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What a nice silly thread to come back to.
Obviously MIT is becoming more Harvard-like and silly in its admissions. They still admit the very top academic superstars to sweep the Putnam, but also admit a whole bunch of academically weak students (by Caltech standards) for balance reasons. That's not bad but it's true. Let's swallow that and get over it. In between those academically weak admitted students and the Putnam superstars, there are lots of good and sometimes even superb kids who get rejected while academically weaker kids get in. That makes people mad and drives threads like this one.
To pebbles -- it is possible to rank people at least coarsely by intelligence in a way that splits MIT students into a few distinct groups. Take off the debating hat for a second -- do you really disagree with me? Do you think the average URM admit is intellectually at the level of the Putnam winners?
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