<p>hi all
I guess there are many people who doesn't agree with the title.:)
anyway,what do any student need to move to the MIT??simply.
does it matter if you attended normal school and wanna apply to the MIT??
the acceptance rate in the MIT is 9%!!! why it's so low??
I think that the MIT,Georgia Tech,California Institute of Technology are much better than the Ivy league universities,don't you think so??</p>
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<p>MIT and Stanford are the two best engineering schools in the country; of that, there is little doubt. Berkeley, Caltech, Gatech are only slightly worse.
The admission requirements vary based on a lot of things. Check on MIT’s website.
The acceptance rate is so low because they get way more applicants than they can admit. They therefore can choose who they want out of the giant pool of applicants.</p>
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I would start with a truly exemplary record of academic performance and test scores, combined with a scientific/technical enthusiasm reflected in extra-curricular activities. After that? Ask them!</p>
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What do you mean by “normal school”? Most MIT undergrads come from regular high schools, and most MIT grad students come from good-to-exceptional universities. Remember that MIT does not accept transfers in the middle of a degree program.</p>
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The actual Ivy League is composed of powerhouses in the arts and humanities, with the notable exceptions of Columbia and Cornell, and even those two schools cannot crack the top-5 of elite technical schools in the US. Simply put, no school is great at everything - Harvard is great at a lot of things, MIT is better at some.</p>
<p>Princeton is pretty far up there in certain fields of engineering as well. Aside from Princeton, Cornell and Columbia, though, the Ivies are not known for engineering and, in fact, are largely kind of subpar for engineering. Most have great physics departments, however.</p>
<p>Harvard doesn’t have the most prestigious engineering school, but if you aren’t majoring in engineering – and most people aren’t – then it’s about as persuasive to its applicants as MIT’s weakness in theater or Berkeley’s lack of a clown college would be to us. </p>
<p>Personally, I would love to do a physics or history degree or something at Harvard, I’m just too chicken.</p>
<p>I have several friends and coworkers who are MIT grads. It’s a fine school, but it doesn’t live up to the ridiculous hype. MIT students are mere mortals, just like you and me. I had to carry my friend (an MIT alum) through my CS grad course last quarter because he had basically given up and stopped contributing to our HW assignments.</p>
<p>FYI, you will do well in any of the top 50 engineering schools for undergrads. If you want to continue your education, try to go to the best graduate school you can.</p>
<p>@Mokonon:
do you mean that the grad school is more important than undergrad??
because I have been told that it doesn’t matter where you do your undergraduate study.
just make sure that the school is accredited,do you think so??</p>
<p>That is pretty much true, but in the long term, school doesn’t really matter at all unless you go into academia.
The thing is, while MIT is a very good school, the true source of their good reputation is that they can choose candidates that will have the greatest chance of actually doing something impressive, regardless of whether they would go to MIT or not, and adding an MIT label to them. All else held equal, two equal students will do equally well if one goes to a top 2 school and the other to an average school. The path may be easier for the MIT grad, but the talented can always find a way.</p>