<p>The general consensus regarding MIT is that it is an extraordinarily rigorous and demanding school. MIT freely admits it to be such. </p>
<p>[MIT</a> Admissions | Blog Entry: “MIT is hard”](<a href=“http://www.mitadmissions.org/topics/learning/majors_minors/mit_is_hard.shtml]MIT”>http://www.mitadmissions.org/topics/learning/majors_minors/mit_is_hard.shtml)</p>
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<p>If Ivy undergrads truly exhibited high dissatisfaction rates, one would think that more students would transfer out. After all, these aren’t mediocre scrub students here: these are Ivy undergrads. Surely most of them have the qualifications transfer to an average school if they really wanted to, for it’s not that hard to transfer to an average school. Moreover, as a group, the Ivies exhibit some of the highest yields, both absolute and cross, of any group of schools in the country. </p>
<p>Hence, it begs the question of, if the Ivy undergrad experience is so unsatisfactory, why do so many admittees choose to go, and while there, why do so many of them choose to stay and graduate? Clearly that must mean that there is something desirable about those schools.</p>