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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]MIT dean of admission said don't bother to retake if over 1550.[/quote]

Link/source? So if they have two identical students, one with 1560 and one with 1600, they roll a die? Or they take the 1600? Do they prescreen with a cutoff, and then drop the score from consideration?[/quote]

It’s a threshold. Here’s the MIT director of admissions talking about it on that Dartmouth podcast:

[quote]we find that testing is helpful because we have found that at MIT it's predictive. Maybe that's because when students come to school here, they take tests and that's one of the ways that they get through our curriculum. And so we do find that it's helpful and we want to have confidence in every student we admit. I do think that even at a place like MIT where again we're going to be requiring tests again, that testing has an outsized view in most students' minds about how important it actually is. * * * It's one of the pieces of an application that gives us an indicator as to how well a student is going to do in our curriculum. And once we have confidence that a student is going to do fine and thrive in our curriculum, we don't use the tests to make decisions. So we don't make decisions by test score. So we don't say, hey, this student has a higher test score than that student, therefore we'll admit this student over that student. All of the other things that we might look at about a student's motivation, their interests, those things are how we ultimately make decisions, not based on your tests.[/quote]

https://admissions.dartmouth.edu/https%3A/admissions.dartmouth.edu/follow/admissions-beat-podcast/admissions-beat-s2e3-transcript[/quote]

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