<p>Hey,</p>
<p>I was wondering if anyone has heard from either Caltech or Stanford's Chemical engineering (Ph.d) department?</p>
<p>I applied to Stanford, haven't heard anything. Although I know one person at my school who was admitted.</p>
<p>I also know people who were admitted to Caltech ChemE</p>
<p>isn't that the worst feeling to know that somebody's been accepted and yet you're still waiting? It's happening to me and I've just stopped asking people, lol.</p>
<p>Interesting. Thanks for the update. I assume they applied really early. I applied the day it was due...</p>
<p>Back when I was applying for Caltech I got my response from the Materials department the Friday after I submitted my application (it was due midnight Sunday night, and I submitted it around 10 PM). I imagine ChemE does first-round selections in about the same amount of time since their visiting weekend was roughly the same time as ours if I'm remembering correctly.</p>
<p>Received email acceptance several weeks ago. Have not received/heard anything since then and Prospective Weekend is in a month. Does anyone have travel details?</p>
<p>JustAnotheNobody,</p>
<p>From which school?! I'm starting to lose hope. I was just hoping that Caltech and Stanford were still reviewing and had not started sending invites.</p>
<p>Nrets - </p>
<p>I've heard from both Caltech and Stanford and will visit both schools in March.</p>
<p>I'm don't know if all acceptances have been sent. There still may be hope. Good luck.</p>
<p>I got rejected from Stanford yesterday. There is seriously no rhyme or reason to the variation in answers I have been getting from schools:</p>
<p>Berkeley: Accepted three weeks before app. deadline
Princeton: Accepted shortly after deadline
Stanford: Rejected yesterday
Caltech: Waiting (applied near deadline)
MIT: Waiting (applied early)</p>
<p>I guess I don't see how one school can want me so bad they admit me before the deadline, and the other decides they won't even give me the time of day. Come on, I graduated from a top 5 school first in my major, 770Q/520V/5.5AW. Have been writing lots of anti-Stanford rant posts today.</p>
<p>What does top 5 undergrad mean? Wisconsin? Minnesota? Berkeley? Only the last one (with a good GPA) would be distinguishing to adcoms at these schools.</p>
<p>OchemE, I wonder if your applying early helped you with Berkeley. I submitted all my apps on the deadlines except for Cornell, and so far I've only been accepted to Cornell. My Santa Barbara app was actually submitted a day late, ha.</p>
<p>Stanford sucks anyways.</p>
<p>Man you guys are bitter. We don't want you here anyways...=).</p>
<p>It's ok. They're missing out. They could have had an AMAZING person like me, and now they've lost me to another school, their fault. </p>
<p>Haha, I'm just kidding...</p>
<p>Sorry Blah2009 that the 3.9 I graduated with, which also put me at the top of my class, is apparently not distinguishing enough for you. I don't know what to say.</p>
<p>Nrets- I wonder if it's possible that you and I limited our options by being too specific about what we want to do. I have a very specific idea- I want to stay on the CHemistry side as much as possible (did double major and sr thesis in chem), and there are only a couple of groups I wanted to work with at Stanford and at Caltech. If those groups don't have openings, and you're adamant about working with those groups, chances are you won't get in. If that's the case, then I am glad I got rejected, but it would be nice if the reasons they give you weren't so generic. Especially this year's letter that goes on and on about how they took longer than usual to make their decisions etc.</p>
<p>Congrats on your acceptances, fellow ChemEs. ;-)</p>
<p>Phone call about 12:45 EST. This leaves MIT as the only school I have not heard from yet.</p>
<p>^ Nice! What's your top choice? Good luck with MIT.</p>
<p>Berkeley and MIT were always tied for first.
Stanford was second before, but then I got rejected.
Now Princeton and CalTech are tied for my number 2 choice.</p>