sets.
So when it says 25th percentile, it means 25% of the entering freshmen had that average score? And 75% of them had that score?</p>
<p>It means what 25th and 75th percentile means. 25% of the matriculating students had scores below that range, and 25% had scores above that range.</p>
<p>gotcha, now I feel much better hah</p>