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im extremely interested in both these schools, thing is, i only have a few meager EC (church choir, church secretary, lacrosse, FPS club). i know MIT puts less emphasis on ECs, but are they strong in areas besides science?

By Warriorlax22 (Warriorlax22) on Tuesday, December 30, 2003 - 10:43 pm: Edit

uh, if lacrosse is important to you, go to princeton.

By Foreignboy (Foreignboy) on Thursday, January 01, 2004 - 10:16 pm: Edit

MIT is very strong in arts, despite its name, though maybe not as strong as Princeton. And I disagree that MIT puts less emphasis on ECs.

By Mzhang23 (Mzhang23) on Thursday, January 01, 2004 - 10:18 pm: Edit

If you're looking for a more laid-back environment, go Princeton. People are a lot more stressed out at MIT.

By Celebrian23 (Celebrian23) on Friday, January 02, 2004 - 12:11 pm: Edit

im interested in political science and biology and i guess becuase mit is the institute of technology i think theyre not strong in other areas. Which school is slightly easier to get into?

By Eccentricity (Eccentricity) on Friday, January 02, 2004 - 01:02 pm: Edit

MIT

By Webhappy2 (Webhappy2) on Friday, January 02, 2004 - 01:40 pm: Edit

MIT is insanely hard to get into if you're a male (esp. if you're an Asian male). If you're a female, MIT is amazingly easy to get into. If you're URM, MIT should be quite easy to get into.

By Celebrian23 (Celebrian23) on Friday, January 02, 2004 - 01:48 pm: Edit

sweet i am a female urm

By Pillsburychoboy (Pillsburychoboy) on Friday, January 02, 2004 - 04:07 pm: Edit

MIT is obviously an engineering driven school, but it also has the #2 undergrad business program (Sloan), a world-famous economics program, and, from what I hear, very good humanities. Princeton has great arts, humanities, and social sciences - its engineering program is not as great (though I think the operations research and financial engineering program is unique to Princeton, at least in the highest echelons of colleges).

Princeton and MIT both have absolutely spectacular names, but I believe that MIT gets more respect because it's so hardcore.

By Brianktm (Brianktm) on Friday, January 02, 2004 - 04:19 pm: Edit

Let the adcoms pick for you, it's very unlikely you'll be accepted to both.

By Voigtrob (Voigtrob) on Friday, January 02, 2004 - 04:34 pm: Edit

As a female URM interested in the sciences, if she has very good stats, I think it's probably likely she'll be accepted to both.

By Nihilist (Nihilist) on Friday, January 02, 2004 - 04:40 pm: Edit

princeton's physics-engineering program is rated #1

By Metra (Metra) on Friday, January 02, 2004 - 04:53 pm: Edit

By who?

If its that thing on Pton's website, then its crap. MIT, Caltech, Berkeley, Stanford arent on it..

By Voigtrob (Voigtrob) on Friday, January 02, 2004 - 06:54 pm: Edit

For Physics, USNews says (for grad programs, if we can translate those to undergrad which I believe in some ways they can because it equals quality of professors, money used in that dept, etc) Caltech and MIT are tied for #1, Princeton, Stanford, Berkeley, and Harvard are tied for #3.

By Gumbino (Gumbino) on Thursday, February 19, 2004 - 03:11 pm: Edit

What's a URM?

By Gumbino (Gumbino) on Thursday, February 19, 2004 - 03:16 pm: Edit

Underrepresented minority?

By 123456789abcdef (123456789abcdef) on Thursday, February 19, 2004 - 03:23 pm: Edit

Voigtrob, I believe you misread the ranking on USNEWS. I copied and pasted it here:

Physics (Ranked in 2002*)
Rank/School Average assessment score (5 = highest)
1. California Institute of Technology 5.0
Massachusetts Institute of Technology 5.0
3. Harvard University (MA) 4.9
Princeton University (NJ) 4.9
Stanford University (CA) 4.9
University of California¨CBerkeley 4.9

MIT is ranked second after Caltech and Princeton is ranked fourth (they just didn't put all the individual numbers on the side)

By Squarishcircle (Squarishcircle) on Thursday, February 19, 2004 - 03:38 pm: Edit

MIT isn't ranked second, it's tied for first

the list of names are simply in alphabetical order if they are tied.