<p>Kaman…I am just a HS senior who has been somewhat lucky in
being accepted EA to both MIT and Caltech. </p>
<p>I did not find Olin inferior or superior to MIT or Caltech but I found it did
not fit my needs hence I did not bother to send in an application. There are
a number of folks where I live however who were deffered/rejected at
MIT who are pursuing Olin at this point wholeheartedly. </p>
<p>Would an alternative hypothesis for the orignal question raised be that there
are a lot more people unsuited to Olin who are applying to Olin
comparable to bad-fit-applicants applying to MIT/Caltech?</p>