Harvard > MIT ?

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The Putnam is hard enough that the engineering, science, and even physics majors are irrelevant to the outcome of the competition–its very rare anyone other than a straight math major would get in the top 50-60. When you compare the top 5, top 10, top 50 scores on the Putnam, MIT has had more than Harvard since the turn of the century. MIT just chooses its 3-person team poorly.

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<p>Thats just because they have far more kids taking it (think about the relative sizes of math kids at Harvard vs MIT). The fact of matter is they have fewer kids winning the thing because they attract fewer of the top math students. Why, I dont know.</p>