<p>I just got accepted to MIT, Harvard, Yale and Princeton and have no idea how to decide. I'm an international applicant and didn't visit any of those schools. I'm planning to major in one of the sciences and all of the schools have amazingly strong science deps. If I'd go to MIT though I would enter as a course 16 though, but I heard it's super hard. Are there any current course 16 students here? I would appreciate if someone could share his experience with me.</p>
<p>Also, I'm more of a nerd and don't really like to party, if that counts.</p>
<p>My husband was course 16, and I’m happy to relay questions to him to have him answer. He graduated in 2007, but he is currently involved with the department as an advisor to the senior capstone course and as an advisor to the design/build/fly competition team.</p>
<p>Course 16 is certainly hard, but it’s an incredible education. And the structure of the courses, especially Unified Engineering (which course 16 students take as sophomores), really contributes to a sense of departmental identity and unity. My husband was and is very close with his classmates.</p>
<p>And although course 16 is tough, there’s still time to have a life. Obviously my husband had time to meet a girlfriend (now wife :)), and although there were rough weeks when he would have to be doing psets or be in the lab until all hours of the night, we still had a social life. And he also had time to be a nationally-competing skiier, as well.</p>