Replying to you and 2Devils:
I agree with both of you in part and those descriptions are consistent with our visit day. My daughter has done artificial intelligence/programming, many Stem activities and her research is in engineering. Mit portayed itself as a math and science focused school which still provides a solid humanities education taught with a stem “lens” , if you will, with an arts focus that was evident. The intellectual intensity was similar to JHU, Uchicago and Harvard. Understandably one cannot get a complete picture based on a visit, but the virtual sessions have helped too. Mit is not perfect, but it is a match for fit for her. Thank you both for your thoughts.