WSJ: the Secrets of Elite College Admissions
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Anonymous
"Very different type of prestige". Can you elaborate? It is a STEM prestige, no doubt. In your mind, prestige is foremost a humanities-based honorific? |
Anonymous
T10s are not all need-blind. That is eroding away slowly. Administrations want it, boards are ambivalent at best. |
Anonymous
Tech schools build some of the smartest and most innovative thinkers for hard subjects/STEM (arguably trades). Most other elite schools focus on soft subjects and set you up for any job. Kids want to go to ivies because it’s the most prestigious no matter the discipline. Kids want to go to MIT/CalTech because they’re the best of the best at what they do. |
Anonymous
This post is 100% wrong. The USN T10 are all need blind: Harvard University. Columbia University. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Yale University. Stanford University. University of Chicago. University of Pennsylvania. California Institute of Technology Johns Hopkins University Northwestern (3-way tie for #9) ALL NEED BLIND. With no evidence any of them plan to change. U.S. institutions that are need-blind and meet full demonstrated need for both U.S. and international students There are currently only seven U.S. higher education institutions that are need-blind and meet full demonstrated need for all applicants, including international students.[2] These are: Amherst College[3] Curtis Institute of Music Harvard University Massachusetts Institute of Technology[4] Minerva Schools at KGI Princeton University[5] Yale University[6] U.S. institutions that are need-blind for U.S. applicants and meet full demonstrated need A number of U.S. institutions of higher learning both offer need-blind admissions and meet the full demonstrated need for all domestic students, but are need-aware when it comes to international student admissions. However, all admitted students will have their demonstrated need met. The following schools fall into this category: Barnard College (need-aware for transfer students)[7] Boston College Bowdoin College (need-aware for transfer students)[8] Brown University (need-aware for transfer students)[9] California Institute of Technology Claremont McKenna College Columbia University[10] Cornell University[11] Dartmouth College Davidson College Denison University[12] Duke University[13] Georgetown University[14] Grinnell College[15] Hamilton College[16] Harvey Mudd College[17] Johns Hopkins University[18] Middlebury College Northwestern University Olin College[19] Pomona College[20] Rice University[21] Soka University of America[22] Stanford University Swarthmore College University of Chicago University of Michigan (need-blind for in-state students only) University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill[23] University of Notre Dame University of Pennsylvania (need-blind for Mexican and Canadian students as well)[24] University of Richmond (need-aware for transfer students)[25] University of Southern California[26] University of Virginia[27] Vanderbilt University Vassar College[28][29] Wellesley College Williams College |
Anonymous
At the end of the day, Caltech is just a trade school. It's the best trade school in the world (and has the smartest student body of any school in the US), but it's still a trade school. |
Anonymous
It doesn't belong with MIT. It's more like Olin, a notch above Cal State SLO, California Maritime... |
Anonymous
You're an idiot. |
Anonymous
+1000, assuming posters are real they are idiots. Also you can major in History, Philosophy or PoliSci or other humanities or social sciences at Caltech. "Trade School"? Moron. Yeah at the end of the program the tools are yours to keep! https://www.admissions.caltech.edu/explore/academics/majors-minors |
Anonymous
If their website says so, but in reality you don't go there to major in history, philosophy or polisci. I don't believe it's done, regardless of what their website might say. It shows you really don't know this school. |
Anonymous
What it shows is that you are an idiot who denies the evidence when it is presented directly to your face. |
Anonymous
😆 Lol, what it says is you are an idiot who believes bc internet says so. Don’t believe everything, even if it’s Caltech website. Verify it’s claim. Show me hard evidence showing how many of these majors come out of Caltech. USNews has got it right when it lumped Caltech with JHU. Both are one dimensional. And when compared with all-around solid universities, they are clustered with Northwestern. This seems about right, below Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Columbia, MIT. |
Anonymous
I don't believe it because the internet says so. I believe it because Caltech says so. You are really something else. I do not believe you are a real poster. No one could be that dense. |
Anonymous
Prove me wrong their website is full of it. If what Caltech website says is true, it should be relatively easy for you to prove how many of these majors it produced. |
Anonymous
Prove you wrong? Already did. You're a college flat-earther, just denying evidence right in front of you. |
Anonymous
according to the Cal Tech common data sets, about 2-3% of the degrees awarded each year are in humanities or social sciences. so that's about 5 students a year. |