<p>How's Econ department and other social departments, especially sociology, at MIT like ?</p>
<p>From what I have seen on the website about faculty and staff, Econ should be great with professors having PhD from Harvard, Princeton, and MIT,...</p>
<p>Yes, econ should rock at MIT, especially with the Sloan School of Management and plus, economics is really math.</p>
<p>The economics department is stellar – generally considered to be one of the top departments in the country.</p>
<p>There is actually not a sociology department. You can see a list of humanities, arts, and social sciences departments at MIT [url=<a href=“http://web.mit.edu/shass/dspc/]here[/url”>http://web.mit.edu/shass/dspc/]here[/url</a>]; I’m not sure if the sociology topics would fall under the department of anthropology?</p>
<p>Yes, the latest US News and world report ranking place the Economics department as the single best in the country (tied with the Univ. of Chicago). The Political Science Department is tenth in the country. Linguistics is not a ranked category from US News, but it is also one of the best in the country. </p>
<p>MIT does not have a sociology department, but if you are looking to take the odd sociology course, MIT does offer cross-registration with Harvard, and Harvard’s program is top rate.</p>
<p>So you mean that I can take Sociology courses over at Harvard ?</p>
<p>This might be a stupid question but does Sloan have anything to do with Economics department ? I mean like do they have the same professor ? Is it reasonable if I say Sloan is a reason I want to go to MIT ( I guess some people will think it is a reasonable reason because Sloan is graduate school and I want to go to MIT for undergrad)</p>
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<p>Yes.</p>
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<p>They have some crosstalk, because business and economics are related disciplines, but they are different departments and in different schools. Sloan is the business school. Econ is in the School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences. I wouldn’t be surprised if there were some profs with joint appointments, but I don’t actually know, since I never took a class in either department.</p>
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<p>Yes, if you want to be a business major or minor.</p>
<p>We don’t have a sociology department (though we do have a minor). I’ve heard great things about our anthropology department though :D</p>
<p>Thanks guys.</p>
<p>What if I plan to major in Econ and say that Sloan is a reason I want to go to MIT ? I actually don’t know if I will major in business or not.</p>
<p>It might be my shallow knowledge about MIT, but do a lot of kids go to MIT not for engineering and natural sciences ? Most of the time, when I think about MIT, I just think about computer science, engineering, and other natural sciences. I have just found out about the prestige of social sciences departments at MIT.</p>
<p>What type of students will fit in MIT ?</p>
<p>It’s perfectly fine to major in economics and take courses in management. There is considerable overlap in faculty; Sloan faculty includes labor economists, behavioral economists, financial economists, etc. Optimization shares many analytical tools with microeconomic theory and econometrics. </p>
<p>Sloan also has a number of top-notch business-oriented economic sociologists (including the only PhD program in the country), social psychologists (who teach People & Organizations, or Negotiations, among other things), and anthropologists (and teach, for instance, leadership). MIT’s anthropology department has a number of sociologists, and you can easily cross-register at Harvard for classical sociological theory.</p>
<p>It has been said, but the Econ and Business programs at MIT are absolutely tops in the country. Although the econ department is tiny, its alums are monopolizing the econ world right now; the most recent Nobel Laureate (Paul Krugman), the head of the National Economic Council (Larry Summers), and the Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors (Ben Bernanke) are all MIT Econ alums. The undergrad business program is currently ranked #2 by US News.</p>
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<p>Not a lot, but some. I’ve definitely known people who came to MIT to study econ, comparative media studies, and political science. Quite a lot come to study business at Sloan. And let’s not forget the architecture majors - MIT has a well-known, top-notch architecture program!</p>
