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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Imagine complaining about putting Cal Tech on the same "list" as Harvard or MIT. Delusional folks need to get out more.

Imagine complaining about Cal Tech starting out as a technical school, as if the Ivies starting out as clergy schools makes them better.

Cal Tech lacks medical/business/law and graduate schools in many disciplines yet ranks among the best in the US and world on science and engineering research alone.

The student-faculty ratio at Cal Tech is 3:1. It's similar to European research institutes that primarily exists entirely for research and accepts a few undergraduates every year, smaller than most high schools. [/quote]

Let’s just say CalTech is an adopted child of your imaginary list that’s constantly in fear of being kicked out of the imaginary group. Even these CalTech nerds wouldn’t be there had they gotten into Stanford, MIT, Harvard, Yale, Columbia... [/quote]

You are wrong.  Caltech (not CalTech or Cal Tech) is a peer of MIT, both undergrad and grad.  In many fields, Caltech is by far the best place in the country.  JPL was founded because a couple of Caltech students were experimenting with rocket motors, and nearly blew up the labs.  Instead of kicking them out, they gave them a place to experiment away from population.

Caltech seismology lab is world class.  Far better than the MIT or Harvard counterparts.

There are other examples.

Fundamentally, though, I would not want my child to go to Caltech Undergrad.  [b]I would choose a more LAC curriculum.[/quote][/b]

There you go again - what a great school CalTech is blah blah blah - only to admit you would not send your kids there if they can go elsewhere. Same with the poster immediately above you. If his or her kids can go to Harvey Mudd, s/he would not choose CalTech. It’s a highly specialized school, not for those broad minded liberal arts types who have other options. It’s in the league with California Maritime. It’s a highly specialized technical school that is part of the same school system to which Cal State Fullerton belongs. Pay scale shows CalTech is just a notch above what is basically a Cal State vocational school. Schools like Harvard, Princeton, Stanford, Harvey Mudd, on the other hand, are in a different league. [/quote]

Well Stanford is in the Pac10, which is a different league.  And again, it is Caltech not CalTech. I do not know what your problem is with Caltech.  But, I would also chose a LAC over MIT.  It is because I do not think 18 yo's should go to a school that does not have the breadth of curriculum.  Caltech is the best school in the world for many disciplines; it is among the top schools for any field which it focuses on.  But, you don't go to Caltech to study the classics.  And starting salaries are modest because most people at Caltech go on to graduate school and in to academia, which does not pay well.[/quote]

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