I am a recent MIT B.S. graduate, AMA.

collegealum314
Mon, 19 Nov 2012 04:14:54 +0000

What were your professors like? I can’t just ask if calculus II is harder at MIT than at the community college, because it depends on the instructor. What makes MIT stand out? Small class sizes and lots of interaction with the instructor? Do you feel, like you gained special knowledge from going to MIT, or was it just standard curricula taught by instructors with impressive backgrounds?



Most of the top 20 colleges are roughly the same in terms of the curriculum, but not MIT (or Caltech.)

MIT is very different. Part of it is that the quality and quantity of people in the student body makes it possible for the courses to be very advanced and very intense. They ask things of their students that you just couldn’t do elsewhere.