<p>cellardweller, in the video "[MIT</a> TechTV - Behind the Scenes of Admissions at MIT](<a href="http://techtv.mit.edu/genres/28-life-at-mit/videos/1502-behind-the-scenes-of-admissions-at-mit]MIT">http://techtv.mit.edu/genres/28-life-at-mit/videos/1502-behind-the-scenes-of-admissions-at-mit)", at the 18 minute mark, Stu Schmill lists the 4 top competitor schools in 2006 as Harvard, Princeton, Yale and Stanford while pointing out that this list has changed from 1959 (RPI, Harvard, Cornell, Caltech) by moving away from overlapping the most with tech-centric schools.</p>
<p>As I doubt this data has changed significantly in the past 4 years, I’m not sure what your rationale for contradicting my claim is. College Confidential is not a representative sample, and the fact that not many people voluntarily respond to a single thread does not indicate that not many of these high quality cross-admits exist.</p>
<p>And once again, I have already made it clear that MIT admissions is not a perfect (or even necessarily good) predictor of admissions at HYPS. However, it’s absolutely ridiculous to state that MIT admissions are completely independent of HYPS admissions. You are effectively claiming that MIT looks at virtually zero of the same factors as HYPS. I believe it’s more reasonable to assert that MIT admits will do better at HYPS admissions than non-admits.</p>