800 points on one section will get you into MIT, as that's a perfect score. 1000 on combined seems very unlikely to get you into SAT; the 25th percentile is 1500.

https://www.prepscholar.com/sat/s/colleges/MIT-SAT-scores-GP...

I was replying to a comment indicating that URMs can get in with extremely low scores. My point is that they can get in with somewhat lower scores. But they still have to clear a much higher threshold than 800 combined.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology/Typical SAT scores

Reading and Writing 730-780, Math 780-800

Why does it have such a weird score range?

You get negative points for answering incorrectly, to disincentivize blind guessing.

The SAT no longer penalizes guessing (i.e. incorrect answers).[0]

[0] - https://satsuite.collegeboard.org/sat/whats-on-the-test/stru...

Interesting, thank you

That wouldn’t be blind.