[ForHackernews]

Caltech is an unusually focused school. If your only goal is to churn out future STEM PhDs, admitting based on an objective math test is probably not a bad approach.

Harvard's goal, traditionally, has been to [re]produce the ruling class of America, and their admissions criteria are geared accordingly.

[paulsutter]

Over the coming decades, my bet would be on

- Stanford to produce the ruling class of America, and for

- Harvard to produce the ruling class of Mad Men season 1

(just based on the criteria in the article)

[trhway]

as a math grad myself i wish the ruling class consisted of Caltech and similar math/physics/other "real" sciences graduates :)

[wycs]

See Singapore for such a country.