Most FAQ about admission at MIT

WAMOM2
Fri, 14 Mar 2008 17:31:56 +0000

I’ve often heard in the admissions blogs that once you hit a certain SAT score (say 750) you’ve shown you’re smart and the difference between that and an 800 say are incremental so not worth worrying about. In other words, it seems that you’ve met some threshold, and your admission will depend on other factors and you won’t necessary be at a disadvantage versus other students with higher scores.

Is this true with GPA as well? Is there some point at which the difference between say a 3.7 or a 3.8 and a 4.0 (unweighted and assuming the most rigorous courses) is not meaningful and admissions will be based on other factors (let’s assume SAT scores are very high)?