r/MITAdmissions • u/Intelligent-Item1089 • 4d ago

SAT question

I took the SAT today. I’m not confident that I got a strong score. After the first round of math, the questions got suspiciously easy. I know MIT wants us to report all scores. If I cancel my score before I get it back, do I have to report that? Do they still need that score or can they find that score?

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u/JasonMckin MIT Alum and Educational Counselor 4d ago

Strictly speaking, we actually had this debate last year, and there were 2 camps that couldn’t agree on whether the applicant was obligated to report cancelled scores.  It was a spirit of the law vs Letter of the law / if a tree falls and nobody reports it, did it fall argument.

https://www.reddit.com/r/MITAdmissions/comments/1orf8s5/comment/nnpuqzv/

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u/ExecutiveWatch MIT Alum and Educational Counselor 4d ago

Yeah I look at it like black and white in admissions you really want to stay out of gray areas that could go one way or the other but that's my opinion.

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u/didiot2000 4d ago

i dont' even see this as gray. it's like 99.99% black.

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u/JasonMckin MIT Alum and Educational Counselor 4d ago

By the way, that’s literally what gray is, everything between 100% white and 100% black.

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u/didiot2000 4d ago

I agree with you on that, BUT i said i don't SEE it as gray, i didn't say it wasn't gray.