MIT vs Hahvahd? Cambridge Rivals

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I think it helps that MIT is more centralized in general than Harvard is. :slight_smile: A postdoc in my lab asked me why Harvard has so many different biological sciences PhD programs administered through different schools, and I basically just ended up saying “That’s just the way it is.”</p>

<p>Am I correct in thinking that much of the premed advising at Harvard is done through the houses? That might explain the lack of a central data source.</p>

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<p>It is done through the houses, but I’m pretty sure OCS collects enough data that they could publish figures like that if they wanted to. IIRC, there is historical med school admit rate data at OCS in printed binders somewhere.</p>

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<p>I’m from Cambridge…Lived in Cambridge my whole life.</p>

<p>Go to MIT… vastly superior in every way shape or form. :D</p>

<p><a href=“http://web.mit.edu/career/www/preprof/2007top25.pdf[/url]”>http://web.mit.edu/career/www/preprof/2007top25.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>Pls don’t aim high at Harvard or Johns Hopkins med… It’s REALLY REALLY REALLY REALLY REALLY REALLY REALLY REALLY REALLY hard to get in… even for a Harvard student or an MIT student.</p>

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<p>^ I’m sure a lot of egos will be put back to ground level once students see what their PEERS are like/what they’ve been doing/ what they have accomplished. I’m not even on campus and I’m humbled</p>

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<p>The biology department of MIT is just simply too good to beat: 4 Nobel, 17 Howard Hughes investigators, 26 National academy members. Many of them publish quite routinely in top journals. I don’t see any biology department in the country coming close to that. To my knowledge, there is no Nobel in Harvard’s biological science departments, even considering its medical school and hospital programs. The strength of combined biological science programs including All Harvard programs (Harvard plus medical school, all affiliated hospitals and public health school) might be stronger than the biology department of MIT. But that would look like an unfair comparison. If you just compare the biology department of MIT versus MCB department of Harvard, the winner is just too obvious.</p>

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<p>“It is done through the houses, but I’m pretty sure OCS collects enough data that they could publish figures like that if they wanted to.”</p>

<p>Yes, I think that’s probably true. Pre-law advising happens through the houses, but all the data are tracked and compiled, and undergrads have access to them.</p>