Standardized test scores question -- which scores to send?

mathmomvt
Tue, 19 Oct 2010 17:18:01 +0000

We really don’t expect him to get accepted at MIT (though if we didn’t think it were possible, he probably wouldn’t bother to apply). His “numbers” are fine, but I don’t think he has that extra “something” to set him apart from the pack. He laughed when he got a letter from MIT encouraging him to apply. It basically said, your PSAT scores suggest that we wouldn’t totally laugh our @sses off if you applied here (I think the actual wording was more like “people with PSAT scores in your score range get accepted with greater frequency than people with lower scores” --shocking, no?)