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<p>Now that is very shallow; applying to a techie school like MIT and choosing Harvard over MIT seems like choosing Louis Vuitton just for the sake of brand.</p>
<p>For a serious Techie there is no comarison between MIT and Harvard. You can choose Princeton over MIT but Harvard. That is shallow.</p>
<p>But my son is NOT a techie. What or who gave you that idea? Not I, not anyone else on this board. It’s all in your imagination.
You need critical reading skills, my friend, before you accuse others of being shallow.
My S is in a major for which Princeton, Harvard and MIT and Chicago are all considered excellent. And at the graduate level, MIT has the clear edge in his subfield.</p>