Chance me for MIT

Coloradomama
Mon, 13 Nov 2017 03:53:54 +0000

@lazyafazn If you were not able to get your Georgia Tech app in by the EA deadline of Oct 15, may
turn out to be hard to get in as an out of state student, if you put computer science
as your major. I have seen about four (small sample size, but just
so you know ) perfect grade and perfect scoring students from Colorado,
even girls, get a wait list or reject from GT when they apply RD. Those same students
get into Berkeley and UCLA by the way. They have the stats, but GT is about half
the size of the really large public schools. 15,000 versus 30,000 undergrads.

Think about adding Purdue and UIUC to your list, almost guaranteed you will
get into both. UIUC has the identical program to MIT’s EECS, but it is a monstrously large
school, with lots of Chicago kids in cliques. Purdue I think may be a tad easier once you get
there, but the rank of Purdue Engineering is right up there, in the top ten.

How about Caltech? Its small like MIT, may be easier as an Asian male to get into Caltech.
Caltech is on the quarter calendar, which is very intense, compared to the semester calendar
for some students. Caltech does not offer the breadth of majors, like business, economics, urban planning,
political science etc you would get at MIT, or any of the public programs,
but for your intended majors, its at the top of the heap. (math, physics, EECS).

Harvey Mudd College does not have the research options on campus that all your other
choices have. Its a very small undergraduate school, and you would get to know your professors
very well. Apparently its harder to get As at Harvey Mudd than it is at Caltech or MIT, there are posts
about the tough grading you can read. So if you want to attend grad school, think about that tough grading
system.

Both Caltech and MIT offer at least one semester or quarter pass fail.