2020 Caltech Discussion Thread

Because why not? Every other school has a thread of some form :slight_smile:

ED and RD are all welcome! (international RD student here)

I wonder if it’ll be the 5th or the 12th

Why 5 or the 12? Also, how do they deliver decisions?

I bet it’ll be the 12th, the 5th seems too early

It’s always on a Saturday. In years past it has been as early as the 6th, 7th, and 8th, usually the week before MIT (also on a Saturday). Last year it was on something like the 13th iirc, same day as MIT. That leads me to believe it’ll be on the 12th this year I think. Probably because more applicants

This thread is surprisingly quiet…
Is everybody EA applicants? Any RD?

I applied EA

EA. And yeah the Caltech board seems dead compared to previous years

@tutututututuru I mean nobody ever seems to post to Caltech. But MIT id much more popular…

@EvenfallsWolf Yeah I know. I thought most people who would be interested in MIT would also be interested in Caltech, so it’s a bit curious.

Hi, another fellow EA applicant here! I’m so curious as to whether decisions will come out this Saturday or next… I don’t believe Caltech will email us until the day of, from what I’ve seen in previous years?

@allista I’m cautiously optimistic for this saturday, but I have a feeling it’ll be next saturday, to be honest. We might find out the day before, or even tomorrow, that the results are going to be released on saturday.

In potentially less than 48 hours we will know.

I don’t know why I’m getting myself hyped for probable deferral/rejection. Can’t help it!

@tutututututuru And they should post on the website by tomorrow night if they’re actually releasing them on Saturday, right? Wow, I really want them to come out this week; I don’t think I can take another week of waiting lol

Why do you think results will come out this week?

@Ballerina016 They’re usually the week before MIT. It’s been as early as Saturday the 6th in the past. It seems to always be on a Saturday. Thus the 5th is a logical assumption. That said, last year they broke their trend of being a week earlier than MIT, and released on the same day (the 13th). Whether or not that was an anomaly remains to be seen.

@allista I think they might. I read some threads and it seemed that some people had been taken unawares to it, and they just got e-mailed when the results came out. I could be wrong/misremembering though. They definitely have posted it on their website in the past before, though. That said, I don’t know where they would on this new site, like where on the page they’d put it. Ahhh

Yeah, the new admissions website looks really nice, but it’s pretty annoying to navigate. I guess we’ll just have to wait and see tomorrow!

Last year it was posted at 4:20 p.m. on the friday the day before.

I’m also applying EA. Excited (and nervous) to hear back from Caltech soon! I hope it’s tomorrow, but at the same time, I don’t.