<p>ok, so waaaaaay back sakky said "The point is, if MIT has managed to build some strong social science undergrad majors in a relatively short period of time, surely Caltech can do the same. "</p>
<p>and as you discussed later, yes it can, but no, it doesn’t want to. and you know what? i wouldn’t apply to caltech if it did. sakky you seem not to understand that caltech is a specific school, the only in the US from the top top schools, which doesn’t want to be a sell out, and it actually does what it wants and does it good. caltech pool of applicants being small is a great thing, because it’s already self selective (not like harvards 30k+ students, which have 50% of students applying because it’s harvard, or MIT which is becoming harvard) and if you ask me it’s better this way… opening a caltech’s version of sloan school would attract more applicants to caltech which were never initially caltech targets. ok, it would offer more options for students which are already go there, graduation rates would be higher blabla, but grrrr, why did those people decide to go to caltech anyway? why didn’t they choose harvard or mit or whatever if they were unsure about their love for science? if you bite more then you can chew, it’s your mistake live with it. don’t make others suffer by spending money instead on new labs and equipment (for those 88% that do graduate) on media center or who knows what (for those 12% which are idiots)…</p>
<p>there’s always some debate about caltech not having enough applicants, enough big rate of enrolled ppl, enough majors, enough departments, not being enough commercialized… i say screw that! we don’t need ppl who want to go to caltech because it’s prestige or who want to go to caltech so they could finish an english major!</p>
<p>maybe i missed the subject, dunno, but i hate those “who’s better mit or caltech”, why does this why doesn’t that… bla bla. caltech is what it is and that is that. love it hate it, whatever, but don’t say it should change “because everyone does/has that”. normal is bornig :P</p>