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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think you don't see people discussing CMU for the same reason you really don't see them discussing MIT.  The DCUM crowd doesn't seem to produce hard core elite science types.[/quote]

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The elite science types go to MIT, Stanford, Caltech not CMU, for undergrad. [/quote]

[b]This is not true.[/b] I agree with the original PPs assessment. People don't talk about CMU on DCUM the same way they don't really discuss MIT. It's not really on the radar. [/quote]

Frankly, I've never been able to understand why MIT isn't discussed here.  It is as elite as HYPs.  Why don't people obsess over it the way they obsess over them?[/quote]

Because MIT is too small and too specialized. No other schools to compare with other than CalTech which is another very small school. [/quote]

Not really. the tippy top STEM kids aim for MIT, Stanford, then Caltech and then there is a big jump for everything else. MIT is very much on the radar, its name recognition is up there with Harvard and Stanford. Of course it is more self selected than the ivies because of the STEM focus and its level of difficulty. People just know it is insanely hard.

MIT is actually not that specialized compared to other top engineering schools. it has top STEM of course but also and many top social sciences departments (econ, psych, linguistics etc),  creative writing and more.

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