<p>Can you post the names of the Axline recipients so that I can see if I got one? Or at least tell me whether or not I got one? I was admitted EA, so I most certainly won't be getting one with a decision letter.</p>
<p>You will certainly still get a letter if you get an Axline, though it won't be a decision letter. Even if I had the list in front of me, I couldn't think of a much faster way to get a bunch of angry administrators to gnaw off my toes than to post it. :-P</p>
<p>haha, I know who got the Lingle!!!!! :D</p>
<p>~waits to see if he/she posts it here~</p>
<p>: ) your sleuthing skills are impressive, Adam</p>
<p>Yeah, amazing sleuthing skills. I got the following IM:</p>
<p>person (3:41:55 PM): ADAM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
~a minute of nonsensical banter~
person (3:42:21 PM): lingle</p>
<p>So I don't think sleuthing was quite involved, sadly :p</p>
<p>I could've sworn there were more exclamation points there, ADAM!. Also, I'm not quite so androgynous as to warrant a "he/she," am I? :-P</p>
<p>So... wow. I'm extremely honored. Not to mention incredibly and (as Adam so kindly pointed out) incoherently excited.</p>
<p>Thanks Caltech, and of course congratulations to everyone who's been admitted.</p>
<p>(Oh, and to Adam: Internet trouble again, grr. I've just biked to the public library; I wasn't just abandoning you.)</p>
<p>haha yeah, I copied that directly from AIM so, I don't know if you were being sarcastic or not but, um, that's pretty much what you said :p</p>
<p>And yeah, I sort of figured if you were to just randomly ignore me and then sign off, I'd have said something more horrible and offensive than "So, do you think you're going to take the Lingle?" ;) So worry not, my little (as we learned well at STS) friend.</p>
<p>Are Axline scholarships recyclable? Like if a bunch of offerees decide not to go to Caltech are the scholarships offered to other people?</p>
<p>Fine, only fourteen exclamation points, then.</p>
<p>I'm still pretty much in shock.</p>
<p>However, I'm not little. I'm arguably taller than Minhsie, and if she's taller then it's her fault for squashing me when she was on my shoulders :)</p>
<p>I believe that Axlines are not recyclable... Ben explained this at some point.</p>
<p>The Lingle is. <em>cringes</em> So, um, yeah. I feel sort of bad taking it, but...</p>
<p>\edit: Oops, my information's actually coming from Galen (post #14 of this thread).</p>
<p>By "some point" Kim means "earlier in this very thread."</p>
<p>Yeah, any opportunity I can take to belittle the Lingle winner's intelligence, I'll have to use.</p>
<p>Not like, you know, I didn't do that before or anything, but now you're Ms. Lingle ;)</p>
<p>\edit: I just noticed your \edit. Damnit. You're so annoying (I miss you).</p>
<p>I never entertained any thoughts at all about Caltech, and science is my worst subject. </p>
<p>I just wanted to say that I think it's really funny the way Guitar takes over every single post in which he participates.</p>
<p>Of course the question we are all waiting to ask is how the Guitar Man himself did in this respect.</p>
<p>EDIT: Nevermind, just saw your post in the decisions thread. Congrats, GuitarMan! I hope Harvard works out for you as well. But of course this begs the question, given the choice between Harvard with need-based scholarship, and Caltech with full Axline scholarship, which do you choose?</p>
<p>One of the previous posts refer to the two tiers of the Axline scholarship. Can anyone verify this? Are the two tiers given different names, and if not, what, if anything, signifies one of the two tiers?</p>
<p>I think it's just the letter. It says either "you got full tuition" or "you got full tuition and room and board."</p>
<p>Duality--If I get into Harvard, I'm going, no doubt about it, although of course it's not easy to turn down the Axline (but then again, of course, if Flierdeke ends up going then that makes turning down the Axline all the much easier ;)). I see it as a very, very nice honor, and as I've repeatedly told Ben and others, I don't see myself ending up anywhere but Pasadena for grad school :)</p>
<p>... assuming Pasadena takes you for grad school ;-). We hold grudges. <em>snicker</em></p>
<p>:(</p>
<p>...</p>
<p>Meanie.</p>
<p>Anywho, Ben, so if you turn down Caltech for undergrad, grad school holds a grudge, and if you go to Caltech for undergrad, it's much harder to get into their grad school--is there any way to win????? :p</p>
<p>Hehe, I was joking, Adam -- as was presumably manifestly clear. Physics professors at Caltech don't have time to tie their shoelaces, let alone figure out who turned down Caltech's offer as an undergrad. Another matter is that it's just very hard to get into the best grad schools -- your competition by that point consists of people solely at your level. So even though you've clearly done well in this cycle, it's important to remember that one has to stay at full steam ahead to have a shot at remaining at a similar level for the graduate school years.</p>
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Anywho, Ben, so if you turn down Caltech for undergrad, grad school holds a grudge, and if you go to Caltech for undergrad, it's much harder to get into their grad school--is there any way to win?????
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You don't get accepted to Caltech undergrad?</p>