Columbia College v. MIT

trf1021
Tue, 20 Apr 2010 15:11:21 +0000

Just so you know, this is coming from a waitlistee. Columbia and MIT were my top 2 choices, but I realllllly love MIT so MIT was my #1. Honestly, you can’t go wrong with either one, but you get a certain type of environment at MIT that I have not seen anywhere else and if you want an academically intense, extremely collaborative, yet fun experience, I would go with MIT. I visited MIT twice and I spoke with plenty of students and they are very “chill” haha. Of course you will get some really weird math/science nerds, but the great thing is that everyone is a math/science nerd and also a human being. No offense at all to Columbia, though. It has an amazing physics department and the core is brilliant, but it is a completely different experience. Good luck and congratulations on getting into two incredible schools.