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Anonymous wrote:I only know of athletic recruits. The class is small, so a good percentage of students are athletes. They don’t really lower academic standards for athletes, but the needed ability isn’t that high - some accepted didn’t even make varsity at their high school.

That’s totally dependent on the sport. Men’s soccer, for instance, has a new coach who is ambitious. They are recruiting mls next level players. I know an athletic recruit that is going there next year. 800 sat math, 4.0; ap calculus in 8h grade, math competitions, research with two professors at a relatively prestigious state university, name on published paper, 3 different ap physics classes, etc.

Probably…their basketball team hasn’t won a game in years and their baseball team’s 10 wins (and 30 losses) matched their record high number from the late 1960s.

For baseball, coach said nearly 1/2 of each class’s players are walk-ons. They get accepted on their own and then play. All played before and many are decent…this isn’t randoms getting to play.

Doing the math - the total count is about 1000 (google search not exact). Given 16(both Men and Women counted separately) varsity sports - Doesn't that mean the number of athletes are greater than the non-athletes?

Caltech is really a jock school masquerading as an elite tech school.

Brilliant analysis! Not flawed at all. You only have to be on campus for five minutes to realize it’s totally a jock school. Which means it cannot be an elite tech school.