<p>You’re certainly right that the ratio of guys to girls at Caltech is higher than at MIT. This may be very important to some people, and I totally understand that being a “deal breaker” for you. That being said, the ratio (which I think right now is roughly 35:65… the last two classes were 38% and 41% female respectively) really doesn’t matter that much to me or most of my friends–or really anyone I know. Of course, you seem to “know” that it matters despite obviously not having the experience of attending Caltech as a student, so my post might be wasted on you. A much bigger problem in terms of the dating pool quality is based on the level of dating experience incoming students have. In my opinion, nerds are nerds and increasing the quantity doesn’t really help that much. One more thing, which I don’t really want to discuss in this thread, but I know it’s going to be brought up–Caltech and MIT have relatively different policies on affirmative action re: women. Most Caltech students (women included) would not trade our stance on AA for more women. </p>
<p>As for your other statement, “MIT >>>>> Caltech”, if you really believe that I encourage you to offer more explanation on the subject. There are certainly reasons to prefer MIT over Caltech (and I would say reasons to prefer Caltech over MIT) but your point is essentially wasted space on the college confidential servers if you don’t bother to justify it. Is it that you believe the academics are better? The culture? What are your specific reasons for feeling this way?</p>