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I'll chime in with a couple of words about my alma mater, MIT. It's been said that learning at MIT is like drinking from a fire hose, and that is pretty darned accurate. It's super hectic, very intense, and they have the best civilian collegiate shooting teams in the country. I'd never get in these days; I didn't do "enough," get high enough scores, etc. It can be a _fabulous_ place for intense, hard-working, hard-playing kids who know how (and who) to ask for help when (not if!) they get stuck or overwhelmed. Living groups (not dorms) are very distinctive and the right match can make your career there (and the wrong one can make a kid miserable). That said -- if your son is bound and determined on a course of study that requires graduate work, think again about MIT. The school that first job will look at will be the last one -- and MIT discourages undergrads from going to grad school at the 'Tute (more in some areas than others). If he needs grad school, go someplace else, learn like a fiend, then go to MIT for that graduate work. If you (or he) has specific questions about MIT, email/message me separately. My husband may have good info as well; he was there for seven years and got out with four degrees, plus he works with the Pistol Team every week and so has current info on student life.