Reinstating our SAT/ACT requirement for future admissions cycles

Re:Reinstating our SAT/ACT requirement for future admissions... by SamReidHughes on Monday March 28, 2022 @04:38PM (#30835267)

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.

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Re:Reinstating our SAT/ACT requirement for future admissions... by MiroF on Monday March 28, 2022 @04:52PM (#30835428)

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.

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Re:Reinstating our SAT/ACT requirement for future admissions... by SamReidHughes on Monday March 28, 2022 @04:59PM (#30835497)

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.

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Re:Reinstating our SAT/ACT requirement for future admissions... by MiroF on Monday March 28, 2022 @05:17PM (#30835699)

I thought you meant 800 across the categories.

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Re:Reinstating our SAT/ACT requirement for future admissions... by SamReidHughes on Tuesday March 29, 2022 @09:00AM (#30841942)

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

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