<p>^ TEAL, however, is not used past the introductory sequence (8.01 and 8.02), which all undergrads have to take. Therefore, there’s very little effect on actual physics majors.</p>
<p>Congrats on Stanford.</p>
<p>I was in the exact same situation as you last year, and there is a thread about that on CC, from last year, so you can use the search option.</p>
<p>BTW, I ended up choosing MIT.</p>
<p>That’s helpful. Thank you. How do you spend an average week at school, for those of you who attend?</p>
<p>[Search</a> Results: average week site:<a href=“http://www.mitadmissions.org%5B/url%5D”>www.mitadmissions.org](<a href=“Search Results | MIT - Massachusetts Institute of Technology”>Search Results | MIT - Massachusetts Institute of Technology)</a></p>
<p>The search feature is pretty awesome.</p>
<p>EDIT: I realized that my post may come off as a bit condescending and unhelpful, so I googled an additional useful term for you:
<a href=“Search Results | MIT - Massachusetts Institute of Technology”>Search Results | MIT - Massachusetts Institute of Technology;
<p>It sounds more like you want to brag about getting into stanford and not needing MIT’s acceptance. That’s a jerk thing to do, especially as there are a lot of people who are sad over stanford’s decisions right now, and you should be trying to be nice rather than brag. </p>
<p>That said,
You obviously prefer stanford to mit, as you applied SCEA to stanford. Why not go there and let someone who is dreaming of MIT go there? </p>
<p>Anyways, if you like Stanford weather, you’ll hate MIT weather.</p>
<p>And, I don’t think you’re attracting anyone who wants to help you with your entitled tone.</p>
<p>I didn’t mean to brag. I just asked what was on my mind. I even meant it to be a joke, but everyone took it very seriously. Failure, apparently. MIT is an amazing school. I just want to know what sets it apart, in the ways that stats/rankings/rumors/stereotypes/etc. can’t tell me.</p>
<p>seriously though. go to stanford. you obviously prefer it, and you haven’t gotten into MIT as of yet. Give your MIT spot to someone who really wants it. </p>
<p>and if you don’t phrase it as a joke, we won’t take it that way. and you had plenty of opportunities to explain it as a joke, but you continued to be a jerk about it. I think you’re just retreating to humor as an excuse. Stanford is full of people that are perfectly fine… their sciences are good (not like MIT, but still amazing), so why don’t you go there? MIT is for people who are fun and want to be there over anywhere else, and are willing to go through a hell of academic stress to do it. If you aren’t just salivating at the thought of going there right now, then just accept your stanford offer and get dibs on the good housing, and stop wasting our time. especially since you prefer stanford. if you had preferred MIT, you would’ve applied there EA.</p>
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<p>Why don’t you tell yourself?</p>
<p>To the OP:
If you are admitted to MIT EA, you are welcome to pm me. I have taught at Stanford, and I now have a daughter who’s a junior at MIT. I can give you several reasons to choose MIT over Stanford, if you are interested in majoring in science or engineering.</p>
<p>My feeling is that you shouldn’t try to decide on a school until you have all of your acceptances in hand. Both MIT and Stanford will have weekend events for admitted students in the spring, and attending those weekends will give you a better idea of where you’d fit in best than the internet will.</p>
<p>MIT and Stanford are great places, and a decision between them isn’t trivial (although luckily, you can’t really go wrong choosing one or the other). But there are very real differences in student life and culture between the two schools, so it’s useful to do some self-examination and decide what it is that you want in a college experience.</p>
<p>Generally speaking, though, the more specific your questions are about MIT, the more specific and helpful our responses will be able to be. It’s very tough to distill the MIT experience into a soundbite.</p>
<p>@ everybody else: Please ratchet down the irritated responses. I realize that some of you are stressed over finals, and others are stressed over EA decisions, but these factors are not going to go away over the next few days, and this is supposed to be a supportive, collegial place. Please don’t make me put on my nasty moderator hat and start editing or deleting unhelpful, catty responses.</p>
<p>If you got into Stanford, I assume it was for SCEA?
