Our visit yesterday to the campus of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology was unique for the trip in that MIT was the only school we saw that was not a member of the Ivy League. That said, their admission standards are tougher than many of the Ivies.
The first thing I noticed about the campus was that in contrast to the buildings at Harvard, which appear to have been constructed by the Pilgrims, most of the buildings on MIT's campus appear to have been built last week--if not since.
Dayton loved the campus and the pitch. He didn't mind that (unlike Harvard) they didn't try to pretend that the students are not nerds. His reaction was that this would be a great place to go to school. That said, he's been rather focused on a liberal arts education and, while MIT offers a liberal arts program, that isn't the area for which they are most well known. Dayton still seems inclined to apply.
In the airport, on the way home yesterday, we made a list of the schools he's interested in attended. If anything, the trip seems to have increased the size of the list. When one of the schools mentioned a semester at the London School of Economics, suddenly a new candidate popped on to the radar screen.
Dayton will have to decide quickly! Applications take weeks if not months to prepare and the first one will be due before Halloween!
Hey Devon... If you'd like, I have a few friends who attended London School of Economics... if I can track them down, they may be amenable to being interviewed by Dayton.
Also, MIT has a kick-a econ program... though I think it's post-grad. MIT may, then, be a good post-grad choice.
Just thinking.
Posted by: Silus Grok | July 27, 2006 3:00 PM | Permalink to Comment