<p>Chose Duke over Stanford...but Stanford will always be my first love ;p
Here's hoping that I can get into Stanford for grad school</p>
<p>yeah...my friend chose UCLA over stanford and penn...but purely for money reasons</p>
<p>Ok sorry Uber, but you sound like a huge dork. Honestly, what kind of people do they let into universities these days? </p>
<p>And whoever chose MIT over Stanford and wants to get into the MBA program in Stanford after MIT?? HAHAHA. I know people that go to MIT and wow--that place DE-socializes you. Trust me. By the time you graduate you will be so disconnected with society and have lost all capabilities in formulating normal conversation, that you can't function in a business world--where everyone is intelligent and capable of socializing. My friend who visited MIT (and decided later to go to Harvard) said they have conversations about technology for "entertainment." The real society doesn't consist of people in MIT. Although they may be intelligent, they can't make it in the business world--that's for sure.</p>
<p>Anyway, this said-- GO CAL (and yes I got accepted to U Penn but chose Cal).</p>
<p>"And whoever chose MIT over Stanford and wants to get into the MBA program in Stanford after MIT?? HAHAHA. I know people that go to MIT and wow--that place DE-socializes you. Trust me. By the time you graduate you will be so disconnected with society and have lost all capabilities in formulating normal conversation, that you can't function in a business world--where everyone is intelligent and capable of socializing. My friend who visited MIT (and decided later to go to Harvard) said they have conversations about technology for "entertainment." The real society doesn't consist of people in MIT. Although they may be intelligent, they can't make it in the business world--that's for sure."</p>
<p>how ignorant. don't based your evaluation of MIT from an outsider's perspective. All of that is purely speculative. MIT's graduates are more than successful in business. More than 650 companies have been founded by MIT Sloan alumni. Here are some of the few:
-Former HP President and CEO Carly Fiorina
-Ford Chairman and CEO William Clay Ford
-Merck Executive Vice President-CFO Judy Lewent
-Former Chairman of Citicorp and current Chairman of the Board of the New York Stock Exchange John Shepard Reed
-E*Trade founder William A. Porter </p>
<p>I'm sure you would agree with me that these people are doing more than "making it" in the business world. I despise people people who bashed other colleges without any sufficient knowledge of the institution.</p>
<p>OK, so you named a few people--and yet you claimed 650. I want evidence. Also, you said Mit is more successful than others--you honestly believe MIT graduates are more successful than ivy league graduates or other prestigious unis' ?</p>
<p>Anyway, in summary--MIT students are social rejects.</p>
<p>Umm..., MIT and Stanford graduates will most likely do better than CAL graduates...</p>
<p>And sorry, I think you made a really stupid choosing Cal over Penn. Unless it was for a financial reason, umm... yea you are dumb</p>
<p>On another note, I will not be accepting Stanford's admission due to the fact that I was not offered admission =/ lol oh well</p>
<p>"Anyway, in summary--MIT students are social rejects."</p>
<p>you got into CAL and UPENN. I don't think you have the credibility to denounce a school like MIT. what are you? bitter? I'm not going to sit here and list 650 companies. But if you want evidences, go here. It is only common knowledge that MIT's entrepreneurial spirit runs through its students. </p>
<p><a href="http://mitsloan.mit.edu/about/index.php%5B/url%5D">http://mitsloan.mit.edu/about/index.php</a></p>
<p>"you honestly believe MIT graduates are more successful than ivy league graduates or other prestigious unis' ?"</p>
<p>are you saying that MIT isn't prestigious? You must be joking.</p>
<p>Sloan is 4th to HBS, Stanford, and Wharton.
"The Institute's programs in econometrics, macroeconomics and public finance also took No. 1 rankings, with programs in development economics, industrial organization, international economics and labor economics all ranking among the top five...Business school deans and MBA program directors ranked business specialty programs on academic quality and placement success, among other categories. MIT's Sloan School's programs in information systems, production/operations and supply chain/logistics were ranked No. 1."
Source: <a href="http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2005/usnews-0406.html%5B/url%5D">http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2005/usnews-0406.html</a></p>
<p>I am not accepting either...financial reasons.
<em>sigh</em>
<em>waves goodbye to california.</em></p>
<p>shosta - i believed he made the right choice. Penn isnt way better than Cal in any way. Cal is much much cheaper and will give you a similar caliber education. I know MANY people (hell, probably everyone in my math 54 class.. almost al engineers) gave up an ivy league or two to attend Cal.</p>
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<p>Well, what I'll say to that is that the average starting salary of Princeton bachelor's degree recipients in 2004 was $48,973, the average starting salary of MIT bachelor's degree recipients in 2004 was $56377, which is 15% higher than the Princeton grads did. Seems to me that the MIT grads are doing fairly well for themselves. </p>
<p>^ you are comparing apples and oranges.</p>
<p>sakky,</p>
<p>Princeton's grads can't be compared to MIT's because Princeton is multi-faceted and has way more majors.....including ones such as music, etc. Which well, without a graduate degree wouldn't bring much of a salary.</p>
<p>MIT is mainly science/math. </p>
<p>and what exactly is wrong with choosing Cal over Penn? Education is comparable, cheaper tuition........</p>
<p>Rankings aren't everything and you should not use rankings to decide for you what university to attend. In twenty years, will all of this stuff be really that important if you're still paying off school debt?</p>