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> The real joke is that we as a society still give weight to institutions like Harvard. Indeed. I don't understand the fascination with Harvard when you can go

• ghaff 4y ago
  I generally agree :-) Though many of the same dynamics apply to MIT even if some of the specifics differ. MIT isn't admitting students purely on the basis of test scores. I knew a long ago admissions director at MIT. At least at the time, they basically had an x-y chart with quantitative on one axis and qualitative on the other. There was a quantitative lower-bound cutoff but, beyond that, the two factors could balance each other out. (e.g. decent but not not fantastic SATs could be balanced out by really eye-catching qualitative factors and vice versa.)
  • dehrmann 4y ago
    At least MIT says that if you can't do well on the SAT, you're not going to pass your calc final.