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Caltech is an unusually focused school. If your only goal is to churn out future STEM PhDs, admitting based on an objective math test is probably not a bad appr
by ForHackernews 8y ago
Caltech is an unusually focused school. If your only goal is to churn out future STEM PhDs, admitting based on an objective math test is probably not a bad approach.
Harvard's goal, traditionally, has been to [re]produce the ruling class of America, and their admissions criteria are geared accordingly.
- trhway 8y agoas a math grad myself i wish the ruling class consisted of Caltech and similar math/physics/other "real" sciences graduates :)
- wycs 8y agoSee Singapore for such a country.
- paulsutter 8y agoOver the coming decades, my bet would be on - Stanford to produce the ruling class of America, and for - Harvard to produce the ruling class of Mad Men season 1 (just based on the criteria in the article)