<p>Not alot of people would simply think and google just that in my experience.
P.S. what with this back-n-forth lol?</p>
<p>Lol sorry, it’s just weird to me that some people haven’t heard of MIT.</p>
<p>I can probably asks around my school but hardly anyone would know. I’m afraid your assumptions are proven false.</p>
<p>I want to study Meteorology (1st choice) or Computer Science/Comunications (2nd,3rd choices)</p>
<p>Florida State
Purdue
University of Oklahoma</p>
<p>I might possibly add Cornell or MIT to that list, but not likely. Not big on the Ivies/“top” schools. (only because I have friends who go there, not because I couldn’t go)</p>
<p>Descuff, you are mistaken. MIT is one of the best-known colleges in the nation and the world. It is renowned for its excellence in engineering and anything related to math and science. If you haven’t heard of it, you are simply ignorant.</p>
<p>“According to Times Higher Education’s first-ever World Reputation Rankings, Harvard, MIT and the University of Cambridge are the most globally well-regarded universities.”–Huffington Post article named “The World’s Most Prestigious Universities”</p>
<p>How would I in my college search be considered ignorant simply because it never crossed my mind out of more than 1000s of colleges?</p>
<p>Ignorance is not necessarily a pejorative term. It just means that you are unaware of something. If you have sufficiently researched colleges, the probability that you (an engineering major, no less!) have not encountered MIT is infinitesimal. Hence, you are ignorant of a well-known fact: that MIT is a fantastic and widely-recognized engineering school.</p>
<p>You probably didn’t come across it because you have no shot at getting into MIT. That’s not an insult, many people don’t have a shot in hell at MIT. Here are some stats:</p>
<p>[World’s</a> Best Universities; Top 400 Universities in the World | US News](<a href=“http://www.usnews.com/education/worlds-best-universities-rankings/top-400-universities-in-the-world]World’s”>http://www.usnews.com/education/worlds-best-universities-rankings/top-400-universities-in-the-world) - #3 in the world</p>
<p>[Top</a> 100 Universities in the World: Best Colleges](<a href=“http://www.ulinks.com/topuniversities.htm]Top”>Top 100 Universities in the World: Best Colleges) - #5 in the world</p>
<p>[National</a> University Rankings | Top National Universities | US News Best Colleges](<a href=“http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-colleges/rankings/national-universities]National”>http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-colleges/rankings/national-universities) - #5 in the U.S</p>
<p>[America’s</a> Best Colleges - Forbes.com](<a href=“Forbes List Directory”>Forbes List Directory) - #5 in the U.S</p>
<p>What did you do for your college search, drive to every campus within 20 miles of your house? Then, and only then, could I understand you never having heard of MIT.</p>
<p>I mean on the internet lmao. So is it Ivy league???</p>
<p>No, because that is an athletic conference. MIT is arguably more prestigious than every Ivy League school with the exception of Harvard (and possibly Yale).</p>
<p>4,384 total undergrads??? Right now I’m repulse (no offense to anyone it my stupid personality) at the student body size. Aside from that, it extreme pricey and very selective. I hardly doubt I stand a chance.</p>
<p>This is old but yes lesleycordero, i got the reference! :P</p>
<p>Studios is right, MIT is right up there with the top of the top Ivy’s (and other amazing schools around the country).</p>
<p>[College</a> Rankings :: Prestige](<a href=“http://www.myplan.com/education/colleges/college_rankings_8.php]College”>College Rankings :: Prestige) - MIT is the 3rd most prestigious school in the country. </p>
<p>[Harvard</a> Tops MIT for a Second Year in University Rankings - Businessweek](<a href=“Bloomberg - Are you a robot?”>Bloomberg - Are you a robot?) - MIT is the 2nd most prestigious school in the world.</p>
<p>Face it Descuff, you royally screwed up your college search if you didn’t hear of MIT until now. Name recognition is a very large amount what makes up prestige. I find it very surprising that experts have ranked MIT 2nd and 3rd in the world in prestige (and thus name recognition) but you’ve still never heard of it…</p>
<p>I wanna go NYU Stern all the way! Ima apply ED next year and I pray to the gods of college admission that I get in. I don’t know what I’d do if I got rejected/deferred/waitlised.</p>
<p>That probably just it. I never dared to research the top colleges (don’t have the GPA for them), but may I asks how did you find out about MIT? I never see it on the news… Or is it because it is simply a private school, that many information about it is not revealed?</p>
<p>How have you never seen it on the news? It seems like every other day, a new team of MIT researches discovers something new or innovative. Also, haven’t top students at your school ever spoken of applying there? One hears about MIT just like they hear about other prestigious schools. It’s interesting that you’ve heard of Harvard, Purdue, and Cornell, but not MIT.</p>
<p>Well, when I was about 6 was very interested in how my Gameboy worked. I turned it on almost every morning at 6 to play Pokemon before school. I was fascinated by the glowing screen and how I could change the fate of Ash Ketchum simply by pressing several different buttons. In order to learn more about the magical device I so often held in my hands I watched NBC nightly news with my parents every night at 6:30 just incase there would be a segment about my miraculous Gameboy. After months and months of nothing, and almost giving up on my dream of learning more, I saw a short segment on the Gameboy advanced, which was being developed by graduate students from MIT. After the segment finished my fascination was reinvigorated. I knew I had to find my way to MIT one way or another to learn about the brand new gameboy advanced.</p>
<p>For the next two years I saved up the money I got from every birthday or holiday until I had $200. Fortunately I only lived about 4 hours away from Cambridge, Mass, where MIT is located. One spring morning my parents went out of state with my sister to a soccer tournament, so I had the whole day to myself. It was the perfect time to realize my dream of reaching MIT. I kept taking buses further North until I reached the mass/CT border, then Boston, and finally Cambridge. As soon as I stepped on campus I was amazed with how smart the students looked, so I followed them into Annenberg, the famous dining hall. No one questioned the presence of an unattended 8 year old until I wandered into a bathroom where a security guard, who was also using the facilities, questioned the whereabouts of my guardians. I told him they were waiting outside, but the guard followed behind me and figured out the truth, my parents were not with me. He lead me to the security station to contact my parents and take me home. On the way there I noticed that the man’s shirt had a “Harvard Security” logo on it. I asked him, “Sir, is Harvard a department within MIT?”, and he replied that MIT is a 15 minute walk away - we were at Harvard. That’s right, my whole dream of MIT was crushed right then and there. I was devastated, and when my dad came to pick me up I started bawling because I didn’t see MIT. Despite my naughty actions that day he had some sympathy for me, so we drove through MIT before we went home. I only glimpsed the campus, but I realized that all the students were nerds, and I didn’t want to go to MIT anymore.</p>
<p>Three words: Cool Story, Bro… </p>
<p>@StudiousMaximus: What news are you watching and for how long? And also most of the top students never even mentions MIT.</p>
<p>Holy crap guys just let this go! MIT is a great school. Who cares if Descuff hasn’t heard of it? he admitted himself he doesn’t even plan on applying there so it’s probably not important that he knows it. This is honestly going nowhere…</p>
<p>Lol we’re still on this?</p>
<p>I didn’t make this thread to argue )=</p>