MIT or Caltech for graduate studies

Colleges and Universities A-Z California Institute of Technology
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<p>Hello :)</p>

<pre><code> I'm currently studying my bachelors in electrical and control engineering in Europe. But I'm an Asian student. I need to do my graduate or (if not possibility for graduate) post graduate studies at MIT or Caltech. I'm having almost 10 for most of my courses here, and few 9s out of 10. I'm doing some researches with my professors too. I have already gotten great recommendations letters from 2 professors who've worked in US universities too(I'll get few more too in the comming year). It simply states that I'm one of the best, and intelligent and hard working student who's highly inclined into research and a self motivated student. I have created my own robots (I'm still a second year student) and developing them, we are not taught robotics in our course.
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<p>Well, I will study Robotics, and electronics and cybernetics. I will be a scientist with lots of interest into reserach. No interest for jobs, or even teaching. I'm an asocial person too. I feel comfortable with few people around me and being alone. It's a breif description about myself.</p>

<pre><code>My first two choices are Caltech and MIT. I'd like to know with my above described qualifications and my personality, what's the probability for me to get accepted for graduate or post graduate studies in one of these 2 institutes? and Soppose if i got accepted for both, then which one would be better for me? I mean the best one that suits me ?
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<p>thanks :)</p>

<p>ps: I'm not into industrial arena. I'd like to hear your advices too :))</p>

<p>pps : I have posted this thread in MIT forum as well.</p>

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<p>If you’re interested in robotics, electronics, and cybernetics why aren’t you looking at schools like Stanford and Carnegie Mellon?</p>

<p>Anyway, you should go for whichever school has professors doing work you find more interesting. Above a certain level the name of the schools is pretty irrelevant and what matters most is who you’re working with and what you accomplish with them.</p>

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<p>More than anything else you should work on changing this. Research pretty much always requires working with other people, and even when you work on your own, you need to be able to effectively communicate with others for your research to actually be cared about by other people.</p>