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pebbles, I'm not sure what you mean by a "difference of goals." MIT and Caltech are both "institutes of technology" are they not? To most people, the only thing that matters in a college is reliable grad school placement - not my words, but the words of one poster on an Ivy thread.
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I mean that because the vast majority of caltech students are into pure sciences and the majority of MIT students are going into engineering, academic goals differ and placement into grad school is not necessarily a good point of comparison. (most engineering grads don't go to grad school right away, is what my impression was, where as an undergrad degree in math/physics with no phd is pretty much a deathtrap)