<p>Hey guys, I was accepted into SEAS as a C P Davis Scholar and well as the title says, MIT too.</p>
<p>Now, the thing that's throwing my judgment is that while I want the engineering degree, training, discipline and what have you, I have no desire to be an engineer. For my future, I'd like to be in either business or law.</p>
<p>I think that MIT has a bigger name and a snazzier class ring, but Columbia has many more opportunities and probably even more because of my status as a Scholar.</p>
<p>If you guys could leave some more pros and cons, I'd greatly appreciate it. I'll take anecdotes too.</p>
<p>MIT for engineering is unbeatable. It has lots of ring when applying to law and B school, but so does columbia. One of my brothers went to MIT for undergrad and he LOVED IT. He always reminisces about his experience. I would suggest MIT for undergrad and Columbia for your MBA or JD. </p>
<p>PM me if you have any questions. I know a few people that went to Columbia B school as well.</p>
<p>then do not go to MIT, it will slaughter you, you need to be very passionate about the subject material as well as very smart to do well there. you’ll burn out after a few semesters, because you’ll realize that everything you’re studying is useless. There is much more balance at columbia both interms of classes you take and in terms of the people around you. </p>
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<p>this is a stupid argument used on college confidential. S/he hasn’t got into the columbia MBA or JD program, so that’s not the decision to be made. S/he could just as easily do columbia undergrad and then columbia law or MBA. MIT does not give you an edge over Columbia for business, finance or law. It might well be the other way round. </p>
<p>In terms of dealing with the sorts of people you’ll encounter in a job as a lawyer, banking analyst or business man, Columbia is better prep. If you were sure about engineering, then MIT is probably the better choice, since you are nearly sure about the opposite, don’t put yourself through MIT.</p>
<p>Still, for business or law, MIT is not seen more highly than Columbia, because it doesn’t give you actual better preparation. Columbia takes in a lot of ridiculously smart kids, inside or outside US doesn’t really change the arguments. If you want to go into business or law I can’t fathom why you would want to go to MIT. And you better enjoy math and science if you’re coming to seas, there’s a lot of it. For most (but not all) majors dedication and passion in the discipline is a pre-requisite. At MIT engineering it is a pre-requisite for all majors. People work harder because they know that what they are doing correlates very highly to what they’ll be doing as a career. At Columbia half the engineers go into other fields, half still go into engineering (and google, nasa, apple etc.)</p>