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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]MIT is a wonderful university, among the best in the world in tech, engineering, bio sciences, social sciences etc... Caltech is a different beast, and the more rigorous of the two institutes - they do not tolerate mediocrity and there is very little support for the undergrads. It's a true sink-or-swim situation. You won't meet many Caltech grads (<250/class), but they are universally smart and have swum in the deep end of the pool. MIT is rigorous, but there is more student support and more of a traditional university feel - frats, parties, sports are more relevant. Some of the Cambridge colleges are similar but you really only study one subject there and they use the tutorial system.[b] They also have no other requirements (humanities) unlike most US universities[/b]. I think for the breadth of excellence at the academic level in the US, the only peer might be Stanford, but it's a totally different feel as many know. Princeton, Harvard and Cornell all have good academic breadth, but their engineering/CS is less applied/more theoretical so not really peers. My 2cents for what it's worth.[/quote]
MIT does have humanity credit requirements although Economics classes, which are heavily math driven, are considered humanities.[/quote]

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