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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]two thoughts

35 is a lot easier to get than 780, esp for verbal side.

- This busts the [b]myth that everything above a 1500 or 1520 is the same. "A hurdle to pass[/b]". Nope they think 780 is higher than 750. [/quote]

lol   They also said a perfect score is a dime a dozen.  [/quote]

Where do they say some a dozen?

Perfect scores are more common than they used to be but there are less than 1000 of them every year.  There used to be like 7 of them.  You'd make the news in the 1980s of you got a perfect score.  [/quote]

By "they" I don't mean Caltech.  I meant DCUM moms ...[/quote]

CalTech and MIT are the only schools looking to fill 75% of the class from that 1580+ bucket, though. HYPS fill 25% of the class from that bucket, 50% from the 1500-1570 bucket, and 25% from the sub-1500 bucket. So DCUM moms are correct that 1500 or 1520 is the threshold for an unhooked kid to bother applying. [/quote]

Where are you getting that MIT targets to have 75% of the class as 1580 and over?

My child was told by a recruiter that only 25% of MIT are above 1570.

Or do you just mean MIT is "looking to fill" as in it aspires to have 75% in the 1580 bucket, but the reality is that MIT constantly falls far, far short of this "looking to fill" ideal?  If that's what you are saying, I think that's an important distinction of MIT's goals for building a class vs. the reality of MIT admission.

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No, I think you’re right and MIT, like HYPS, is only shooting for 25% from that 1580 bucket. [/quote]

My DD has 1580, 3.9 from a no-grade-inflation school, good ECs but none of the math, science competitions. Should she apply to Caltech or no chance? [/quote]

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