<p>Oops! Well, let’s say Harvard them. Boston has a gazillion college students, so you’re not restricted to MIT. Heck, I saw more BU, Wellesley girls at MIT frat parties than actual MIT girls.</p>
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<p>There are actually a lot of good reasons that MIT guys feel this way. It has nothing to do with individual girls, but rather averages. Also these reasons don’t necessarily have much to do with “looks.” MIT guys are smart enough to know there are way more important things than a girls appearance.</p>
<p>Again, I’m not saying all or even most MIT guys think like this. But I do know a fair number, and they are not evil monsters, but rather extremely rational and fair thinking people.</p>
<p>Hey, I just think they’re moderately odious – just the ones who won’t date MIT girls, not the ones who happen not to.</p>
<p>Charles Lin wrote a funny column that relates to this phenomenon of some MIT guys not wanting to date MIT girls. You can find it here: [Squid</a> vs. Whale - The Tech](<a href=“http://tech.mit.edu/V127/N54/clin.html]Squid”>http://tech.mit.edu/V127/N54/clin.html)
My favorite excerpt:</p>
<p>“Though both beavers and MIT students achieve degrees in engineering, the similarities stop there. First and foremost, beavers are physically gifted and socially adept animals. We dont need a swim test! We were born to swim. We are also highly evolved when it comes to communicating and socializing as evidenced by our skills in romance, something many MIT students lack. Upon reaching adulthood, all beavers easily find their mates for life. More importantly, we find mates within our own species and see no need to bus Wellesley Girls into our domain.”</p>
<p>My MIT daughter has been dating an MIT boy for nearly a year now, and personally, I think they’re both very good looking. But you just have to take my word for it, because if I posted a link to a picture, I’d be persona non grata for life.</p>
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<p>Haha, and few things feel worse than being turned down by an ugly chick…it’s much easier to rationalize being turned down by a chick who all the guys are after anyway…</p>
<p>^^I have just one question. Is your cc handle going to be your new email at MIT? Because that would be awesome…</p>
<p>Remember…women love confidence.</p>
<p>Not to sound weird, but I do sense a peculiar and yet unfathomable attraction toward the intense nerdiness, and intellectual capacity of MIT girls… You can find pretty girls everywhere, but girls as smart and crazy about science/math as MIT girls are extremely rare.</p>
<p>^^ Geez, if I could find girls who’d actually listen to me when I open my mouth about math, I’d be 
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<p>They exist, but are few in number where I come from. </p>
<p>Amusing what this discussion has come down to!</p>
<p>heh. pretty girls are dime a dozen, I think you’ll come to appreciate what MIT has to offer ;)</p>
<p>haha, i didn’t expect to find such a love-in for nerdy gals here!
and to the OP’s question: i WOULD, although i didn’t apply to MIT, unfortunately.</p>
<p>Oh, I don’t know. My S hasn’t seemed to be lacking in beautiful MIT girls to date. As a bonus, they are highly intelligent, doing fascinating projects, and they’re very, very nice.</p>
<p>As to original topic: S turned down some really top colleges and universities for MIT – it was bittersweet sending in the “admissions turn-down” cards, at least for this parent. But he has no regrets 3 years later. What was it about MIT that tipped the balance? Obviously students work really hard, and the courses can be astonishingly difficult. But there is an element of fun, too, the atmosphere is creative and exciting at MIT, it is one of those intangible things.</p>
<p>@mathboy98, ahem. My D loves math and science (and she’s also pretty), and she wants to apply to MIT in the fall. Take heart! There are pretty mathgeek girls out there, I promise. Some of them read this board, so be nice!</p>
<p>IMO, there is absolutely no better environment for a science-loving kid who also wants the benefits a an urban environment. My son has not regretted going to MIT for one second. He now has a girlfriend (a student at BU) but has met lots of terrific girls at MIT as well (and not one at Harvard!).</p>
<p>If you think you might focus in the arts, humanities or social sciences (other than economics), you may want to go elsewhere. There are only 50-60 total undergraduates who have declared majors outside of science, engineering and economics. I’m sure the quality of the education in the arts, humanities and social sciences is excellent, but culturally, one may feel a bit isolated.</p>
<p>Why MIT? Because I actually like science.</p>
<p>Maybe my kind of chick will be at this school, 
The chick who also has a 174 IQ and who loves to party!</p>
<p>I get intimidated by MIT girls. </p>
<p>Just FYI.</p>
<p>We don’t bite, Chris :D</p>
<p>(Well, unless you want them to.)</p>
<p>This has been a great thread.</p>
<p>Thanks for all the input, I’m looking into top Engineering schools right now myself (MIT, Hulman, Harvey Mudd, RPI, Caltech). Mostly smaller d3 schools where I could play baseball.</p>
<p>Also good to hear from actual people about legitimate social life in MIT, but in Boston you have to work not to enjoy it from what I hear.</p>
<p>@Chris, </p>
<p>I get intimidated by MIT guys. </p>
<p>Just FYI </p>
<p>Nah, I generally find all MIT students VERY AWESOME PEOPLE. This is probably why I have “adopted” someone at MIT to be my older “brother”, have two people I treat like sisters, and a MIT boyfriend.</p>
<p>In all honesty, there are times when I visit Harvard and regret not applying. Perhaps I could have had to chance to walk those gorgeous halls and live in their redbrick dorms. They actually have real performing venues, and Stata doesn’t exist on their campus like some steel-conglomerate atrocity.</p>
<p>MIT has been everything I had hoped for and more. But that doesn’t mean that from time to time I don’t look at other top-tier schools in awe and wonder why I’m not there instead. It all boils down to the fact that most top-tier schools are equally awesome in academics and social life. Sure, in Cambridge you have a larger gathering of nerds at MIT and a concentration of business majors at Harvard, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t some of the other at each school. The Sloanies are MIT take their major very seriously, and I have quite a few friends who are doing brilliant research at Harvard’s school of Arts and Sciences.</p>
<p>I used to scorn other schools like Princeton, stating that they weren’t as nerdy or as scientific as MIT, but in retrospect you really have to hand it to all top-tier schools (and even those lower than we) for being brilliant in their own way.</p>
<p>I don’t think you can go wrong with rejecting MIT, either. It’s not which school you went to; it’s what you do while you’re there.</p>