End of AdMIT Weekend, after a party at Beacon Hill
Myth 1: There are no Indians at Sloan.
Not true, I got to meet plenty of them...
Myth 2: Only geeks study MIT.
People DO party hard as they study hard. I went to 2 parties, so I saw with my own eyes.
Myth 3: The ladies.
Man, Sloan is the MIT with the ladies! Not that for me this counts as I'm married, but I can assure that there are lots of beautiful women there
All in all, I had a pretty good time in Boston-Cambridge. The Boston area is pretty amazing - although the weather was very snowy - and the people are smart, human, cooperative and very friendly.
I believe though, that they a underestimate the "power of the event" as in some situation they could have been more organized. I meet many interesting people, and I could see the entrepreneurship is the main driver there. They are building some new dorms, and a new amazing building that will be ready in 2010.
I met one guy who got into HBS and Sloan, and is heading MIT; one girl deciding between Kellogg and MIT, and decided to go to MIT; a Brazilian guy that decided to go to Kellogg, and several other people still deciding.
Some stats they gave us:
4000 applicants
715 is the mean Gmat
60% from US
20% Asia
7% Latam
And yes I walked through the infinite corridor...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infinite_corridor