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<li><p>mdx49 is a troll. If you look through his posts, you will see that all the points he offers on a continued basis have been refuted repeatedly by other posters such as sakky.</p></li>
<li><p>If those statistics are true (and I'm not sure where it would even be possible to get admit rates to those programs specifically), they are not true for undergraduate admissions.</p></li>
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<p>MIT offers an undergraduate minor in biomedical engineering, and a major in biological engineering. I am really unclear as to what the differences are between these fields, but it's likely not that important anyway; regardless of the name on your diploma, you can take plenty of BME or BE classes as an undergraduate at MIT.</p>
<p>Bill Gates dropped out of Harvard his junior year, most of his computer related research was done with MIT.</p>
<p>As far as sucess of MIT alumni, they haven't started any major companies unless you include Raytheon, TI, Cambells soup, HP, or Kodak, too bad none of those companies succeeded.</p>
<p>The biggest thing RPI will give you that Harvard wont is pleanty of undergrad research oppertunities.</p>
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1. mdx49 is a troll. If you look through his posts, you will see that all the points he offers on a continued basis have been refuted repeatedly by other posters such as sakky.
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<p>I'm still waiting for mdx49 to complete the task I laid out before him, which was to go out and vigorously decry Harvard for not producing as many Nobels as Cambridge, and how everybody at Harvard should instead be going to Cambridge.</p>
<p>But I'm not going to hold my breath waiting for him to complete that task. </p>
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Raytheon, TI, Cambells soup, HP, or Kodak, too bad none of those companies succeeded.
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<p>Ok, to be fair, I should say that Kodak was not started by a MIT grad. Neither George Eastman nor Henry Strong graduated from MIT.</p>
<p>A better example would be Intel. Robert Noyce did graduate from MIT.</p>