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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]With only 235 students per class and only a fraction of the course offerings of other major research universities, CalTech is an excellent school within its niche.  But it’s ludicrous to say other elite schools are building their classes around the single metric of diversity (it’s not like they are pulling names out of various hats) or that they can’t get the highest caliber/most talented students.  In Harvard’s or Chicago’s or Princeton’s or Yales’ class of 1300-1600 students you can, no doubt, find 235 kids whose stats are identical to CalTech’s class — as well as many other kids for whom CalTech couldn’t compete because it didn’t have the faculty or course offerings they were looking for.  [/quote]

Yes, there are kids that get into those schools, but since these schools give admission to all kinds of "under qualified" students to promote their diversity obsession, it is no longer possible to say that just because a kid got into Harvard, he or she is smart. You can definitely say that about a Caltech Student. [/quote]

“No longer?” You could never have said that about every Harvard kid, LOL!  If anything, Harvard is more meritocratic today than it was 50 years ago.  Re CalTech kids, you can assume they do very well on standardized tests and were quite good at understanding and producing what their HS teachers want.  But we don’t really have finely-calibrated or consistent ways of measuring the comparative intelligence of high-performing HS students.  The most brilliant kids don’t always get the best scores or grades — they see ambiguities and nuances that standardized test writers don’t notice, they think unconventionally and may not have teachers who recognize/appreciate that, etc.  WRT stats, it makes more sense to have a threshhold above which everyone is considered well-qualified rather than to assume you can rank order by the numbers and highest scores = most qualified.  Harvard will certainly bet on kids CalTech wouldn’t — that’s about recognizing there are all sorts of different ways that people stand out, achieve, contribute, and/or become forces to be reckoned with in the world and wanting to have influence on/ties to as many different kinds of leaders as they can.  [/quote]

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