<p>rlaqhdus, its ok. Have you looked at Cooper Union? I heard they waive the tuition to all their admitted students. Poor or rich, no disscrimination, as long as you match their ‘merit’.</p>
<p>IMO, those ivies they are famous on politics, humanities, etc. can afford emphasize AA, ‘diversity’ in their admission process. After all their goal is to educate future ‘pillars’ of society. And a society consists all type of races and classes. But for an institution focus on excelence of science and engineer can’t afford practice AA in their admission process, they might as well soon lost their science engineer ‘prestige’.</p>
<p>And since Caltech is such a small comunity aside from the ‘merit’ they also looking for if the applicants can fit into the comunity and has the ability to take the course load. And IMO they are ture to their words…I still remember during one caltech info session I attended, when asked how is the course load at caltech, the admission office replied outright “it is the most heavy ones. If you can’t take it, don’t apply.” … never had I heard such comment from any admission office in a recruiting info session from any colleges.</p>