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<p>Uhhh… you must be abnormally obsessed with prestige even by CC standards if you think it somehow takes “balls” to say that a course offered at some school was more rigorous or more difficult than the corresponding course at MIT.</p>
<p>Yes, MIT is MIT–it has a prestigious name. That obviously doesn’t mean that every course offered at MIT is the most difficult course in that subject in the country.</p>
<p>The difference in prestige between MIT and Rice will be irrelevant for graduate school admissions. As always, once you’re at a top school all that matters is what you do as an undergraduate.</p>