Is Caltech as good as MIT?

MIT scores better than Caltech across three of the four indicators in the USA rankings: research, diversity and internationalisation, and employability. However, Caltech outperforms MIT in learning experience, claiming the title of the best school in the USA for learning experience.

Does MIT use affirmative action?

MIT’s Affirmative Action includes: monitoring of employment-related actions to prevent discrimination from occurring or to detect it and eliminate it. efforts to broaden the pool of qualified candidates for job categories in which fewer women and minority group members are employed than are available in the workforce.

Does Caltech care about diversity?

At Caltech, we value diversity and actively support student access, equity, and inclusion. We encourage our students to take advantage of the many resources available on campus.

Does Caltech consider gender?

Caltech: 16 percent admission rate for women, 6 percent for men, a 10-point gap. MIT: 13 percent for women, 6 percent for men, a 7-point gap. Carnegie Mellon: 28 percent for women, 22 percent for men, a 6-point gap. Cornell: 16 percent for women, 12 percent for men, a 4-point gap.

Does Caltech practice race-based affirmative action?

That’s just the way the world works. However, Caltech does not practice race-based affirmative action, so whether you’re White, Black, green, pink, etc. has no bearing on your chance of admission. *Note: I have no legacy at Caltech, parents did not donate one dollar, heterosexual South-Asian male applying as biomedical engineering major.

How hard is it to get into Caltech as a female?

Edit: I don’t mean to push buttons here, but you will have a much easier time getting in to Caltech as a female applying as an engineering major. That’s just the way the world works. However, Caltech does not practice race-based affirmative action, so whether you’re White, Black, green, pink, etc. has no bearing on your chance of admission.

Why is Caltech’s admission policy so single-minded?

Caltech’s single-minded focus on academic excellence in its admission’s policies is no doubt partially due to the fact that its faculty, rather than its professional administrators, determines its admissions standards.

Is Caltech a meritocracy?

Caltech’s third strike in favor of meritocracy involves its indifference to legacy status. Indeed, throughout its history Caltech has never been interested in reaching out in any special way to alumni children, and according to one estimate, less than 2 percent of its current undergraduate students have a parent who attended the university.