<p>Affe, based on your last post, I think it’s clear that Stanford would be the better choice for you. MIT and Stanford are both fantastic schools with strengths in CS and econ, but Stanford would offer you far more opportunity to explore a broad range of intellectual interests–including some interests you may not yet realize you have. As a tech school, MIT has done a relatively good job (compared with, say, Caltech) of offering courses in the humanities, social sciences, etc., but Stanford, as a full-spectrum research university, is in another league entirely in this regard. Its superb science and engineering departments are matched by similarly excellent departments in virtually every field of study. Stanford also operates on the quarter system, which maximizes students’ opportunities to explore an especially wide range of courses before declaring their majors at the end of sophomore year. For students who arrive at college with a very open mind about their prospective courses of study, Stanford would be the better match–even before taking into account the weather, campus, housing, dining and many other quality-of-life differentials. Of course, you’ll be getting the “feel” of each place first-hand when you visit. Enjoy your admit weekends!</p>