<p>^It isn’t. There were 2 other people from my school that got in EA, so our school is like 3/3 and it’s just a regular, nonfeeder school. Caltech specifically said on its website that they don’t discriminate by school, but they DO discriminate by region. But your son’s accomplishments are amazing, so he will DEFINITELY get in somewhere good, don’t worry!</p>
<p>Waitlisted. But well, I had applied for international FA, so quite satisfied any way. </p>
<p>Quick stats:</p>
<p>SAT 2280 (cr 690, m 790, w 800)
SAT subject: math 2 - 800, physics - 800, chemistry - 790
GPA: 10/10 in Indian CBSE System.
Course load: Heaviest available, science and computers oriented.</p>
<p>Ethnicity: International - Indian (UAE Resident)</p>
<p>Accepted! It feels so nice to have this under my belt going into Pi Day…</p>
<p>SAT: 2400, ACT: 36, SATII: 800 on all of Math II, Physics, Chem, Bio E
GPA: 4.00/4.00
APs: 10 exams taken (all 5s)
ECs: Lots of STEM clubs, leadership positions in a few, Varsity Tennis, Various Volunteering, Summer research/internships, other employment
Awards/Notable: National AP Scholar, USAPhO qualifier, AIME(9), Several state/interstate level medals in STEM compeitions, etc.</p>
<p>Im from a pretty mediocre public high school in Central, IL so I probably stood out REALLY well. I’m one of the best STEM students my school has ever had so great recs, also no one else from my school applied. Good luck to those waitlisted and to the rejected, college admissions is basically a lottery at this level.</p>
<p>ACCEPTED!
Probably the biggest surprise of my life. I have no Math/Sci extracurriculars outside of one summer internship! I guess my passion for science showed through (plus my essays were about Feynman =D). </p>
<p>SAT: 2300 (800, 800, 700) SATII: 800 Math II, 800 Chem, 790 Physics
GPA: 4.46/4.50
APs: 5 5s (max school offers)
ECs: Some STEM Clubs, high level writing experience, Varsity Tennis Captain, Varsity Golf State Champion, Solid internships, musical theater, vocal performance.
ASIAN Male</p>
<p>NO STEM National/State Recognition! </p>
<p>If you can’t tell, I’m pretty stoked. Caltech wasn’t really on my mind because I thought it was an autoreject, but now it’s definitely under consideration!</p>
<p>Is there any follow up email sent by Caltech within a week to accepted students after the decisions are announced? May be someone from EA accept can chime in?</p>
<p>Accepted! Wow this is amazing 
congrats to everyone else who was accepted!</p>
<p>Don’t forget about this thread! The RD official results page!
<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=1470675[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=1470675</a></p>
<p>Am I the only one who didn’t receive a decision notification email from Caltech? I mean, I saw my decision on the portal since I knew that the decision would be available there. But, wasn’t caltech supposed to notify all applicants by email?</p>
<p>^Maybe it’s in your spam. My friend found his there last year.</p>
<p>No, it’s not there.</p>
<p>Also, till date Caltech has sent me two emails regarding my application.
- When I submitted my app, Caltech acknowledged its receipt giving me my PIN number.
- The applicant status email - However, when I clicked on the link, it always showed “403 Forbidden”</p>
<p>Waitlisted! Woohoo! Am I the only one who’s actually really excited about being waitlisted? I thought I was going to be rejected for sure. I’m not a terribly outstanding person, but hey… w/l > rejection</p>
<p>Okay. I’m just too excited about this.</p>
<p>I got in. Any Indians here?</p>
<p>No goforitman, you’re not the only one that didn’t receive any email from them. </p>
<p>I’m posting this for my son (rejected) who hasn’t received any notification email from them at all. And no, it’s not in his SPAM folder. We obviously know their decision by signing in to the status site, but personally, I think that’s a bit trashy of them to not send the email. And we’ve gotten emails from them before, so it’s not an issue with his email address.</p>
<p>Engineer2017, thanks! But, did the link provided by Caltech to check the app status show an error? I am a bit ****ed off with the decision. Being an international olympiad medalist applying without FA (Caltech’s need-aware for intl students), I was hoping to be atleast wait-listed, seeing the stats of students who were accepted in the previous years.</p>
<p>My S got accepted.</p>
<p>2290, 9 AP (5’s), post AP science and math courses in the senior year.
Summer math camps for 2 years.</p>
<p>engineer2017, </p>
<p>There could be many explanations for your son not receiving an email. We don’t know the details of the process, but I cannot imagine that anyone deliberately didn’t notify him. I would simply suggest that if you saw a definite decision in the portal, then call admissions and very nicely say that your child hasn’t received an email decision and wondered if it has been sent out yet. I don’t know if they are all sent at the same time. Perhaps it’s about to be sent. Also, it’s probably a clerical person who actually sends it and as real people they sometimes can make mistakes if they send out 8,000 emails, as in a mistyped email address or something not sent when they thought they sent it or something random like that. If so, it would not have been directed personally but rather would be random. We didn’t get any of my son’s acceptance letters initially from anywhere because there was a postal worker interfering with mail delivery. We had colleges calling us asking if my son had made a decision and we didn’t even know about the acceptances.</p>
<p>firefliesdance, </p>
<p>Most waitlists are not ranked, so the people showing the most interest in getting in may have the most likelihood of filling empty spots once responses come in from accepted students. However, some years there are no empty spots available. I would suggest you think of anything you can send to the admissions department to show your increasing and intense enthusiasm for going to Caltech, that is if you are still intent on Caltech versus places you have been accepted. Show them new grades, project results, newspaper clippings, a blog post you wrote about some new science news, or something impressive. Be ever present in their minds as a kid who is going for the gusto, not a lukewarm waitlist kid who is focusing on other schools now. I don’t mean you should be obnoxious, but show yourself and let the other kids fade away as a result. Interest equals opportunity when it comes to waitlists.</p>