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[quote=Anonymous]They have some very good faculty, and they apparently have the best media studies department in the country (a friend of mine went to grad school for media studies there).  My good friend went to MIT and studied math and computer science, but she very much enjoyed her humanities classes at MIT.  She was actually required to take more of them than I was as a science major at a SLAC!  I think that MIT really does try to make sure that the kids who graduate are well rounded people and know how to write and communicate.

I think part of it is that students who get into MIT are all around great students.  There are not so many students who are B English students but super-geniuses at math at MIT, despite the stereotypes (most of these kids are 5 on the AP English exam types).  MIT is so selective, that it can choose kids who are strong all around, and many of those kids, although they are STEM focused, are good at/do enjoy taking humanities classes.  They also can attract great professors and scholars because it is a school with a fantastic reputation filled with bright people.  I don't know that that many people actually major in the humanities, but the curriculum is strong.[/quote]

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