Caltech Decision Thread

Colleges and Universities A-Z California Institute of Technology
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<p>Decision: Accepted</p>

<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] EA/RD?: EA
[</em>] SAT: 2360 (790M, 770V, 800W)
[<em>] SAT IIs: 3x800 (iic, physics, ush)
[</em>] GPA: somewhere between 5 and 6 (not sure) weighted
[<em>] Rank: 3/528 I think
[</em>] AMC/AIME/USAMO: 101 on AMC (but was embarrassed so didn't report it... I went braindead at the test... I totally missed two of the easy ones.)
[<em>] Other Olympiads: NONE
[</em>] Other stats: ...
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] Essays: I thought my essays were pretty bad.
[</em>] Teacher Recs: No clue, didn't read them. Must have been solid though.
[<em>] Counselor Rec: Same
[</em>] Hook (if any): None! Asian-Male... antihook.
[/ul]Location/Person: **[ul]
[<em>] State or Country: Texas
[</em>] School Type: Public
[<em>] Ethnicity: Asian
[</em>] Gender: Male
[<em>] major strength/weakness: no major science awards, no research. No fairs
[</em>] why you think you were accepted/rejected/defered: I'm really agog right now. You've heard it before. I thought I might have a slight chance of MIT, but I was looking for a tiny envelope for Caltech. I have no idea how this happened guys. Maybe Caltech likes Chess people? I'm with JSuresh - big Chess guy, though no national awards since summer before 9th
[/ul]Other Factors:** Wow.</p>

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<p>[ b]Decision: ACCEPTED **
[<em>] EA/RD?: EA
Stats:[ul]
[</em>] SAT: 2350 (750 CR)
[<em>] SAT IIs: 800 Chem, 800 IIC, 770 US Hist
[</em>] GPA: 4.75
[<em>] Rank: 2/~380 or 400
[</em>] AMC/AIME/USAMO: school doesn't have them
[<em>] Other Olympiads: none
[</em>] Other stats: no national awards, but a few not-so-amazing state ones and school ones
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
5 on Calc. AB, 5 on Comp Sci A, 4 on US Hist
[<em>] Essays: above average
[</em>] Teacher Recs: above average
[<em>] Counselor Rec: above average
[</em>] Hook (if any): not really...
[/ul]Location/Person:[ul]
[<em>] State or Country: MA, USA
[</em>] School Type: public
[<em>] Ethnicity: Asian
[</em>] Gender: male
[<em>] major strength/weakness: did research and sent in research paper
[</em>] why you think you were accepted/rejected/defered: GPA, research
[/ul]Other Factors: </p>

<p>I'm so happy!
PM me if you want me screenname for AIM or email or something</p>

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<p>[ b]Decision: Accepted**
[<em>] EA/RD?:EA
Stats:[ul]
[</em>] SAT:650(cr) 740(m) 550(w)(I just come here of one year)
[<em>] SAT IIs:800iic 800ph 760ch
[</em>] GPA:4.0 uw 4.25w
[<em>] Rank:27/487
[</em>] AMC/AIME/USAMO:none
[<em>] Other Olympiads:IChO
[</em>] Other stats:AP 5calAB 5physicsC Mech 5 physicsC E&M 5 chem
[/ul][ b]Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] Essays:above average
[</em>] Teacher Recs:good
[<em>] Counselor Rec:good
[</em>] Hook (if any):strong basic of chemistry
[/ul][ b]Location/Person:[ul]
[<em>] State or Country:CA
[</em>] School Type: public
[<em>] Ethnicity:Asian
[</em>] Gender:F
[<em>] major strength/weakness:math and science especially chemistry/ English
[</em>] why you think you were accepted/rejected/defered:match
[/ul][ b]Other Factors:**
thanks Ben!!!!!!!!!</p>

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<p>Congratulations to all of you!</p>

<p>What did acceptance letter look like?</p>

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<p>It comes in a dark gray/orange package and the letter is written on Caltech letterhead.</p>

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<p>Dang, I should've applied. MIT totally pwned me (their loss :) ).</p>

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<p>There's still time :-). Apply regular!</p>

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<p>I was going to post an image of the letter.... but then I realized I don't want my address / name there</p>

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<p>If given a day or two, I plan to post an image of the letter and folder. I'll also post my box essay, if anyone wishes to see it.</p>

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<p>yea getting that caltech acceptance letter with the sleek folder on time was amazing. :] It says Welcome to Caltech in front of the folder...</p>

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<p>I loved my box response! I had a picture of a flower and a 3-d graph of a flower i made in spherical coordinates using maple. it was awesome!</p>

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<p>


I'd like to see it.</p>

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<p>I got accepted but then again, I don't feel like posting now.</p>

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<p>I didn't get a Welcome to Caltech folder when I got accepted. But Stanford sent me a magnetic poetry set. Whee.</p>

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<p>That was a poetry set? They seemed to be random pro-Stanford slogans, insignia, and other stuff.</p>

<p>I think I got a photo of the entire admissions comittee at Caltech over New Year's or Christmas.</p>

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<p>Hahahaha, even better! :-D</p>

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<p>Wow, these stats are indeed very impressive.
I wonder if all the applicants need very high scores (750-800 SATs) in order to apply.</p>

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<p>Decision: Deferred **
[<em>] EA/RD?: EA
**Stats:[ul]
[</em>] SAT: 1430 800 Math, 730 Verbal
[<em>] SAT IIs: 800 Math IIc, 780 Chem
[</em>] GPA: 4.33
[<em>] Rank: 21/400 sumthin
[</em>] AMC/AIME/USAMO: 132.5 AMC-12/ 3 AIME/no USAMO
[<em>] Other Olympiads: Scioly - top 25 teams in nation
[</em>] Other stats: Siemens Westinghouse Competition National Finalist, 4th Place
Science Bowl Nationals, top 16 teams<br>
Researcher at National Lab[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] Essays: good? I dunno prolly pretty bad
[</em>] Teacher Recs: I hope good, I'm pretty sure
[<em>] Counselor Rec: Pretty good I think, I don't ask
[</em>] Hook (if any): Umm...siemens....and science bowl...and the national lab researcher thing....i think i'm the only kid in the nation who can say that....but i dunno. meh..it's frustrating[/ul]Location/Person:[ul]
[<em>] State or Country: TN
[</em>] School Type: Public
[<em>] Ethnicity: Male, Middle Class and white
[</em>] Gender: Male
[<em>] major strength/weakness: Umm...I'm uber at science and math and i'm funny, i'm a nice guy, i swear ;-)/i forget stuff
[</em>] why you think you were accepted/rejected/defered: i kinda didn't send them my SAT II scores and left a page outta the app that i had to email to them...hehehehe Also, Siemens wasn't on my app at the time cuz it was too late.
[/ul]Other Factors:i dunno, they don't like me. My white space was brilliant. I spelled out Nick <3's CalTech in math. It's kinad long but it's the summation from 1 to n of i = ni then x= y^2 which is a c then <0,0,1> the k vector. Then i did r = 1-sin(theta) for a heart. then i did 4.184 J for Cal(orie). Tech was t taylor series expansion of e, which is long as hell to write out, where X was the speed of light (c) times planck's constant (h) so it was te^ch. So it spelled Nick <3 CalTech. It was brilliant i thought. YAY! And cool. Anyway, i was deferred, prolly cuz i forgot stuff</p>

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<p>you look better than me and I got in?</p>

<p>(except for GPA)</p>

<p>also... 800 + 730 isn't a 1430 =P</p>

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<p>meh, i just got up and i'm tired</p>