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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]MIT was MIT for a long time before it got incorporated into HYPSM.  *It* didn't change; the perception of its desirability did. The point is prestige is faddish.  Tech is in vogue. How long that will last is a matter of debate (see NYT article about job prospects).  And if it does last, it could easily represent a threat to elite colleges as we know them.

A part of me thinks that the M is in there as an attempt to bolster the scholarly cred of HYPS -- i.e. to pretend that this constellation represents an aspiration to academic excellence rather than to fame/power/status/fortune or perhaps that acceptance into the club is a mark of brains and determination rather than of privilege. The kids for whom HYPS are essentially interchangeable are typically not good candidates for MIT (and vice versa). [/quote]

The kids who went to MIT when I went to an Ivy had typically been rejected by HYP.  Has that changed? [/quote]

So you mean to say that an engineering applicant would be rejected at Yale but accepted to MIT? really? when was that? must have been very very long ago.

Not true nowadays. MIT is arguably harder than both Princeton and Yale to get in. Also has a more prestigious name internationally than either. Same goes for S.  [/quote]

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