<p>My daughter just got her rejection email from Caltech. MIT is her dream school, we're still waiting to hear on that - deferred from early decision. Does anyone know if there's a connection - i.e. if Caltech rejected, so will MIT?</p>
<p>Unless you’ve got something absolutely amazing on your app they’re both lottery tickets. So I would say your chances are slim, but unrelated to Caltech.</p>
<p>same EXACT situation, same question.</p>
<p>but I think, in the past, they have been very different. they look for different things. MIT kind of picks and chooses to create diversity (interests) among the student population. whereas Caltech focuses a lot more on grades and super SAT scores and mathy/science competition things</p>
<p>well for stats purposes my friend had approx. a 3.5 gpa and 1950-2000 on her SATs and she got into MIT EA.</p>
<p>Thanks, I hope they do. She also plays soccer, and Caltech doesn’t even have a team. She’s spoken to the soccer coach, and he’s put in a word for her, so I’m hoping that might help her stand out from the crowd.</p>
<p>a girl from my school got accepted ea to MIT but just got declined from caltech</p>
<p>Both schools are looking for math/science geek type kids. Caltech relies on SATs and GPAs whereas MIT tends to look for the personality behind the high grades and scores.</p>
<p>MIT is more lenient on girls than Caltech. MIT also looks for people who have passion in addition to scores and academic achievements (i’m sure Caltech does too though); MIT doesn’t see your SAT score but only a score out of 5 that rates your SAT scores.</p>
<p>I know of people who’ve gotten into MIT and rejected from Caltech and vice versa. The decision of one isn’t really an accurate predictor of the other.</p>
<p>MIT is more holistic. Caltech does NOT practice affirmative action, but MIT does, quite a bit. In general, if you think your D’s Extracurriculars and essays are the strong point of her app, she probably still has a chance at MIT, but if GPA/SAT are her strong point, than MIT could be an issue.</p>
<p>I know a girl who got accepted to MIT EA and rejected from Caltech. (And vice versa.)</p>
<p>I think Caltech is actually more difficult to get into.</p>
<p>Assuming the applicant’s stats put them in the running in the first place, success or failure at one high-end school does not predict success or failure at another high-end school. A few years ago the same application got my daughter flat out rejected by Yale but accepted by Harvard. Similar schools are not always looking for exactly the same thing in a kid.</p>
<p>Given that enrollment at MIT is greater than CalTech, wouldn’t this have something to do with it?</p>
<p>If your DD already got deferred you have a good read. Only a small percentage of the deferred get in. Your hope seems to be soccer. If the coach believes she will contribute to the team and that pull was not there before the deferral, that’s her best shot.</p>
<p>No, one of my friends applied to both school early action and got accepted to both.</p>
<p>not enough correlation to be significant…</p>
<p>here’s the 3 possibilities:
- the kid is so bad they’re automatically rejected from both
- the kid is qualified for both but not necessarily in either of them, so they’re both a crapshoot (highest probability of this scenario)
- the kid is so so so overqualified and impressive that they’re automatically accepted to both</p>