[fxtentacle]

I believe you should first think about your future work-life balance.

You'll only be a young student once and university is the best time to party, do sports, and work on your social and relationship skills. Many people also meet their spouse during university. Once university is over, or once you're too old to blend in, you will never again in your life have an equally easy time meeting new people.

If you go to MIT, there's a good chance you'll be working super hard and you'll have a lot of incentives to put in some extra work to truly excel and become financially successful. You will most likely also be able to meet and become friends with people who will become influential in the future. But you won't have as much time to goof around with others, especially not if you need to work on the side to finance your university time.

So it's also a trade-off between "social skills" and "work skills".