[easton]

Did SAT/ACT scores ever make a difference in applications here? I know they probably cut off around 1300-1400 (as do plenty of schools), but my understanding was that MIT wanted you to be doing tons of extracurriculars and other stuff that wasn't represented by standardized tests anyway.

[jeremyis]

IMO high scores were a necessary but not sufficient condition. It was definitely a data point used

[ghaff]

The system when I was familiar with it basically used SAT/GPA as one axis and other stuff on another axis. So you needed to hit some cutoff but if all you had was a perfect SAT, that wasn't enough.