<p>my sister asked me this, and it made me smile.</p>
<p>LOL. I think people who go to Caltech get this. Poor chaps.</p>
<p>Hahahahahaahhhahaahha</p>
<p>We actually get that at an amusing frequency. Many people in my hometown think I go to school in Michigan somewhere.</p>
<p>My boyfriend's freestyle skiing friends in particular have trouble distinguishing between MIT and ITT Tech ("Dude, Wang, I thought you were smart? Why you goin' to ITT Tech?").</p>
<p>Should've gone to Harvard, Yale, or Stanford; you wouldn't have that problem there (heh...). Maybe MIT should start doing commercials like ITT Tech does.</p>
<p>"My boyfriend's freestyle skiing friends in particular have trouble distinguishing between MIT and ITT Tech ("Dude, Wang, I thought you were smart? Why you goin' to ITT Tech?")."</p>
<p>These guys must be real idiots.</p>
<p>Pffft. Have you seen the commercials for NIT?</p>
<p>Just a typo away ;)</p>
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Well, they're not generally the brightest bulbs on the tree, I'll tell you that much... ;)</p>
<p>The people who matter recognize the MIT name. The people who really matter are extremely impressed by the MIT reputation.</p>
<p>almost no one at my school knew what MIT was till i said something. they also didn't know what SAT subject tests are till i said something.</p>
<p>Yeah, there's always this business of whether I should worry that the average joe on the street probably has no idea what Caltech is... but as mollie said, people who really matter (at grad schools, employers, etc.) realize what the top names are in a given field. Presumably it wouldn't make so much sense to decide on where to get one's education based on name recognition among a large and random class of people who are unlikely to have an influence on your success/happiness.</p>
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yep that'll make people respect mit more, by selling itself like an infommercial!</p>
<p>Look, the truth is, the only top schools that many regular people know about are Harvard, Yale, and (maybe) Princeton. A lot of regular people have never heard of Stanford, or if they have, they think it's just good at sports. And certainly plenty of people have never heard of MIT, Caltech, Berkeley, any of the lower Ivies, Duke (except that it's a basketball school), etc.</p>
<p>One reason we go to top schools like MIT is so that we don't have to deal with people who don't even know what MIT is.</p>
<p>I feel out of the loop. What's ITT Tech?</p>
<p>It changed a 30 year old redhead male named Scott's life. Before, he had no direction. He was from job to job. Then he found ITT tech. And now, he has an actual career. Not just a job.</p>
<p>I'm not actually sure what it is, but I believe it's a part time commuter technical school. The commercials don't make it look bad, actually. Well, they aren't supposed to, but you know. It's not MIT.</p>
<p>Wait, they're two different schools?</p>
<p>For ctgirl: ITT</a> Tech</p>
<p>I wish MIT had a name like Princeton Institute of Technology, so it could just be called Princeton or something like that, instead of the acronym that makes it seem like a two year school.</p>
<p>I would also be happyif MIT's unofficial nickname was MightyTech.</p>
<p>well for me its really surprising that people in US can be so ignorant as to not know about worlds best engineering school..When students and people round the globe (especially india) know what it is.</p>
<p>Yeah, our cheerleading coach made us get new cheerleading uniforms last year that said "TECH" instead of "MIT" because he thought MIT sounded like the acronym of a high school.</p>
<p>If you all like, we can go around on this board calling MIT "the Institute" and sounding extremely high and mighty. ;)</p>