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Is there any school in the world with smarter students than Caltech?
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Date: September 23rd, 2018 6:38 PM Author: Primrose nowag Can't really think of one. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4085094&forum_id=2#36871192) |
Date: September 23rd, 2018 6:40 PM Author: insanely creepy resort certainly not in the US (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4085094&forum_id=2#36871205) |
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Date: September 23rd, 2018 6:42 PM Author: Primrose nowag I don't think anywhere, really. Only a few countries have elite universities, the US being one.
Oxbridge probably closest but still not there. |
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Date: September 23rd, 2018 6:45 PM Author: insanely creepy resort i wouldn't even put oxbridge in the conversation (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4085094&forum_id=2#36871252) |
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Date: September 23rd, 2018 6:47 PM Author: Primrose nowag Pretty much leaves out any foreign possibilities then. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4085094&forum_id=2#36871263) |
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Date: September 23rd, 2018 6:53 PM Author: insanely creepy resort there must be small tech schools in europe with smarter students than oxbridge, no? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4085094&forum_id=2#36871323) |
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Date: September 23rd, 2018 6:55 PM Author: Primrose nowag maybe, idk. a lot of countries that have a reputation for having smart people and good STEM (i.e. Germany) have relatively mediocre universities. so there might not be as many elite tech schools as one might think.
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Date: September 23rd, 2018 11:40 PM Author: Narrow-minded nursing home Yes. Ecole Polytechnique for one. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4085094&forum_id=2#36874247) |
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Date: September 23rd, 2018 6:41 PM Author: Electric Crimson Shrine Scourge Upon The Earth i'm considering a RISD forcememe, maybe i should kick it off here (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4085094&forum_id=2#36871213) |
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Date: September 23rd, 2018 6:46 PM Author: Primrose nowag (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4085094&forum_id=2#36871254) |
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Date: September 24th, 2018 12:05 AM Author: bateful wrinkle (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4085094&forum_id=2#36874504) |
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Date: September 24th, 2018 12:20 AM Author: cerebral zombie-like school cafeteria gaping (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4085094&forum_id=2#36874644) |
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Date: September 23rd, 2018 6:41 PM Author: Beta parlour internal respiration Tons. Lmao at maths smarts being anything. O I add numbers but can't even color coordinate (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4085094&forum_id=2#36871215) |
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Date: September 23rd, 2018 6:45 PM Author: Primrose nowag "Tons"
lol yeah, tons of schools with better than 1540-1600 SAT range students.
"Lmao at maths smarts being anything"
right, having long-winded debates about WHERE DO WE DRAW THE LINE is clearly intellectually superior.
yfwgi. |
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Date: September 23rd, 2018 6:46 PM Author: Talking bright round eye office (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4085094&forum_id=2#36871258) |
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Date: September 23rd, 2018 6:48 PM Author: Beta parlour internal respiration AH FRAMEEEE!! (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4085094&forum_id=2#36871271) |
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Date: September 23rd, 2018 6:50 PM Author: Primrose nowag (kike who thinks math/engineering is "prole" and that reading useless legal scholarship is the mark of an intellectual) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4085094&forum_id=2#36871298) |
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Date: September 23rd, 2018 11:55 PM Author: irate stubborn hominid community account yech, i hate kikes (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4085094&forum_id=2#36874402) |
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Date: September 23rd, 2018 6:41 PM Author: Godawful Psychic Associate Stanford (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4085094&forum_id=2#36871219) |
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Date: September 23rd, 2018 6:42 PM Author: comical stage kitty cat (Stanford English major) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4085094&forum_id=2#36871224) |
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Date: September 23rd, 2018 6:53 PM Author: Primrose nowag (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4085094&forum_id=2#36871324) |
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Date: September 23rd, 2018 6:42 PM Author: Appetizing site crotch IIT (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4085094&forum_id=2#36871221) |
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Date: September 23rd, 2018 6:45 PM Author: multi-colored citrine stain Toxic cloud of duck sauce covers this thread more than the one on Caltech's campus (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4085094&forum_id=2#36871244) |
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Date: September 23rd, 2018 6:46 PM Author: insanely creepy resort you take that back (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4085094&forum_id=2#36871257) |
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Date: September 23rd, 2018 6:47 PM Author: Primrose nowag risten here, (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4085094&forum_id=2#36871268) |
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Date: September 23rd, 2018 6:47 PM Author: high-end aquamarine really tough guy point i knew a girl who went to Caltech and she said it was way harder than she ever expected and she had to get her boyfriends to do her physics homework. not flame. she was super smart too. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4085094&forum_id=2#36871261) |
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Date: September 23rd, 2018 6:48 PM Author: Primrose nowag "her boyfriends"
hawt.
oh wait you meant like incel friendzoneds, gotcha. |
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Date: September 23rd, 2018 11:52 PM Author: Insane infuriating orchestra pit I know two people who flamed out of Caltech and had to transfer to other schools like HYPS (not flame) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4085094&forum_id=2#36874360) |
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Date: September 23rd, 2018 11:56 PM Author: Insane infuriating orchestra pit i know someone who had a 1600 SAT, like 15 5s on AP exams and college math courses who got a 3.0 in math/physics at Caltech.
lots of people burn out there |
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Date: September 23rd, 2018 11:59 PM Author: insanely creepy resort lol my wife got a 1600 on the SATs and 5 on every AP test she took. she's certainly not smart enough for caltech. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4085094&forum_id=2#36874442) |
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Date: September 24th, 2018 12:00 AM Author: Insane infuriating orchestra pit yeah, that's just the average student
the smartest kids there are like legit geniuses - international physics olympiad team finalist, etc. also a lot of these kids are depressed and killselves |
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Date: September 23rd, 2018 6:59 PM Author: Floppy becky University of Tokyo (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4085094&forum_id=2#36871369) |
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Date: September 23rd, 2018 11:38 PM Author: Narrow-minded nursing home It's in decline, and they lose the vast majority of cross-admits to H, S and M.
