<p>For those of you applying to CalTech, their supplemental essays ask you to list three adjectives your friends would use to describe you in 250 characters, and to list three books that have been meaningful to you in 500 characters. Do they expect ANY explanation along with these responses? Or simply a list? My book list is only 120 characters with spaces and 100 characters without spaces so there seems to be plenty of room for short explanations.... but then again, they said to "list". Does anyone have any light to shed on this?</p>
<p>bump? anyone working on CalTech Essays? :/</p>
<p>I’m not applying to Caltech, but I cannot imagine why they would want a list of topics without an explanation. Give some reasoning behind these choices!</p>