So wouldn’t you not get your MIT decision until March?
On the other hand, I congratulate you for your Stanford acceptance, I can only wish I had the luxury of picking which elite school I should go to. For as long as I can remember, I would be happy with getting into ANY of my dream schools, in this case the top school being MIT.
I guess college admissions is very different depending on how great of a student you are.</p>
<p>I just feel lucky to have gotten in anywhere. If I were to get into MIT, I would have a lot of specific questions, but I feel that the spring days on campus would be more than sufficient. A few questions, if you don’t mind:</p>
<p>How are those structured? Do you sit in on a lot of classes, meet a lot of current students/professors, get to see Boston?
Are you provided time just to wonder the campus? Can you work out in the facilities, for instance?
Do they provide the meals and accommodations for those students?</p>
<p>Thanks again for everything, and thanks to the moderator for having my back on this one. I didn’t mean to offend anyone, and I know a lot of you are anxious about finals/decisions, so my timing was probably off. Good luck to all of you.</p>
<p>I’m not sure if timing had anything to do with it - it sounded inflammatory.</p>
<p>Anyway, good luck with the decision. I recommend checking out student made videos of either campus, their parties, and classes if you have not visited them before. Such things are all over youtube.</p>
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MIT’s Campus Preview Weekend is very free-form – there are lots of events scheduled (student activities fairs, parties at different living groups, informational sessions about different academic programs, etc.), and you’ll get a schedule of classes, but nothing is required, and you’re free to wander around campus and do whatever strikes your fancy.</p>
<p>You’ll be matched with a current student who will serve as your host, and you’ll stay with your host in the place where he/she lives. You’ll be given about $20 to spend on food, but you probably won’t need it – there’s tons of free food during CPW.</p>
<p>I’ll tell you the main difference: MIT is a lot more challenging than Stanford. If you’re up for the challenge and immersing yourself in a sciency setting for four years, come here. MIT is very unlike other top schools in the unique student culture and heavy science/engineering emphasis, but it’s a lot of fun, and you’ll learn a million times more at MIT than you would at Stanford (unless you end up doing a lot of studying outside of classes).</p>
<p>I agree with Arch3r25. I am at MIT right now and had the option to go to Stanford. I know about 20 kids from my graduating class who are at Stanford right now.</p>
<p>MIT is harder than Stanford. In many ways, MIT is much harder than Stanford. </p>
<p>This is not to say that you will get a better education at MIT. I am miserable here and am looking forward to going home and figuring out how I will get through this school. It is insanely tough and will challenge you more than any other school you choose. If you are looking for this kind of challenge, and you will not be bitter with having made the decision to face this challenge during those times you are slaving away at your classes and still failing, MIT will probably change you more than Stanford. </p>
<p>But in my opinion, MIT has an equal chance of changing you for the better or for the worse. The disparity is not quite so probable at Stanford.</p>
<p>Yeah, CPW is completely free form. The entire campus throws several hundred events over the weekend. You will get a very good picture of the social life. You can go to as many events as possible, or none of them.</p>
<p>However, if you want to really get what it is like to be an MIT student on a typical day, ask your host (not the admissions office) if you can come a day early to MIT or do an overnight visit some other time.</p>
<p>I feel that academically they are very similar. If you have a certain program or department or professor that you love that will play a role. For me, I am very happy to be part of the Media Lab. I’ve never been to Stanford, so I will not compare them.</p>
<p>I am a MIT freshman (did not apply to Stanford) and am super happy I chose MIT. I just wrote a blog entry about my first semester: [Old</a> Updates - ThePlaz.com](<a href=“Personal Updates - ThePlaz.com”>Personal Updates - ThePlaz.com)</p>
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Wow, this sounds incredibly fun! :D</p>