<p>How are MIT Athletics? There is a stigma about it that I want to clear up. When I visited they had a massive sports facility and I was a little bit confused. </p>
<p>If anyone has information about MIT Soccer in particular, that would be very nice.</p>
<p>MIT is alright, as far as I know. I’m a swimmer, and I can’t say that their times are stellar, as they are in D3. I think that with their 9.9B endowment (from Wiki), they can just afford extremely nice things :p. Also, MIT’s athletic facilities are used for the public as well, so it isn’t like its just for the team.</p>
<p>MIT is D3 except for rowing I think…
and there have been threads here about the “recruiting” at MIT,
there might be some on the MIT board as well.
Use the search tool for more info,</p>
<p>I was speaking to an MIT coach for awhile about recruitment. The admissions department there doesn’t allow the MIT coaches to select particular athletes that they want like in the Ivy league, instead they support about twice the amount of athletes they need and the admissions board selects which and how many to let in from the ones the coaches supported. This makes for sub par athletic teams due to most strong recruits wanting the sure bet and taking their skills to other teams who will guarantee them admission. I know an athlete who is currently competing at MIT and got recruited the way I described above and he isn’t very serious about his sport and more or less just used it to help him with admissions. I think that he is a common case for MIT athletics. So if going to MIT is more important to you then the sport you are playing then I would say go for it but if you want a solid team who cares about the sport then I would look elsewhere.</p>
<p>They have tons of sports…I was shocked (fencing?). How do they fill these teams?</p>
<p>MIT typically finishes near the top among all D-3 schools in the Director’s Cup, which awards points based on how a team finishes nationally in each sport. MIT currently is in the Sweet 16 NCAA Basketball D-3 Championship. Check out this link to see how that’s playing on campus: [MIT</a> Basketball Dances Into History | WBUR](<a href=“http://www.wbur.org/2012/03/09/mit-basketball]MIT”>MIT Basketball Dances Into History | WBUR News)
It’s not the SEC, but there are national class athletes in many sports and lots of all-county and all-state types in most of the others.
@Footballdad-fencing isn’t so weird–there are a few dozen other schools that field fencing teams, too. Even more that have club teams. You won’t see them on SportsCenter, but you will see most of them atop the US News & World Report College Rankings.</p>
<p>MIT has been slowly morphing into an Ivy like science oriented university from a Tech School over the past decade. They have always had a lot of athletics but they are taking it up a notch. The facilities are good to great (pool is great). </p>
<p>Compare MIT with Cal Tech in which I believe its basketball team has the longest losing streak in NCAA history and has more valedictorians than high school lettermen on its team.</p>
<p>Swimming is ranked 4 in Div 3 ahead of both Williams and Amherst (also great schools and swim programs). The head coach is awesome and the facility is superb.</p>
<p>from what i’ve heard through kids and coaches, earlier post is correct. a coach will express interest and, if kid meets academic standard, it could have weight but there are no tips or likely letters as in nescac and ivies. as far as i know, being a great athlete is akin to any other special talent/skill but not a sure path at MIT. best way to know for sure is to have a frank discussion with the specific coach for your sport. i am sure they will let you know how their process works. my sons found all coaches to be very forthright when they went through process. you should also try to reach out to the current players.</p>
<p>Fwiw, MIT beat Franklin & Marshall over the weekend to progress to the NCAA Men’s Basketball D-3 Final Four. Quite an accomplishment considering the limited pull the coach has getting his recruits in. That sound you just heard is a few hundred engineers jumping on the bandwagon up in Cambridge.</p>
<p>Just got back from an MIT unofficial tour with my son who’s interested in playing men’s volleyball. Had a meeting with the coach for about 20 minutes and then watched an hour of the men’s practice and talked to some of the players. </p>
<p>As far as recruiting for volleyball, MIT is not recruiting like the Ivy’s or sports heavy D1 schools. Coaches have to first make sure that all their potential recruits have the academic prowess to be able to handle the MIT course load. No use in recruiting a player that gets washed out after freshman year. If you weren’t already aware, MIT has very rigorous mandatory courses that everyone must take regardless of your major. And you can’t place out of any of these regardless of how well you do on your AP exams. </p>
<p>The coach was very frank in saying that part of MIT’s athletic success was due to MIT’s academic reputation. He has extremely smart kids who are extremely athletic give up playing on Division I teams because they want to get their education at MIT. He can red flag an application which means that he indicates to the application committee that he’s interested in having this player play on the team so they should take a really good look at it. He was very forthcoming in saying that there is no guarantee though. </p>
<p>I think the biggest difference between playing for a DI and DIII school is that at a DI school, your college experience is defined by the sport you play. At a DIII school, academics are first and sports are second. A lot of people don’t know that MIT students are very athletic. 75% of their students participate in a varsity level sport! And MIT boasts to have the most varsity sports available to their students. All of their sports are DIII except for rowing and fencing which are DI.</p>
<p>It sounds like MIT has a lot to offer, and you got some very valuable insights; however, there were a few inaccuracies: It’s 75% of students who compete in intramural sports.</p>
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<p>Fencing is Div III as well. Somewhat irrelevant as all three Divisions fence each other.</p>
<p>Huh. I swear that the speaker at the information session as well as the guided campus tour said that fencing and rowing were at a DI level. But upon closer inspection of the 2011-12 Quick Facts brochure that we picked up at their athletic facility, it says that “although crew is the only classified Division I program, cross country, fencing, rifle, sailing, squash, track and field, men’s volleyball, and water polo all compete against DI opponents.” That’s not the same as saying the your fencing team is DI. Looks like there’s a little exaggeration going on.</p>
<p>Here’s the link to the NCAA site for MIT:
[Massachusetts</a> Institute of Technology - NCAA.com](<a href=“http://www.ncaa.com/schools/mit]Massachusetts”>http://www.ncaa.com/schools/mit)</p>
<p>only women’s rowing is D1.</p>