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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]good[/quote]The link didn't work for me but this one does:[url]https://mitadmissions.org/blogs/entry/we-are-reinstating-our-sat-act-requirement-for-future-admissions-cycles/[/url]Yes, it makes hiring so much easier.  We have to thoroughly test applicants ourselves from more racist, cultural fit type colleges in IT as they have just been good at taking nine classes and dropping all but the gut classes.  The objective result also helps us find often overlooked, underrepresented candidates from poorer more disadvantaged areas who put the work in individually.   A wonderful reprieve after having to deal with an enormous ego and corresponding finger-pointing to deal with the "shock" of how weak they really are in spite of their genitalia/skin/daddy/delusion.  MIT using data-driven correlation for more fair entry is awesome![/quote]

I can definitely believe that MIT found that requiring the SAT helped better select high school students who will do well at MIT.

But for companies hiring MIT graduates, wouldn't grades and internships and research tell you way more about the applicant than a single test taken in high school? That is, even if the admissions office picked some students who won't do well in college, can't employees tell who didn't do well in college?[/quote]

By and large, if you major in STEM (and why else would one attend MIT), you will need extremely strong math skills.  A 700 on the SAT Math section student is likely to struggle at MIT (not all would, but majority would).  What I don't get is why MIT would be a school a student would apply to if they were not exceptionally strong in MATH?   
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Not all majors are STEM even at MIT.
There are easy majors too for URMs, Legacies, First Gen, atheletes, etc.[/quote]

NP. MIT doesn’t do legacy admissions. And there are a couple of “easy majors” on a relative basis (compared to other majors at MIT) but they are still very difficult compared to other schools. [/quote]

HYSM here.  This is exactly true.  Don't count on any easy admit to MIT. [/quote]

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