Any info on MIT and other top universities for STEM?

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Personal experience:

- GO FOR THE BEST fukkING SCHOOL POSSIBLE.
I'm going to say that up front, if you can get into ANY ENGINEERING SCHOOL that's nationally renowned.
DO IT.

- Cal-Tech
- Stanford
- MIT
- UC Berkeley
- UCLA
- Georgia Tech
etc.

If you can get in, DO IT. Early Career Brand Name Recognition pays fukking dividends and there are opportunities to start considerably higher than
your early career peers.


But if you're like me (and looking at your GPA, you're definitely not (This is a compliment ) )
- Go to a solid STATE SCHOOL.
- Choose based on local industries and where YOU want to go (Defense? Aeronautics/Aerospace? Cars? Agriculture? Tech? etc.)
- Once you get there EXCEL in school AND take EVERY SINGLE opportunity for WORK EXPERIENCE.
- Go to EVERY. SINGLE. JOB. FAIR. IF you're a breh, you don't have the luxury to slack, get your ass to EVERYTHING.
- Know your professors!!! Get LORs for when you go off to graduate school (My management helped with this, I'm already in industry
but YMMV so I suggest PROFESSSORS FIRST).

Sign up for the National Society of Black Engineers AND make sure to sign up for any other "Black" focused programs.


**And where ever you wind up going career wise.
GO HARD!!

My experience has been that once you get deeper into your career and know how to provide VALUE and APPLY YOUR EDUCATION, people
care less and less about where you WENT but more so what you DO or DID.

I graduated from some no name, private university and I didn't get my degree until well into my career which allowed me to pivot more than once
and land where I'm at (Engineering). My coworkers got here earlier (Cal Poly graduates, Cal Tech Graduates, UCLA Graduates, USC Graduates etc.)
but we all wound up at the same place (A Top Company in our space making well above average salaries with room for continued career growth.)


Good luck.

 

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Yeah these Caltech and M.I.T people are built different.

Everyone makes it seem like the people they choose just get good grades and that's all, but no, these are exceptional people who get admitted. 4.0 GPA isn't even the floor, because that accomplishment is too easy.

Like she was taking Multivariable Calculus, Discrete Math and Linear Algebra at a University while she was 3rd year High School. President of the Math society, entered Math Olympiads, got perfect scores on SAT's, etc. She taking trips around the country in competitions, speaks multiple languages, finishing science programs around the nation that are invite only, etc. This is all a high schooler.


Like I said earlier, then these people go on to major in multiple fields while studying at these schools because the subjects themselves are too easy for them. Only 25,000 people on this planet have graduated from Caltech, similar magnitude within the scale of making the NBA. These people are rare af.

This.

I remember Caltech sending me recruiting packets in high school and it was the first time I was like "hell nah" when looking at what an "average perspective student" profile looked like.

Feel like I could finesse my way into some top flight schools but MIT/Caltech weren't it. They take truly extraordinary people moreso than just your typical high SAT/GPA nerds.

OP should apply just to see what happens at least.