MIT has its set of acceptance mistakes. Many (perhaps even the majority) of those make it through its grind and graduate.
At the end of the day, it is a big, big deal to fail a student. Or to put them on a path to take a core class over. Instead, most professors will give them a barely passing grade simply to be done with them.
By the same token, your "cardinal-direction state school" has a lot of folks works really hard and busting their hump for that 4.0. Sure, you could argue it isn't the same as an MIT 5.0 (yes, MIT's scale goes to 5...), but it's damn sight better than a marginal pass.
There's one exception to this: the apocryphal brilliant and distracted MIT student who can't be bothered to get good grades because they're too busy working on cooler stuff.
I've had the honor of working with a pair of those folks, and it wouldn't have mattered where they went to school. Heck, one of them transferred into MIT from a two year junior college.
MIT has its set of acceptance mistakes. Many (perhaps even the majority) of those make it through its grind and graduate.
At the end of the day, it is a big, big deal to fail a student. Or to put them on a path to take a core class over. Instead, most professors will give them a barely passing grade simply to be done with them.
By the same token, your "cardinal-direction state school" has a lot of folks works really hard and busting their hump for that 4.0. Sure, you could argue it isn't the same as an MIT 5.0 (yes, MIT's scale goes to 5...), but it's damn sight better than a marginal pass.
There's one exception to this: the apocryphal brilliant and distracted MIT student who can't be bothered to get good grades because they're too busy working on cooler stuff.
I've had the honor of working with a pair of those folks, and it wouldn't have mattered where they went to school. Heck, one of them transferred into MIT from a two year junior college.
But that's not who we're talking about here.