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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Want a school filled with robotics team kids?  Go to Caltech.  That's the beauty of the marketplace.[/quote]

Plenty of these athletic recruits and lots of other admits would get eaten alive at Caltech, MIT, etc.   Unless you are a champion brainiac you will be crushed.[/quote]

Nearly all Ivy students, athletes or not, could not hack it at MIT or CalTech. Those schools are for the truly brilliant, unlike the Ivies. [/quote]

NP:  Your understanding of “brilliance “ is truly limited.  While I don’t doubt that there are lots of brilliant students at the Tech schools that you’ve singled out, there are also brilliant students in many schools and in many fields.  You might not realize how many students turn down Tech schools because they want to stretch their brilliance in academic environments that can support their often wide-ranging academic and creative interests.[/quote]

Okay. You can tell yourself that. The fact remains that while most MIT and CalTech students could excel at the Ivies, the reverse is not true. [/quote]

Sure.  So, support your assertion with some actual data.

I’m specifically interested in knowing how you’ll somehow prove that “most MIT and CalTech students will excel” with required course loads that include humanities, social sciences, and arts courses. Since you’re such a big supporter of Tech focused skills, let’s see your data.  Guessing and your personal unsupported opinion really won’t cut it in science circles. 
It may well be that when you’re dealing with students in the top cohorts that they’re “good enough” —even outside their areas of academic expertise — but since that’s the opposite of what you’ve argued for the Ivy students, some actual scientific data would be nice.
I know I’ve said that three times, but redundancy can be useful.

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Touchy, touchy. [/quote]

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