Top Student Study

MIT normally does not rank its students. So if you hear that someone graduated “magna cum laude” from MIT you can instantly know that this claim is a lie.

But MIT does occasionally rank students based on grades when it comes to scholarship applications.  During one such ranking I discovered I was the top ranking student in terms of grades in my graduate class.

I maintained a 5.0/5.0 GPA in one of my MIT masters and 4.9/5.0 in my other MIT masters until my very last semester when I had to fly to job interviews and couldn’t attend all my classes.

I achieved these grades while doing a double research load. That is I worked simultaneously for an MIT professor and two Harvard Medical School professors.

I consider myself a professional student/learner and believe that there are definitely techniques that I learned that can also be used by others to improve their grades.