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<p>I agree completely.</p>
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<p>Here’s where you’re wrong. MIT rejects plenty of applicants who are valedictorians with perfect SAT scores. Neither of these things guarentees acceptance.</p>
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<p>Wrong again. If you are anywhere within the 100% of applicants, passion is going to be more of a factor. Being a match for the school supercedes having good numbers. You can get into MIT without being in the top quarter, without having 1400 SATs, and without being a URM (I know of an '09er that did). You can’t get in without being passionate.</p>