<p>There's still 8.01X... I had a friend take it this year.</p>
<p>Anyways, ben, we're championing for two kinds of people. You're worried the more privileged (education-wised) might feel bad (and are thus comforting them), and I'm worried the less privileged might feel bad (and am thus reassuring them). That's all. If I'm defensive about 8.012 it's because it's the best overall class I have taken so far in my life. Of course I'm not banking all my physics knowledge on it (as I'm struggling in 8.022 and fully expect to be flattened by quantum next year), and I sure didn't ace the class. Caltech probably has classes equivalent to 8.012/22 for your freshmen as well, I'm making no assumptions about, nor attacks on, the strength of your curriculum or the breadth of your knowledge.</p>