<p>Please help me out! I know I have like a 0.000000001 chance of being accepted to MIT, and that is why I need to look at other schools "similar" to MIT.
I am very interested in Biology and physics?</p>
<p>Thank you in advance!</p>
<p>Your title is confusing - Harvey Mudd and Cal Tech are both somewhat similar, but they certainly aren’t easy to get into.</p>
<p>bluepurple probably meant are there any schools near MIT, as far as sciences go.</p>
<p>In another thread, <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-search-selection/756978-best-science-engineering-schools.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-search-selection/756978-best-science-engineering-schools.html</a>, people were saying that as far as universities,
Stanford, Berkeley, WashU, Chicago, Hopkins, Cornell, Princeton, U Illinois, U Michigan, U Wisconsin, UT Austin, Duke, UC San Diego, University of Washington are amazing.</p>
<p>Thank you homersli, for bringing that threat about best sciences!! I completely forgot about it!!</p>
<p>You can also look into Carnegie Mellon if you’re interested in EECS</p>
<p>I never applied to or did much research in the school, but Georgia Tech is supposed to be a school lots of people who didn’t make it to MIT will go to.</p>
<p>don’t question your chances at getting into MIT yet! i thought i could never get in, but here i am, about to be a freshman there and feeling ridiculously lucky.</p>
<p>Ok. I WILL apply then. They only want five EC’s and a math SAT and a science one. I will take both plus retake the SAT and apply RD.</p>
<p>What sort of SAT II scores do most people have?</p>
<p>Here are the statistics for the class of 2013. Also, Google is your friend.</p>
<p>[MIT</a> Admissions: Admissions Statistics](<a href=“http://mitadmissions.org/topics/apply/admissions_statistics/index.shtml]MIT”>http://mitadmissions.org/topics/apply/admissions_statistics/index.shtml)</p>
<p>Thanks Star*</p>
<p>why not apply EA?</p>
<p>i dont have good SAT scores yet for EA. I dont think it makes any difference. If MIT wants me it would be because i have a very diverse background; compared to some applicants, i almost know nothing about sciences which is what i love!!</p>
<p>MIT is not really a school for pure sciences. It is an engineering school, where science is use practically. If you just want to learn the pure science, the Ivy Leagues are best at that.</p>
<p>^Actually, MIT has great programs in the pure sciences – biology, chemistry, physics, math, neuroscience, and EAPS at MIT are all top-notch programs.</p>
<p>^^ Which is why I’ll probably be applying to its math PhD program eventually…</p>
<p>At least in pure mathematics, MIT is definitely absolutely terrific, as I even know a PhD student who goes there; at that, someone who had several top notch programs to choose from. </p>
<p>That said, it may or may not be true that the undergraduate student population leans towards engineering and in general, more applied things. But some of the best engineering schools also happen to have some of the best math departments. MIT is one of them, UMichigan is another…at least for graduate school, both of these two look more attractive than quite a few Ivies, the only blindingly obvious exceptions being Harvard and Princeton, which are certainly terrific math schools.</p>
<p>As for other sciences, I am not knowledgeable.</p>
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<p>All math, science, and engineering programs that MIT has are ranked in the top 5. Often they are #1. For instance, MIT has the #1 physics department in the country.</p>
<p>Regardless, there is an air of practicality that permeates the atmosphere of the school.</p>