Graduate Admission into MIT

jessiehl
Thu, 29 May 2008 13:16:22 +0000

Extremely strong performance in classes in one’s major are expected in these fields.



Yes, strong performance is expected (and not just in those fields either), but it’s still a research degree.

My point was not that strong performance is somehow not important. It was that for a PhD, the OP should weight “faculty research fits with my interests” over “they have some cool classes” (though both are worthy of consideration).