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Originally Posted by Pebbles You'd think, though, that with such faulty admissions policies, MIT would cease to be such a math/science powerhouse... its blatantly weak student body really should have no business sweeping the Putnam competition. |
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Originally Posted by ivyaccepted Well clearly there are still lots of brilliant kids at MIT. But there could be a lot more. |
Read what the OP said Pebbles.
While I don't agree that MIT Admissions have become a Complete Joke, I do agree that if a college favors certain applicants than it will have a less talented student body. By favoring applicants and not awarding spots in a class based solely off merit, you will inevitably have a "weaker" class. Of course there are positives in an admissions process like MIT's, but one has to judge whether or not these positives ("Increased Diversity", Better Male:Female ratio, and others) make up for a less "talented" student body.
MIT definitely has an extremely talented student body, I'm not arguing that. Even though it has one of smartest student bodies, the OP is just expressing his opinion that he thinks the positives of a less merit based admissions policy don't justify straying away from solely merit based admissions policy. I agree with him here
, but I wouldn't go so far as to call MIT admissions a complete joke. After all who doesn't like a good M/F ratio?