What's the "next best" school you were admitted to??

Colleges and Universities A-Z California Institute of Technology
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<p>"Since it's destined to be #2 or worse at Harvard's game for a while, does it really make sense for MIT to become widely known for abandoning honestly meritocratic science and engineering-centered admissions (and ceding that crown to Caltech)? Isn't that how MIT made the name it's so famous for in the first place? It seems like a confused strategy to me -- losing the bragging rights of a community based on pure smarts (which it had for a long time) <em>AND</em> having to be crushed by Harvard at the diversity/prestige game.
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<p>1467 average SAT at MIT
Caltech around 1500</p>

<p>40-30 point difference</p>

<p>Come on do you put enough stock in SAT to say that "abandoning honestly meritocratic science and engineering-centered admissions "</p>

<p>Its more of looking for a bit more than Caltech</p>

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<p>I don't think SAT is a very good indicator of student's abilities especially at this level.</p>

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<p>I second that. Who thought up the idea of using SAT's for comparison anyway...?</p>

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<p>"I don't think SAT is a very good indicator of student's abilities especially at this level."
<a href="http://www.collegeboard.com/prod_downloads/about/news_info/cbsenior/yr2003/pdf/table_2.pdf#search='SAT%20raw"&gt;http://www.collegeboard.com/prod_downloads/about/news_info/cbsenior/yr2003/pdf/table_2.pdf#search='SAT%20raw&lt;/a&gt;'&lt;/p>

<p>The only test where 1 questions is worth different values at different ranges, ie 1 wrong anwer is worth 20 at 700 M range and and 10 in lower range</p>

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<p>When it comes down to participants of national olympiads and RSI and whatnot (all the typical stuff in the MIT/Tech applicant), the math SAT is nothing more than a measure of how often they make careless errors. Verbal is a different story, but I don't care much about verbal.</p>

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<p>"When it comes down to participants of national olympiads and RSI and whatnot (all the typical stuff in the MIT/Tech applicant), the math SAT is nothing more than a measure of how often they make careless errors. Verbal is a different story, but I don't care much about verbal."</p>

<p>Yeah, How could you possibly someone believe a person who ha been in a math olympiad with 740 is worse at math than someone with an 800</p>

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<p>G2 - Did you go to RSI?</p>

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<p>No... I actually hardly even know what it is.</p>

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<p>The infamous Research Science Institute of MIT. Extremely selective but looks extremely well on for college apps.
<a href="http://www.cee.org/rsi/index.shtml%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.cee.org/rsi/index.shtml&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>"Yeah, How could you possibly someone believe a person who ha been in a math olympiad with 740 is worse at math than someone with an 800"
Are you being sarcastic? Because yes, I do think that a math olympiad is worth much more than 60 points on the SATs. When asked how people with perfect scores on the SATs got those scores, oftentimes the answer is that they spent hours and hours doing practice tests which I find to be quite a waste of time especially on the math section. The SAT only covers algebra. That time could have been better spent learning something else such as Calculus. I've been taking math classes at UPenn, partial diff eqs and basic complex analysis was the last thing I did, and doing well in them but my chances of a perfect math score on the SAT are fairly low. In fact, I took it twice and didn't get a perfect score either time.</p>

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<p>"Yeah, How could you possibly someone believe a person who ha been in a math olympiad with 740 is worse at math than someone with an 800"
i was not being sarcastic</p>

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<p>For everyone taking 2bad4u's posts seriously;</p>

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<p>am i supposed to take you seriously you come out of nowhere and start calling people names. are you in kindergarten or do you just have the mental capacity of a child</p>

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<p>LOL sorry but im not writing a PhD thesis hence i dont really care about any of those things on an online forum, that is such a weak attack</p>

<p>Your quoting is not clever at all</p>

<p>If all new Caltech students are like you, Caltech's future doesnt look very bright.<br>
How could anyone believe SAT math trumps olympiad math, your College must be bigger defenders of the SAT than any school in the Nation if the majority of Caltech holds your view. Students like G2msus sadly have to make up for students like you</p>

<p>BTW i find it funny you choose not to respond to Ben Jones comment on the other thread</p>

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<p>In fairness, I don't think ColorOfPain is a Caltech student.</p>

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<p>I don't believe this, nor have I stated my opinions on this topic anywhere on this board. </p>

<p>If you can find an instance otherwise, please direct me to it.</p>

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<p>The level of intellect in this thread has fallen quite a bit, I observe. I don't even know who's trying to assert what anymore.</p>

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<p>I believe I misread one of 2bad4u's original posts which is why I went on a big SAT rant. I still stand by everything I said though. Apologies.</p>

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<p>"
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Originally Posted by IDIOT
How could anyone believe SAT math trumps olympiad math,</p>

<p>I don't believe this, nor have I stated my opinions on this topic anywhere on this board.</p>

<p>If you can find an instance otherwise, please direct me to it."</p>

<p>You wrote "For everyone taking 2bad4u's posts seriously;"</p>

<p>where pretty much all my posts have been in relation "How could anyone believe SAT math trumps olympiad math,"
unless you misread my posts like dLo which is fine (or have some type of personal vendetta against me )you must believe that statement but in either case you still dont have much of right to kill a discussion by name calling.</p>

<p>"In fairness, I don't think ColorOfPain is a Caltech student."
half true,from previous posts he seems to be class of 09'</p>

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<p>Sorry for the late post. Wasn't rejected by anyplace, though. Gave me great pleasure to turn down MIT, as a matter of fact!</p>

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<p>I think ben is correct.</p>