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<p>Well, it’s not quite that bad. It’s not that MIT won’t offer any advising to students who don’t decide in the first two years. Rather, MIT just won’t guarantee that you will get advising if you decide late. Maybe you’ll get it, but maybe you won’t, on a space-available basis. </p>
<p>Like I said, I still find that problem to be preposterous, for this is not just any old scrub school we’re talking about here. *This is MIT. * I could possibly understand if some huge, low-ranked state school with little money and tens of thousands of undergrads might not be able to offer advising to everybody. MIT has only 4200 undergrads. MIT has the 6th largest endowment of any school in the US. Yet some MIT premeds can’t get advising? What is up with that?</p>