IIT vs MIT
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jman19
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I don't know about the relative difficulties of the two schools, but I can tell you that the number of people that apply to MIT every year isn't close to 300,000 so the admittance percentages are of course going to be lower for a school with so many people applying for a small number of slots for students.
MIT doesn't have an entrance exam... they review students based upon high school achievement, SAT I/II scores (perhaps the ACT as well, I'm not sure), and any outstanding features a student may have.
MIT doesn't have an entrance exam... they review students based upon high school achievement, SAT I/II scores (perhaps the ACT as well, I'm not sure), and any outstanding features a student may have.
AgaBoogaBoo
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You'll need to take the SAT, once oyu have that you should be able to apply. I would email the MIT admissions office asking for requirements, the SAT's can be taken anytime during high school.
It's naive to compare the the raw acceptance rate when it's obvious that everyone in India takes the exam even if they have no chance of getting into ITT. People elect to apply to MIT so there's already a self-selection bias there.
american college admittance is completely different. there is no defacto test that determines admittance. we have the SAT, but that is only one of many factors for determining admittance. american colleges look heavily at other things like extracurricular activities, awards/honors, etc. to try to evaluate students at a more holistic level.
MIT is more prestigious than IIT because of its research programs. MIT is waaay bigger and has waaay more resources than IIT.
comparing the students who attend MIT and IIT is pretty pointless. all top schools are full of brilliant kids. however, some will argue that MIT has better students because it has large international appeal and is the destination for kids interested in engineering.
sounds to me like you were curious, but mainly wanted to show that IIT > MIT. but that's just my interpretation.
You just started a flame war.
American doesn't look at test scores alone, there is a big emphasis in extra-curricular activties and leadership skills. We admit more well-rounded individuals than those who are just good test takers.
he simply asked a question. :roll: no need to get all hissy fit on him.
nikhilesh: i suggest you really contact the admissions office at MIT and see what they can do for you. there's a mentality in america that they don't like overseas students, so you won't get much help here. your question is valid and is certainly more thought out than the other indian-students-wanting-to-get-into-american-university threads, so you probably should bypass the biased individuals who have responded negatively to you in this thread and deal with the admissions department directly. they can also get you in touch with students and possibly individuals from india who are currently studying at the university.
with regards to your questions: all prestigious universities, including MIT, require you to be a well-rounded student. they look at your test scores (SAT or ACT as well as SAT II, but it would likely be different if you come from abroad), your extra-curricular student involvement, your recommendations from teachers, and your grades from high school. chances are, you will also have to write an essay about a specific predetermined topic (although it changes yearly). there is no specific entrance test.
students choose to apply to MIT among the thousands of universities in america. only a few of those students get accepted. there's an application fee as well.
if you say that 300,000 students apply for IIT and only 1% of those students are accepted, that's a big reach in your country. according to collegeconfidential.com, MIT's acceptance rate for the class of 2005 was 19%. given that this was several years ago and more students are continuing to seek higher education, it is probably lower now. MIT also has approximately 1,000 students in its freshman class.
truthfully, though, don't get too excited over these statistics. i know from living in america that MIT is a very hard school to get into. however, it never hurts to try.
Wow, a lot of ignorance about MIT and IIT.
IIT is a TOP NOTCH school as good if not better than MIT for undergraduate studies. They don't have the research money that MIT has but they more than make up with it by having great teachers and a TOUGH TOUGH program.
An IIT graduate will be as well prepared for an engineering career as an MIT graduate.
When it comes to graduate level(masters or PhD) then MIT wins because they have so much money pumped into it. You can't get a valuable graduate level degree without research and you can't beat MIT's research money.
IIT is a TOP NOTCH school as good if not better than MIT for undergraduate studies. They don't have the research money that MIT has but they more than make up with it by having great teachers and a TOUGH TOUGH program.
An IIT graduate will be as well prepared for an engineering career as an MIT graduate.
When it comes to graduate level(masters or PhD) then MIT wins because they have so much money pumped into it. You can't get a valuable graduate level degree without research and you can't beat MIT's research money.
Rock Hydra
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lol you gotta be fvcking kidding me. reminds me of the kia vs ferrari thread
the ONLY other "institute of technology" that mit even considers as a rival is caltech. you guys aren't even on the radar.
oh man... still laughing
ahem, sorry about that.
the ONLY other "institute of technology" that mit even considers as a rival is caltech. you guys aren't even on the radar.
oh man... still laughing
ahem, sorry about that.
halik
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Achievements, nobel prize winners, published papers, patents, inventions. Lookup some of the international college ratings, MIT is always in the top 5.
I hope you're not trying to insinuate that MIT is somehow not the top engineering/math/it university in the world...
Comparing the two schools:
top 100 universities in the world
MIT #5
IIT 202-302 bracket
Strictly speaking, a university degree only servles you as a means of getting a job.
So using that perspective, two idetical candidates one an MIT grad and one IIT grad, the MIT alum is better off.
You do realize he's not talking about ITT or the Illinois Institute of Technology? The Indian Institute of Technology is a very different school than those two, and is one of the top technology schools in the world for undergraduate studies, right up there with MIT.
Gibson486
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The difficulty getting into that school is way up there, but once you are in I am not sure you could call the school any hardrer than another. I have a guy who i work with that went to MIT and all he says is that it was good, it was fun and he worked hard. He really never mentions anything like MIT being really difficult.
3 of my coworkers are from MIT. Two with dual majors and they said that it wasn't really that hard. But then they might already be very good at school as it is.
For me its hard to grasp a difficult concept but when I do get it, I find myself pretty involved in it.
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