Studying at MIT is too brain-burning. It is not enough to write answers. You have to learn the principles behind complex problems, and you have to extract formulas from what you have learned before to solve more problems. In short, MIT teaches you how to really learn.
02 University of Chicago
There are the smartest students in the world here. The title of the University of Chicago's annual thesis is famous for making things difficult for "perverts". The admissions officer said that if you don't know where to start the paperwork, you are basically not suitable for the University of Chicago.
03 Rice University
Carnegie Mellon University
Yale University