IVY versus top schools like Caltech,MIT,etc.

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I know many who give up Penn, Stanford, MIT, Dartmouth for BME at JHU… even for IR too lol.

For the year for which I have a complete data set, two students turned down MIT for JHU (EDIT: and two turned down MIT for Chicago). 150 turned down MIT for Harvard.</p>

<p>Overall, that year 68% of MIT admits chose MIT. Of those who did not, 70% turned down MIT for one of the Ivy League schools (primarily Harvard, Yale, or Princeton), Stanford, or Caltech. Comparatively few students seem to turn down MIT for merit scholarships.</p>