We don't take all the top prizes---not even close to a majority of them---but your criticism is valid and appropriate and well-taken. It does sound awfully elitist, which I had not intended. As I said, the fact is that Uni has tremendous structural advantages over other schools in the small division, even over other highly selective ones. I think the 700 division is a much better and much fairer fit for a school that gets to admit competitively from an extremely strong applicant pool; that's why we were there last year. But now there's money on the line.
Yes it does.
We don't take all the top prizes---not even close to a majority of them---but your criticism is valid and appropriate and well-taken. It does sound awfully elitist, which I had not intended. As I said, the fact is that Uni has tremendous structural advantages over other schools in the small division, even over other highly selective ones. I think the 700 division is a much better and much fairer fit for a school that gets to admit competitively from an extremely strong applicant pool; that's why we were there last year. But now there's money on the line.