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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I wonder how many of the agitators are EECS majors.

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It's like when those sit-ins were happening at princeton - you know the vast majority of those never had to take a class in Fine or Jadwin.

Schools deserve what they get for not following the caltech model of admissions. You never hear of these things happening there - for a reason. [/quote]

What's the caltech model of admissions?[/quote]

pretty much pure merit. no legacy status, no athletic recruits, no pandering to race hustlers. The development type kids also don't want to go there - not fun enough.

[quote] Perhaps the most striking difference from all other elite universities — including institutions like MIT and the University of Chicago which forgo athletic recruitment — is Caltech’s complete indifference to racial balancing. In a state and a region of the country with the largest Hispanic population, Caltech’s entering freshmen class in 2008 was less than 6 percent Hispanic (13 out of 236). The unwillingness to lower standards for a larger black representation is even more striking — less than 1 percent (2/236) of Caltech’s 2008 entering freshmen were listed as “non-Hispanic black”. This “underrepresentation” of blacks and Hispanics, of course, was more than made up for by the huge “overrepresentation” of Asians. Only 4 percent of the U.S. population, Asians made up a whopping 40 percent of the incoming freshmen class in 2008, a slightly larger proportion than the 39 percent figure for whites. Applicants to Caltech are clearly seen as representing only themselves and their own individual merit and achievement, not their race or their ethnic group. As a professor at Caltech who has taught there for many years explained to me in an email, “We try, like our competitors, very, very hard to find, recruit, and nurture underrepresented minorities but we won’t bend our standards.”[/quote]

[quote]Caltech’s third strike in favor of meritocracy involves its indifference to legacy status.[/quote]

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This is absolutely how it should be. [/quote]

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