[MiroF]

> I'd expect that most students who will be able to survive at MIT can make the SAT threshold with no gaming of the test and no test prep other than maybe doing one or two free sample tests.

Eh, not so sure. The "threshold", if we really trust that they do threshold and don't consider overperformance beyond that threshold (something I am skeptical of), is likely quite high.

[SamReidHughes]

The MIT threshold is 800 minus noise. So MIT can't consider overperformance on the SAT (math section) because the test is designed to make students indistinguishable at the top. All it does is help them weed out the chaff who won't be able to handle the mandatory math and physics classes that all students have to pass.

[MiroF]

I don't know what "800 minus noise" means. All 800s is something only about 500 people achieve a year, and not all of them are going to MIT.

[SamReidHughes]

800 on the math section is something a ton of people get. Way way more than 500. More like ten thousand per year, maybe more.

[MiroF]

I thought you meant 800 across the categories.

[SamReidHughes]

I should have figured that was your assumption when you had the 500 number in your reply. Dumb on my part.