Why couldn't MIT be more like Caltech?

<p>I found this thread on the MIT board. Figured it might stimulate some interest.</p>

<p><a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=25433%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=25433&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>(And by the title of this thread, I'm not making a personal statement of my preferences. I just named it what the MIT thread was named.:))</p>