Prestige/Expensive vs. Good/Cheap

[molliebatmit]

<p>The numbers I have seen for MIT’s enrollment last year support to some degree what JHS is saying – 70% of those who turn down MIT turn it down for an Ivy, Stanford, or Caltech. Only about 4% of MIT admits (~10% of those who turn down MIT overall) turn down MIT for a state school.</p>

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@dstark

By the way, how do the schools know what other schools their matriculants were accepted to?

In all seriousness, Facebook.</p>

<p>EDIT:

If so few kids choose Berkeley or UVa over Harvard, where in heck are all those 200 kids coming from (and going)? It isn’t Penn State, I don’t think.

In MIT’s case, it’s Michigan and Georgia Tech first, the rest nowhere – the rest of the state schools get one or two kids, presumably in-state.</p>