Which university has more intelligent students? Harvard or MIT?

[Bornstarch]

Which university do you think has more intelligent students?

Harvard lost its stock by putting more effort into diversifying students and kids who are "internet famous" like David Hogg rather than taking it high IQ people. MIT is doing the same thing, but not nearly as bad.

MIT or Harvard?

 

[Zer]

Which one does she go to?

 

[mixmastermo]

I thought Princeton was the top Ivy League school for the past few years now..

 

[DaleBoca]

Which one does she go to?

Brazzers University.

 

[minute bull]

Pornographic Beauty U?

Link me a video with the hastily improvised thumbnail, Starch.

 

[jx820]

I'd guess MIT as a STEM oriented school would probably require a focus on pure intelligence.

Harvard is probably equally if not more focused on academia, potential, and leadership.

 

[ineverpost]

I'd guess MIT as a STEM oriented school would probably require a focus on pure intelligence.

Harvard is probably equally if not more focused on academia, potential, and leadership.

pure intelligence is Harvard. The smartest people are fully capable of doing STEM but they pursue the avenue that nets them the most money which is not always STEM. Harvard produces the most successful entrepreneurs and business leaders.

 

[Bornstarch]

pure intelligence is Harvard. The smartest people are fully capable of doing STEM but they pursue the avenue that nets them the most money which is not always STEM. Harvard produces the most successful entrepreneurs and business leaders.

The most intelligent people are scientists like Einstein and Nikola Tesla. Businessmen like Jeff Bezos and Dalton are nowhere near the same IQ bracket.

 

[mixmastermo]

pure intelligence is Harvard. The smartest people are fully capable of doing STEM but they pursue the avenue that nets them the most money which is not always STEM. Harvard produces the most successful entrepreneurs and business leaders.

I was actually going to post something very similar.

You could be in the top 1% of engineers ever but if you can't communicate the value of your ideas you're honestly not much better off than a data entry clerk.

To be truly successful you need to be well rounded, be able to navigate difficult situations, people, and conversations. That requires serious dedication, patience, and different kinds of intelligence.

 

[BenderIsGreat]

Neither anymore. Diversity for the win

 

[TankAbbott4Eva]

We had a guest MIT lecturer during my undergrad (engineering), she seemed smart I guess.

 

[TankAbbott4Eva]

Which university do you think has more intelligent students?

Harvard lost its stock by putting more effort into diversifying students and kids who are "internet famous" like David Hogg rather than taking it high IQ people. MIT is doing the same thing, but not nearly as bad.

MIT or Harvard?

 

[Brampton_Boy]

I think it depends on how you choose to define intelligence.

As others have pointed out, MIT specializes in quantitative disciplines, which, all other things being equal, attracts people with the highest IQs. However, conventional measures of IQ often ignore social and emotional measures, which are better predictors of overall success.

I think Harvard is likely to produce more entrepreneurs, innovators and leaders, while MIT is going to produce better researchers and scientists.

Somebody once characterized the difference as a Harvard grad will own the company, and will hire MIT grads to do the work (I'm paraphrasing).

Both are top notch institutions, so graduates from either are likely to be extremely capable.

 

[j123]

I don't know how really it is, but growing up MIT was always seen more respected due to STEM focused. Harvard I always thought was just some rich ppl school any oligarch can pay their way to

 

[aerius]

I thought Princeton was the top Ivy League school for the past few years now..

I'd agree. Then again, I married a Princeton graduate so I might be somewhat biased.

Somebody once characterized the difference as a Harvard grad will own the company, and will hire MIT grads to do the work (I'm paraphrasing).

The way I heard it was something as follows: If you want to be filthy rich and own a company, go to a good business school and get an MBA, then hire the grads from the good science & engineering schools to work for you. And generally speaking, it's true.

 

[jx820]

pure intelligence is Harvard. The smartest people are fully capable of doing STEM but they pursue the avenue that nets them the most money which is not always STEM. Harvard produces the most successful entrepreneurs and business leaders.

Einstein and Oppenheimer didn't give a hot running shit about what career earns them the most money. Christopher Langan is a horse rancher, and worked in bars most of his life. Kim Ung-Yong studied civil engineering.

30 years ago I'd probably have agreed with you. Today MIT is highly competitive for brilliant students, and people more concerned with the sciences than with prestige are favoring places like MIT

 

[ineverpost]

The most intelligent people are scientists like Einstein and Nikola Tesla. Businessmen like Jeff Bezos and Dalton are nowhere near the same IQ bracket.

They are absolutely as smart or smarter than Einstein. Who knows what Albert Einstein would have done had he grown up in a world where you can make billions off of finding new ways to exploit the tax code. Different world.

 

[D3THRONED]

Easily MIT

 

[NoGoodNamesLeft]

I vote for harvrd

 

[Renard]

MIT. Harvard loses by default by virtue of having a lot of joke programs, e.g. business administration, social studies, women studies, theatre, religious studies, etc. MIT has mostly hard sciences where you do need good cognitive skills to understand and manipulate the concepts at play.

"Intelligence" isn't a subjective concept; IQ is your general processing power (g-factor) - assessed by compounding your scores in multiple different facets (verbal, spatial, working memory, reasoning, etc). So when people inject concepts like "leadership" or "social skills" in a discussion about intelligence, they don't understand what intelligence is. You could say someone is intelligent BUT lacks x or y, but those random concepts don't fall under the banner of intelligence. Someone doesn't lose IQ points because they're unathletic or can't talk to girls - not how it works.