<p>^Full disclosure: I’ve never been to either of these schools.</p>
<p>I think a major difference is MITs concentration is STEM fields. Sure they have other concentrations, but they definitely have a bigger and more exclusive emphasis on these areas compared to S, which while strong in these fields, also has strengths in many other unrelated areas of study.</p>
<p>A non-academic difference is that athletics are big at S, even when compared to schools like HYP which are also D1.</p>
<p>I would guess that both of these factors lead to major differences in the cultures of these schools.</p>