<p>What made you choose MIT over other great engineering/physical science schools like Stanford, Harvard, Caltech and Princeton? I saw a post like this in Stanford and thought it would a post like this would be perfect for MIT. So, tell me. What made you choose MIT? Tell me why MIT is the best college.</p>
<p>*My intended major is aerospace/aeronautical engineering and physics.</p>
<p>I chose MIT because when I visited after my acceptance, MIT was the place that felt most like home. The students I met were friendly and smart, and they made me feel so comfortable. I felt more like me on my visit to MIT than I did anywhere else.</p>
<p>As for aerospace engineering, my husband was course 16, and it’s a really great department. It’s tough, for sure, and the classes will put you through the wringer, but there’s a great sense of camaraderie between the members of a class. My husband had a research position within a few weeks of arriving on campus, and he continues to be close with several of his professors and mentors.</p>
<p>I chose MIT because the first day I went to the website, the front page had a wacky toy that it turned out was part of a toy product design class. Then, as I delved into the blogs, I found out about hacking culture. I fell in love with MIT’s quirks. </p>
<p>I stayed for the people.</p>
<p>I remember hating the fact that it was a prestigious school, because I wasn’t sure if I’d be able to get in. I didn’t look at the other schools on your list because… I wasn’t looking for a prestigious school. (It’s possible that Caltech would’ve had a culture I liked, but it was also 20 minutes from my house, and I wanted a little more distance than that. I love my family, but I felt college was a good time to learn to be an adult, and I couldn’t do that coming home every weekend to do my laundry!)</p>
<p>Yay! I also blogged about this, a while ago. I should blog more: [Why</a> I Chose MIT | MIT Admissions](<a href=“http://mitadmissions.org/blogs/entry/why-i-chose-mit]Why”>Why I Chose MIT | MIT Admissions)</p>
<p>I chose MIT when I was 12. My dad had a subscription to Popular Science and I read the magazines when they came in the mail. I noticed that almost every other article mentioned some place called MIT. I didn’t know what MIT was but I knew that amazing things happened there. I Googled it and found the admissions blogs. I read the blogs every day; they were my homepage for five years until I applied.</p>
<p>When I got in I was already at another school, Penn State, as an early enrollment student. I was in a very comfortable situation at Penn State: I had more than a full ride, I had a position in a lab, I lived with my parents, I was surrounded by some of the same faces I was used to seeing from high school. (My high school funnels most of its students into Penn State’s main campus.) But I didn’t have many friends, I didn’t feel motivated by my classes, and I felt socially stifled from being one to three years younger than everyone around me. I wanted to grow and learn about myself in college, and I thought MIT was a place that could shape me into the kind of person I wanted to be. (And it has, I think.) And that’s how I wound up here.</p>