Thanks for the link.

We are in big trouble on this for many reasons. Imagine a pilot who can't do basic arithmetic or a nurse or even a doctor who can't calculate dosages or carpenters who can't do simple math for construction. I figure the military generally will be getting the lowest of the low. From all this we can see high schools aren't doing their job.

On your situation, I am sorry you faced resource issues but I hope you overcame them. All your posts show you are a capable guy.

The Caltech policy at least when I went to school was to assume basic competency on high school skills, and then the physics department taught calculus because the Tech math department didn't come up to speed quickly enough to be usable in physics. Now, Tech has two tracks in math, and physics(!), one for the slow kids (often the girls, always the PoCs) and one for the more advanced ones (generally white guy nerds). That alone says one can no longer trust a Tech grad to be the best of the best.

I no longer recommend Caltech and tell people, go to MIT.