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<p>Where did you get this from? I am not sure it it true. Demographically, the US graduating population is SLIGHTLY higher in 2013 than in the next few years, but it isn’t a significant percentage (1-2% if I remember correctly), whereas the MIT applicant pool has shot up dramatically in the past few years out of all proportion to demographic trends. This is largely due to the increased outreach that the web affords. Next year’s applicant pool may indeed be down somewhat from this years pool, but I wouldn’t bet on it.</p>
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Admittedly it was a while ago now (just shy of 30 years), but MIT is still the only school to make the NY Times list of top ten workload schools, and Playboy’s list of the top ten party schools in the same year.</p>
<p>It depends on what you want to put into your religious studies. If you plan on taking half of your classes in this field, then you are probably not a good fit for MIT. There is cross-registration, which is easy to arrange but non-trivial for all that. For example, the Harvard and MIT exam schedules rarely line up, and you may be sitting exams during IAP. That isn’t to say that they do not work together. One of the guys in my living group at MIT graduated with his degree in Physics, and then went to a seminary.</p>