<p>sroll, Olin’s statistics seem unusually disparate: Their 25-75 percentiles for math are 710-800, with a 23% acceptance rate. Caltech with a 20% acceptance rate is 750-800. MIT’s acceptance rate is 16% with 730-800 in math. Some schools are more forgiving than others. It seems in this case that it Olin, MIT, Caltech are, in that order. The most apt comparison to Olin is probably Cooper Union, but I didn’t find statistics for just the engineering school.</p>
<p>The aforementioned schools practice as they do the admissions policies necessary to achieve what they want, be it the smartest kids possible, a collaborative, fresh atmosphere, and a mix of the two.</p>