<p>Hi everyone, I am a senior Asian female applying to MIT this fall for regular decision. I would love to attend MIT as I am interested in majoring in biology or mathematics. However, I'm a little worried that I won't fit in. I'm a diligent and assiduous student, but I've heard that students at MIT are sort of nerdy and lack social skills. I know this is simply a stereotype but I'm a sorority, homecoming queen, cheerleading kind of person and I'm worried that I wont fit in. Any advice or wisdom?</p>
<p>Whoever says people at MIT lacks social skills definitly has never been to MIT and probably has never been to Boston area :D</p>
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If you’re admitted, visit MIT during CPW and see what you think. </p>
<p>Personally, I suspect you will be surprised: there are plenty of sorority types at MIT, given that there are six sororities on campus that enroll about a quarter of MIT women. There are enough cheerleading types to fill a small, but high-quality, cheerleading squad (and I was the captain when I was an undergrad and the coach for a few years as a grad student, so I know from the cheerleading squad). Some of the women I know from the cheerleading squad were not merely homecoming queens, but legitimate pageant queens. </p>
<p>So there’s no question that you can find your niche in the MIT community, and there are plenty of people like you on campus. The question is 1) whether you can tolerate the members of the MIT community who are nerdy and lack social skills, because they do exist to varying degrees; and 2) whether you have a little bit of nerdiness in your soul, because no matter how sorority girl/cheerleading squad/homecoming queen she is on the surface, almost everybody at MIT is excited about taking difficult classes and majoring in complicated technical subjects, and therefore has a little nerdiness in her somewhere.</p>
<p>Why would you love to attend MIT?</p>