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Right, I mean if MIT faculty really are like that, it is probably unique to that school to a great extent. Otherwise, the faculty would probably disregard all but the most advanced MIT students (i.e. this is what I think happens at most schools).
Though, the ones who talked to you at any "orientation" type day may be faculty unusually enthusiastic about catering to younger ones. I actually know one basically world-class professor at my school who is arguably nicer to undergraduates than to grad students; i.e., if you're just a student, he is kind, but if you try to, say, research with him, he'll coldly shun you unless you're absolutely the best of the best. Everyone he has advised has basically gone on to become of the caliber that gets tenured at a school like MIT, and probably solves something really ridiculously big.
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