<p>I applied there EA just to see if i got a chance... that's all.... I mean i won't feel terrible if i got rejected....</p>
<p>Hm. This makes me wonder. Do people who apply to say, Harvard, say the same things? My reason is exactly what LSA and others have said, but to what, if any, non-tech schools would it apply?</p>
<p>People apply to MIT solely for the prestige too. Don't delude yourselves. I did the same thing last year as a safety for Stanford and Harvard.</p>
<p>I don't know what other schools. Maybe Duke.
Like so many before me have said: you gotta love the atmosphere of the place.</p>
<p>i had originally thought of MIT but i decided to apply ED to Princeton. MIT is the world's top engineering school, but it was precisely the workload that scared me away. Princeton, on the other hand, has a huge emphasis on undergrads (lacking undergraduate colleges) and offers financial aid only in the form of grants.</p>
<p>Academically, Princeton and MIT are comparable - unless you're into engineering and/or business, then MIT has the edge. However, atmospherically, MIT and Princeton really have VERY little in common. What could have attracted you to both of them? They're such fundamentally different schools - student body (oh my god), surroundings, campus style/size, emphasis, administration, style of education, etc etc.</p>
<p>Pebbles - can u be more specific? What is the main difference btw these campus enviroments?</p>
<p>Princeton is more elitist, prouder, and prolly more "bubbleized" (for lack of a better word--conservative may have worked) than MIT. on the other hand, MIT has a more diverse student body and is very techie and liberal. both have their distinct advantages/disadvantages and both have an amazingly intelligent group of students. honestly, Princeton prolly attracted me more b/c of higher name recognition...i prefer to meet a future president than the next great inventor. it sound kind of silly when you say it like that...but hey! MIT has the best engineering graduate program also and, since i am contemplating pursuing post-bachelor degrees, it seems a stronger candidate for masters/doctoral degree.</p>
<p>SO, is it better to go MIT all the way through (undergrad + grad) or go MIT undergrad, elsewhere else for grad, or somewhere else undergrad, and MIT grad?</p>
<p>cuz its mit???</p>
<p>I think people at MIT would be more likely to be President some day because they just HAVE to fix things. </p>
<p>AND RIGHT NOW THINGS IS DONE BROKE!</p>
<p>/editorial</p>
<p>....Literally..... So, what we gonna do 'bout it?
(hopefully someone will have fixed it by the time we're eleigible to run. fifteen-plus years is a long time for things to be broke.)</p>
<p>hey guys, this is my friend princetonwannabe. he's pretty neutral.</p>
<p>ere-ppl dont usually go through one school for all their degrees. employers, i understand, like to see that you have gotten a wide range of perspectives.</p>
<p>Valdez basically hit on the main points of the student body difference and differences in atmosphere. Princeton's campus is immaculate. It looks like it just came straight out of plastic wrap it is so perfectly, perfectly, beautiful. I couldnt' stop staring around when I visited, it was really like stepping into castle grounds. But the whole school had this... pristinely untouchable feel to it, and so did most of its students. I felt short without actually being shorter simply because of the general pomp radiated. Of course, props to these kids for getting into one of the best schools in the country, but they're a little too upper-middle class popped-collar for my taste. People were riding around on golf carts. Oh, and I was yelled at for bringing a cookie and a bottle of water into one of the buildings... </p>
<p>Combined with what you know about MIT, you'll know that these schools are about AS opposite as they come, except in us news rankings.</p>
<p>lol psquared you think people at MIT don't have fun?</p>
<p>haha</p>
<p>MIT has its upsides, but it seems like all of you could be amazing at a state university, and i mean amazing, get great grades, perfect for grad school, and even though you will be busy excelling at that state university, you will also have times to see the other plus sides of college, the social scene, instead of 12 hour study days, also all of you may be the best at your school now and work is really easy, but once you get to MIT you could very well be the bottom of the class and those once fun Calc problems become torture b/c even you, your high schools best student, doesn't understand what is going on, with that said, if i knew i could get into MIT, i wouldn't go, maybe for grad school, but i know i could be just as great at a state university which would prepare me for grad school, and while being great, get the full college experience, im surprised none of you think you will be missing out on anything</p>
<p>As shocking as it may seem, I plan to attend college for the sole purpose of learning. Not just textbook learning that will get you high test scores, but a pervasive, penetrating education. I want to be shocked, be confused, be frustrated, it's all a part of the process; I want to listen to lectures so good they give me chills. I want to sit next to people whom I will never be able to match in talent or intellect, simply because they make me reach. And one of these days I'll turn out to be, by my standards, worth something. </p>
<p>I'll think about grad school when it comes, I refuse to shape my life by trying to accomodate for "what comes next". That's the way I've lived high school, and it has worked out well for me. Besides I'm sick and tired of being "the best".</p>
<p>A lot of people love learning here, I'd think. I do. It's not shocking at all (although might be because you go to high school, where most of the good students are automatons).</p>
<p>Pebbles, "you go girl". </p>
<p>Ugh, I can't believe I just said that. But it's so true!</p>
<p>yes pebbles--i figured that that was implied (thats why where both on this board). and apparently, you havent been frusterated/belittled/challenged enough. let me tell you "girl-friend" that its not as fun or easy as it sounds. but if thats what you really want, kids who survive CalTech are the schizz-dizz.</p>