However, the bottom 25% of Caltech is way smarter than the bottom 25% of H, S and M. |
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Date: September 23rd, 2018 11:43 PM Author: insanely creepy resort 50th percentile at caltech likely smarter than 75th+ percentile at harvard, no? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4085094&forum_id=2#36874276) |
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Date: September 23rd, 2018 11:46 PM Author: Narrow-minded nursing home Yeah probably.
But it's kind of a weird comparison due to the limited majors offered at Caltech. If you compared the Caltech student body to the Harvard student body who are in the majors available at Caltech (math, sciences, engineering), then Harvard (or Stanford or MIT or Princeton) might win.
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Date: September 23rd, 2018 11:47 PM Author: insanely creepy resort yeah, maybe. harvard's top 10 percent or so is pretty fucking smart.
the bottom ten percent, though, is basketball players and basketball americans, which caltech doesn't have |
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Date: September 23rd, 2018 11:53 PM Author: Insane infuriating orchestra pit Isnt HYPS like 50% AA and legacy admits? I read somewhere that Princeton used to admit like 33% legacy as recent as a few years ago
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Date: September 23rd, 2018 11:56 PM Author: Appetizing site crotch how does this work? do relative dumbs graduate from the same classes as the super smarts? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4085094&forum_id=2#36874408) |
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Date: September 23rd, 2018 11:56 PM Author: Insane infuriating orchestra pit i guess, i think the curves are pretty generous there - gentleman B's so it's pretty easy to get a 3.0 at least (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4085094&forum_id=2#36874419) |
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Date: September 23rd, 2018 11:56 PM Author: Narrow-minded nursing home Yeah but I don't think very many of them are hard science majors.
Also many HYPS legacies are smart.
I think only H, MIT and Caltech are really in the conversation of "smartest student bodies", and even then, again, you have to compare like-for-like, department by department, because H has lots of departments to dump the dumbs into, MIT has a few, and Caltech has none.
If you just limit the comparison to the departments offered by Caltech, I think H/M probably win on average and certainly at the high end, since they dominate cross-admits against Caltech. |
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Date: September 23rd, 2018 11:56 PM Author: Passionate tank Princeton sure isn't 100% geniuses that's for sure. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4085094&forum_id=2#36874420) |
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Date: September 23rd, 2018 11:57 PM Author: Insane infuriating orchestra pit also arguably the douchiest students by far
don't think ive ever met a single Princeton grad I've liked (except maybe one)...awful snobs even if they are prole. seems like a terrible school to go to tbh |
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Date: September 23rd, 2018 11:58 PM Author: insanely creepy resort probably something pushing on that figure, though there are lots of very smart athletes and lots of very smart legacies. just because said students didn't have to go through the admissions lottery doesn't tell us as much as you might think. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4085094&forum_id=2#36874436) |
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Date: September 24th, 2018 12:01 AM Author: Insane infuriating orchestra pit whatever, still means they are dumber/less impressive than the rest IMO (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4085094&forum_id=2#36874466) |
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Date: September 24th, 2018 12:04 AM Author: insanely creepy resort than caltech? definitely, at least if we're comparing the average student.
but top end at harvard might win out, even when compared to similar students at caltech. |
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Date: September 24th, 2018 12:05 AM Author: Insane infuriating orchestra pit i guess we can see how many international physics olympiads go to caltech v. harvard, etc.
anyone above avg intelligence can grind their way to a 1600 SAT, but it takes a genius to make it in physics on an international level |
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Date: September 23rd, 2018 11:44 PM Author: heady clear idea he suggested MIT (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4085094&forum_id=2#36874283) |
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Date: September 23rd, 2018 11:54 PM Author: Insane infuriating orchestra pit nah MIT does AA, Caltech doesnt (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4085094&forum_id=2#36874387) |
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Date: September 24th, 2018 12:19 AM Author: heady clear idea he suggested I think Caltech does do outreach to minority students and encourages them to apply, while maybe not going as far as some other peer schools. But they look at the numbers and actively court minority students.
They also had a very high suicide rate for years, I think due to the level of pressure in the school. That was obviously destructive, so they instituted pass/fail. What's the point of getting the top tier talent if they become so demoralized they kill themselves? All policies are more nuanced than what they may seem on the surface. |
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Date: September 24th, 2018 12:22 AM Author: Insane infuriating orchestra pit they've had pass/fail for the first two quarters for decades.....
every other quarter is normal curved grades, not sure what you're talking about
also the core classes are hard as fuck - way harder than MIT or HYPS |
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Date: September 23rd, 2018 11:49 PM Author: Aromatic duck-like brunch Ga Tech (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4085094&forum_id=2#36874331) |
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Date: September 23rd, 2018 11:58 PM Author: Passionate tank state school (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4085094&forum_id=2#36874441) |