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I would not focus on a grad school so early. There are a lot of other grad schools that are fantastic. And MIT may not have teachers whose research match what you are interested as well as somewhere else.
Places like Carnegie Mellon, Waterloo, Caltech, Cal, Standford are all as good as, if not better in some respects than MIT. For example, MIT is great for certain types of robotics, as is Carnegie Mellon in other types.
The key is to find a school that has professors that you want to work with.
And RPI is a great undergraduate school, but from what I've heard their graduate program is a hellhole. Not that the teachers and students are bad, just that the atmosphere is really unhelpful.
Oh and lordjeebus, I also know someone that claimed to get into MIT because of wrestling (he was really smart too), but I find that strange considering MIT is dIII and should not be allowed to let someone in for sports.
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