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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]MIT grad from the late 1900s - heh.  It was tough to get into but didn’t have the level of perfection that seems to be required.

Back in my day it didn’t feel competitive.  Partly because the first year was Pass/No Record, partly because the kids I hung out with were all convinced it was a an administrative error that got us in.

BUT - really it was partly because it was so prestigious and selective, it didn’t matter if your were first or last - you were still an MIT student and that carried a lot of weight.

My brother went to another highly but not as highly ranked tech school (think CMU, RPI) and it was much more competitive.  I got the same impression from the graduates of those schools.

Anyway - I have no idea what other schools are like that, OP - I was at a few other schools for graduate degrees and it never had the same feeling. My recommendation is to not look at the schools that are the fall backs for the kids who didn’t get into MIT - because a good % of them they will always have a chip on their shoulder.

Visiting schools back in the day - I really liked Swarthmore and Bryn Mawr.   [/quote]

in the 1990s, MIT admissions rate was 40%[/quote]

More like 20 percent[/quote]

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