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<p>Are there not a lot of different kinds of people who go to any given competitive university? I sometimes wonder how distinct this ‘match’ is from just being great at what you do, with some good vision of what to do in the future with it. </p>
<p>The only explicit point on which I have heard MITChris distinguish between top schools is that he has said for those interested in top financial engineering undergrad programs, MIT is not the place (while it is strong in a lot of things related, the attitude of wanting to go into finance straight up may not be fit).</p>
<p>Forgive me if I misrepresented anything.</p>