Caltech class sizes and the "Rule of 150"

[InquilineKea]

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It’s neither highly person nor are there informally enforced rules.</p>

<p>I don’t understand the rest of your post; you argued that a Caltech House followed this rule, I listed why I’m certain it doesn’t, and now you’re arguing what, precisely? That you want to continue applying despite it failing both listed properties by a significant margin?

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<p>I’m arguing that the Honor Code’s enforceability may be a result of the rule (even if the rule wouldn’t describe Caltech as comprehensively as it would describe an insulated community). Now, do you think that the Honor Code would work on a larger institution like MIT or an Ivy?
This brings us back to the question: well, does it work? And I think it does. Given that Caltech doesn’t seem to have too many problems with granting students special privileges - if it had too many problems, then it would have no choice but to discontinue the Honor Code. </p>

<p>Besides, other posters here (SteelPangolin, etc) have said that the houses do make it easier for normally asocial people to socialize, and some of those people take the offer up.</p>