I wonder if there's also a difference between engineering and non-engineering schools. I tend to agree that at MIT you mostly just want the very best engineers

I wonder if there's also a difference between engineering and non-engineering schools. I tend to agree that at MIT you mostly just want the very best engineers and the more objective the metric, maybe the better. But if I'm looking to educate the best politicians, judges, business people, activists -- I think that I really do care about a lot more than SATs and transcripts. It's funny because I feel like no one has this argument about Cal Tech. They might have affirmative action, but if they didn't everyone seemed to be OK with it.