How Caltech selects its students

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<p>I generally don’t rib people about typos or grammar on an online forum, but it’s really hard to bite my tongue when people write something like the sentence above. ;)</p>

<p>Badly written manuals are generally due to bad translations, the writers not having a strong command of English, or the writing being farmed out to poorly paid hacks. That’s generally not Caltech (or MIT, I wager) students. Those folks on the whole can write very, very well.</p>