<p>Like Molly said, “Athletics is useful at MIT in the way that being good at any EC is useful. But it is not as useful as it is at division I schools, including Ivy League schools.”</p>
<p>In order to be good at a sport you need to be passionate, dedicated, and hard working. Those are all things that MIT likes to see in their applicants. But an applicant can show those traits in other types of EC’s. They are all looked at in the same light.</p>