MIT recruitment posters

[AOII Angel]

Having been around medicine for 10 years, I've noticed that really bright people segregate themselves according to intellect. I wonder if GPA and intellegence factor in more during recruitment at MIT than at other schools. You'd think that with admission requirements being so stringent, everyone would be on equal footing, but i think you'd be amazed at how wide the gap can be! Anyone know if this is the case?

[barnard1897]

Stupid people are everywhere. Some just hide it better. At my private college, known for its Fulbright scholars and top notch admission standards, we actually downplayed the importance of grades in MS because it was more or less assumed everyone had to be bright to survive there--otherwise they'd be transferring someplace else. So what got me was how seemingly bright women with mensa level intelligence could let the deadly mix of perfectionism and low self esteem take them to places that they never should have gone. I saw as much in the way of eating disorders, drug use, sleeping around, and alcoholism as I probably would have at a larger state school. The scary thing was, you knew that these same people who acted like idiots drunk might well be the ones quoted in the Wall Street Journal or publishing in JAMA in a few years!!!

[Low C Sharp]

I went to a peer school, and I don't think the groups there concern themselves much about intellect per se. It really is taken as something of a given. But someone's style of expressing her intellect...that's another matter. I think members of Group A might say that the members of Group B try to act like airheads to impress boys, and Group B would say that Group A members are uptight and have no idea how to have fun.

Looks are another matter too. On my campus, if you guessed who was going to end up in XYZ based on looks and clothes alone, you'd be right a lot more often than you'd be wrong. I know that this kind of pattern is taken for granted at most schools, but at a lot of MIT-type schools, it cuts very hard against the grain, and frankly it plays a big role in the marginalization of NPC sororities. If even one chapter in the system takes only "hot" girls, that's all the rest of the community needs to see to conclude that Greek life is just middle school cliques writ large.
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[bejazd]

Well, that's the great thing about freedom of association. XYZ is free to pick their own members based on any standards they choose. If XYZ wants to pick their members based on their looks and their clothes they can. Hey, they have to live with each other. And anyone who does not want to join a group like that does not have to.

What I like about these posters is that they show that sorority women are multi-faceted, and they are not just giving that concept lip service, they are backing it up with evidence to prove it. Which is what I would expect from brainy MIT women!

[aephi alum]

Originally Posted by AOII Angel

Having been around medicine for 10 years, I've noticed that really bright people segregate themselves according to intellect. I wonder if GPA and intellegence factor in more during recruitment at MIT than at other schools. You'd think that with admission requirements being so stringent, everyone would be on equal footing, but i think you'd be amazed at how wide the gap can be! Anyone know if this is the case?

I can't say anything specific about MS, obviously. But I will say we never saw a first-semester freshman who didn't meet our GPA requirements, simply because they wouldn't have been admitted to MIT in the first place. There were older students who didn't meet the minimum GPA, but they generally self-selected and didn't participate in recruitment because they knew they had to focus on their grades.

So you might theoretically hear something like this after round 1:

"OK, we have 200 PNMs. Who are we inviting back?"
"Well, we can start by cutting any PNMs who don't meet our GPA requirement."
"Done. OK, we still have 200 PNMs..."