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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Can anyone explain why nearly all the Putnam top 100 scorers are from MIT? Why aren’t the top students more evenly distributed among Princeton, Harvard, Chicago, Caltech, etc?[/quote]

MIT specifically selects students who will be able to win Putnam awards every year. They don't look at students who are not in that category. 
Caltech has been playing the admissions game for some time now, which is why you'll see that they don't accept students who have the competition-capability only. (I really have serious doubts about Caltech because they played to get their yield at a higher level. Read the prof. letter published in 2023). 
Princeton, on the other hand, will accept a non-competition expert in place of a competition expert. (As a counselor, I have first-hand experience with this.) 
UChicago, we all know their marketing gimmick. (Do they really need that if they are known as the super elite?)
Harvard, they'll discard the math kid if the parents are not a legacy. Known fact![/quote]

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