<p>Caltech's admissions phone campaign just concluded. Many of you may have received calls from students here (maybe even from me, hehe) to answer any questions you may have had or just chat with you about Caltech. To those of you who didn't get a call, (we have volunteers who work three hours a day for three days, so we reached a lot of people but not everyone) the one thing I'd really recommend is that you visit! You can come either during prefrosh weekend, April 19-22 or you can do the "Caltech in a Day" program (you can find info on both at <a href="http://admissions.caltech.edu/prefrosh%5B/url%5D">http://admissions.caltech.edu/prefrosh</a> ). </p>
<p>If any of you have any questions that weren't answered in calls and you, for whatever reason, didn't get the contact info of your caller, feel free to email me and I can either attempt to answer your questions or try to get you the contact info of whomever you spoke with. Of course, there are bunch of Caltech students reading these forums as well, so you can certainly pose your questions here too (and most of them are much more qualified than I am to answer questions, hehe).</p>
<p>It's a definite possibility. Most of the kids I called were either interested in EE or from Florida... and you're from Florida.
Edit: (since I'm a EE major from Florida... never would have guessed that one huh?)</p>
<p>Well did you call someone who asked about the difficulty of Caltech and responded by saying that your good friend posted up Stanford Psets on your door and you'd have a good laugh at how easy they were in comparison to Caltech's?</p>
<p>Anyways thanks for chatting with me on the phone =p</p>
<p>Haha yeah (Although I'm pretty sure that wasn't all I said on the subject :P) (well and technically he put them on his door).</p>
<p>Although I should clarify that Stanford certainly has difficult math classes too, they just aren't required of everyone who attends Stanford (unlike at Caltech). That is of course one of the reasons why Stanford has many more liberal arts majors (percentage wise) than we do. The comment sounds kind of elitist the way you said it, and I certainly didn't intend to make it sound that way... my point was that Caltech requires more work of you than most other places (even though you CAN work harder than you have to at other places). This is important because if you dislike doing work, Caltech probably isn't the right place for you ;-)</p>
<p>By the way, the classes I was specifically referring to were Stanford's Math 41 and 42 classes (the sets in question were from 42). My friend took it through Stanford's EPGY program, and said it was on the level of Calculus BC in high school. He has found Caltech's math classes to be significantly more difficult.</p>
<p>You can find homework for both Stanford's classes and our freshman math classes online and make the comparison for yourself.</p>
<p>In addition, my friend said that he found that our Math 1a (first term freshman math course) class was quite similar to Stanford's Math 115 class.</p>
<p>I second lizzardfire's statement that Stanford's math requirements aren't that difficult but there are really challenging math courses over there. There's a group of students that take around 14 hours per math problem (not because they're slow, unintelligent, etc)...</p>
<p>It's the courses you choose. Though admittedly, there is more grade inflation at Stanford.</p>
<p>I would just like to add that said ChemE/ACM was someone the majority of the people in my House did not know existed. ;) Honestly, unless you're double majoring with a humanity/social science or in two things that overlap a lot (like math and CS,) it's just a bad idea and there's almost never a good reason for it besides being a masochist.</p>
<p>There is a certain base level of masochism required for attending Tech, it's true. Whenever a Techer is referred to as a "masochist" by another Techer, it is assumed that they are a masochist relative to the already masochistic average Techer. ;)</p>