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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: very tactful locus chad 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: Cerebral sandwich patrolman 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: very tactful locus chad 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: Cerebral sandwich patrolman 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: very tactful locus chad 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: Cerebral sandwich patrolman 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: very tactful locus chad 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: Vigorous low-t parlour 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: Navy talented boltzmann 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: very tactful locus chad (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: fantasy-prone appetizing senate (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: Umber hairraiser whorehouse (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: excitant onyx haunted graveyard faggot firefighter 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: very tactful locus chad "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: naked rigpig (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: excitant onyx haunted graveyard faggot firefighter 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: very tactful locus chad (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: bossy cruise ship 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: concupiscible chocolate ceo 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: tantric really tough guy (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: very tactful locus chad (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: Floppy pozpig 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: Orchid Digit Ratio 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: Cerebral sandwich patrolman 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: very tactful locus chad 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: Disrespectful stimulating office 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: very tactful locus chad "her boyfriends"
hawt.
oh wait you meant like incel friendzoneds, gotcha. |
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Date: September 23rd, 2018 11:52 PM Author: khaki anal rigor 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: khaki anal rigor 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: Cerebral sandwich patrolman 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: khaki anal rigor 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: Snowy Razzmatazz Bbw Shrine 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: Vigorous low-t parlour 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: Cerebral sandwich patrolman 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: Vigorous low-t parlour 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: Cerebral sandwich patrolman 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: khaki anal rigor 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: Floppy pozpig 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: khaki anal rigor 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: Vigorous low-t parlour 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: territorial roommate 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: khaki anal rigor 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: Cerebral sandwich patrolman 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: khaki anal rigor 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: Cerebral sandwich patrolman 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: khaki anal rigor 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: Marvelous tattoo home 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: khaki anal rigor 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: Marvelous tattoo home 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: khaki anal rigor 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: house-broken startling corn cake 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: territorial roommate state school (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4085094&forum_id=2#36874441) |