<p>Everyone who talked to me about MIT all agreed that MIT is truly “weird”. Scores and prizes is just one aspect. They look at it as a whole. There is no guarantee that a 2400 will make it, or 1900 won’t, especially when they offer another score choice for int’l student: TOEFL + SAT II, omitting SAT which is a real big disadvantage for int’l students.</p>
<h1>YM1992: Don’t focus too much on numbers. From my perspective, to MIT, numbers only cannot make you tick. I know there are many International Olympiad medalists who didn’t make it into MIT, even though they had pretty (and even extremely) high GPA, high rank, high TOEFL and SAT II scores.</h1>
<p>Of course a low score on SAT may lessen your chance. But that won’t hurt much as “wrong” attitude.
However I don’t think there is somebody out there who knows what “MIT stuffs” are, except the adcoms.</p>