collegealum314

See link for QS World University Ranking
QS World University Rankings - Topuniversities

HPuck35

Proud that it was ranked #1, but the absolute ranking number is just one person's judgement. Another person, another ranking. Suffice to say, MIT is a top university.

rspence

Yeah, ratings are usually very subjective, but not so much if you take the input of a lot of people. In my opinion, MIT > Caltech.

lidusha

MIT and Caltech are different schools with different ways of teaching and different strengths and weaknesses. I don't think most people are qualified to compare them; I certainly don't think you can boil them down to one parameter and say that MIT>Caltech.

perazziman

Do not know if it is #1 or not, but MIT has the best info sessions in the industry. They can do what this old man has been unable to do for the last one year, talk my son into applying. Believe me I have taken him to all the info sessions from all the Ivies and other top schools that came to town, so they would spark his imagination. But nothing worked until today

The more you tell him it is the best school the less he wants to apply. But you guys told him something else that made him take notice.

HPuck35

perazziman, curious to know what they said that sparked his imagination?

perazziman

I am afraid, I do not know exactly what, since my wife and I left the auditorium once the info session began.

The nice thing was that on the drive home he was very relaxed and talkative. Most of the time, after such events, he is tense and says little more than how these sessions waste his time and how he could get the info from the website. However, this time around, he was talking about how he was impressed by their multidisciplinary approach to problem solving, UROPs ... to how he loved their emergency pizza button. It just seemed like he had a good time and understood why someone may want to go to a place like MIT for reasons other than it is #1 or to develop a career.- things that as adults we like to talk about but not as important to at least, my 17 year old.

sbjdorlo

Ha-ha, perazzi, my son's like yours-not thinkin' about a career at all at this point. Not even thinking about UROP really. He chose MIT for: STEM, Boston, the people.
The big excitement for him so far is doing well on psets and improving his ping-pong. :-)

Ahaanomegas

Thanks a lot for sharing! MIT is truly a sacred place.