<p>A lot of the humanities/arts/social sciences majors that I’ve known, whether they came to MIT to study their subject or made that choice after matriculating, enjoy being at a school where the classes in their fields are very small and the professors value them. At many less tech-focused research institutions, many of these people, if they were studying the same field, would be in much more crowded departments.</p>
<p>And for the social science types, the strong quantitative background that they get from MIT tends to make them more attractive to grad schools and employers.</p>
<p>What types of students you think will fit in MIT ?? How are relationship between people ? Are people friendly ?</p>
<p>Can you guy chance me also ???</p>
<p>9th grade GPA: 8.0/10 (it’s considered A where I went to)</p>
<p>My GPA in sophomore year was 9.2/10</p>
<p>Junior year GPA: 4.0 (unweighted, my school does not have weighted GPA)
No ranking but I think I am in top 5%</p>
<p>Repeating junior year at Allendale Columbia. I don’t know if you have heard of my school or not, but it’s really rigorous here.</p>
<p>Score this year so far: AP Cal BC: B, AP Physics C:Mechanics: B-, Spanish 1: A+, English 11: A, Biology: A, Choir: A, Wind Ensemble: A.</p>
<p>AP Cal AB score: 4 (Too bad)</p>
<p>SAT is 2100. SAT II will be Math II: hope will be 700 at least and about 2 more, have not decided yet.</p>
<p>Extra curricular:
Soccer team of class: 6,7,8,9,10
Soccer Varsity:grade 11
AFCVN soccer club: grade 10
Baseball varsity: grade 11
Tennis JV ( varsity is super competitive, ranked 7th in the country): grade 11
Skiing club: grade 11
News translator for Arsenal Fan Club In Vietnam grade 8,9,10
Young leader club:grade 10
Singing club:grade:10
Choir:grade 11
CATCH program:grade 11
Piano class:8 years
French horn: 1 years
FIRST Robotics: grade 11
Community service club: grade 11
Community service trip to Costa Rica: grade 11 (Feb 2009)</p>
<p>Awards:
Best GPA at school : Grade 10
Best final exams record: Grade 10
First Prize at School’s English Olympiad: Grade 10
Victoria scholarship: grade 10
High honor roll: grade 11
Best Physical project in Science Fair:grade 11
Highest honor in Chemistry:grade 11
High honor in Maths:grade 11
Nominated for National Honor Society: grade 11
Nominated for National Young Leader Conference: grade 11</p>
<p>Leadership: Head of School’s Youth Union:Grade 10</p>
<p>ANy comments ??</p>
<p>Can someone leave some comments ??</p>
<p>Can anyone chance me ?</p>
<p>Also any comment on my question about MIT ?</p>
<p>I can’t really help you about chances/questions as I am a prospective student. I would say, though, that your ECs seem a little scattered. The only things that you appear really passionate about are soccer and piano(simply because you have played for so long and have multiple ECs about it). All your awards are great! Also, repeating jr. year? Was this due to changing schools? Will you complete high school in five years?
I have a few questions about business at MIT myself…
What school is the business major under at MIT? I haven’t really researched it, but I was looking at some rankings and MIT was on top for business. For some reason, I thought Sloan was undergrad, but I guess I’m wrong.
For people interested in getting a MBA, would majoring in Econ or Business be better?
Is MIT too techy? I always thought MIT was the school for really really really smart people who wanted to be engineers. I think this may have changed since I was younger, but I’m not sure. Does it still have this “techy” vibe?</p>
<p>It was due to changing schools, yes. </p>
<p>Any more comments ?</p>
<p>Yeah, I have the same wondering too. I have always been thinking MIT is the school for tech people. Is the main purpose of MIT originally for tech stuffs ?</p>
<p>Calm down. Stop being annoying. And don’t hijack someone else’s thread with your incessant “chance me” pleas.</p>
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<p>Actually, it is only the economics undergraduate program that is tiny. The graduate student body and the faculty are basically the same size as the other top economics programs.</p>
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<p>Dick Schmalensee holds a joint appointment, and in fact is the former Dean of the Sloan School while also on the faculty of the Economics department. </p>
<p>Lester Thurow is also a former Dean on the Sloan School as well as being on the faculty of the Economics department. </p>
<p>Other joint faculty would be Stephen Ross, and former Econ department head Paul Joskow. I’m sure there are others I’ve missed.</p>
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<p>I would actually argue that it would fall under the Sloan School, especially if we’re talking about the sociology of organizations, a.k.a. organizational behavior (OB).</p>