Author: Jeremiah Penery
Date: 17:33:46 09/30/99
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On September 30, 1999 at 18:22:40, hgkjhg wrote: >If i get a 1550+ sat, but my average is only 87, do i get accepted or not. What do you mean by your 'average'? Also, getting into MIT (or any good school) depends on a great deal more than your grades and SAT scores. I'll share a story: One of my friends and I both applied for MIT a couple years ago. He was the valedictorian of our class (4.3 GPA or so) and had (I think) 1460 SAT. Unfortunately, he had a couple discipline problems in his past, and had even been suspended for a while from school. This certainly affected his chances of getting in (which he didn't), but it also certainly wasn't the _only_ thing that prevented him from getting in. I had a 1500 SAT and a GPA of about 3.85, and I also didn't get into MIT. I'm sure my essay had some part in this, as it was a cynical view on the state of public education. :) The point, again, is that it is not grades and tests alone that will get you accepted (or not accepted) to a (very) good school. Jeremiah
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