<p>You make a lot of sense sakky - thanks! You were saying there's a rule against "inbreeding" for MIT ChemE B.S. students to get into the MIT ChemE grad program. What about ChemE B.S. students getting into MIT's BE grad program? Sorry for all these questions!</p>
<p>The rule is most likely less strong when you're talking about moving to a different department. However, if you ended up taking lots of BioE coursework as an undergrad, and if the BioE department doesn't like inbreeding (I don't know what the MIT BioE policy is on this), then just because you majored in ChemE is not going to save you. They are going to see all that BioE coursework on your transcript and then rule accordingly. </p>
<p>Like I said, different departments at MIT have different rules. EECS does one thing. ChemE does another. </p>
<p>Personally, I doubt that the no-inbreding rule should cause anybody too much stress. For example, if you do your undergrad in ChemE at MIT and you do well enough to have gotten into the graduate ChemE program at MIT had there been no inbreeding rule, then you're surely good enough to get into another elite ChemE program elsewhere, like Berkeley, Caltech, or Minnesota. Having to go to one of those places to do your grad ChemE work is not the worst thing in the world, you know. On the other hand, if you're not good enough to get into an elite chemE grad program, then it's all a moot point because the no-inbreeding rule won't affect you anyway. There is nothing that says that you have to stay at MIT in order to get a good graduate engineering education. I strongly oppose entering an entirely different grad-school engineering discipline that you don't want to enter just because you want to stay at MIT. If you want to change disciplines, it should be because you actually want to change disciplines, not just because you want to stay at the same school.</p>