<p>jiminy probably pasted his MIT template into this thread. He got into MIT EA as well.</p>
<p><strong><em>ACCEPTED</em></strong></p>
<p>[ *]SAT:CR:800 M: 800 W:800 (one sitting)
[ *]SAT II: Bio800,Physics800, MathII-800, USHis800
[ *]ACT: None
[ *]GPA: 5.25 W
[ *]Rank:1
[ *]Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB):AP (took 7 AP courses, all 5’s)
Senior Year: 4 AP Courses, along with 2 courses at University (Organic Chem, Geology)
Summer School: Have 24 credits from University–all Math, Science courses</p>
<p>[ *]Essays: Hate writing essays, had AP English teacher read mines, and had to edit
three times to get my ideas/thoughts right.
[ *]Teacher Recs: APCalculus teacher wrote me a nice one, Science Fair advisor did
a good one also.
[ *]Counselor Rec: Did not see, but she likes me.
[ *]Supplementary Material: Did science fair research for 4 yrs in high school, wrote
research papers each time.
[ *]Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize): Nope</p>
<p>[ *]Location: Nevada
[ *]High School Type: Large public, 25%-30% dropout rate from 9th to 12th grade, in
economically disadvantaged neighborhood
[ *]Ethnicity: White
[ *]Gender: Male</p>
<p>[ *]Extracurriculars: Math League, Started Physics and Robotics team for school in 9th grade, Science Fair participant (4 yrs), Baseball pitcher (not a good team–losing record)
Track (3 yrs), Youth symphony (10 yrs), Math Tutoring (4 yrs high school), homeless
shelter volunteer, Student Editor for City Newspaper
[ *]Awards:Science Fair Awards, Siemens Finalist, AMC Awards, National Science League
Awards, AP Scholar, NHS, NM Semifinalist, Youth Symphony Awards, Robotics Awards,
Baseball Letters,
[ *]Advice? Put lots of time into math, science subjects, get good grades, and be
positive in life.</p>
<p>Im hoping I get a good financial aid package from CalTech. Way too costly for my
mom to afford. Applied to a ton of scholarships, hoping to get some to afford this
school. If not, I already got a scholarship offer for a full 4 yrs at our state university,
but I rather go to Cal Tech instead. Wish me luck!</p>
<p>Deferred</p>
<p>SAT: CR: 710 M: 770 W: 710
SAT II: MathII-700, Bio:760, Chem 740, Physics 760, USHis 760
GPA: 3.78
Rank: does not rank, top 20%
Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB): APEng 4, AP Bio 5, APUSHis 4</p>
<p>Essays: i hope i did good
Teacher Recs: did not see, hope they wrote good ones
Counselor Rec: did not see
Supplementary Material:summer research i did at university
Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize): APPhysics teacher at our school graduated
from CalTech</p>
<p>Location: Northern California
High School Type: Public
Ethnicity: African American
Gender: Female</p>
<p>Extracurriculars: Math team, Basketball, Track/Field
Awards: Track/Field Awards, Math Awards</p>
<p>probably not strong applicant in the sciences. im more into math. counselor suggested
to apply here at caltech.</p>
<p>i’ll probably end up at a Cal State University somewhere.</p>
<p>congrats to those that got in!!</p>
<p>NOT b/c I’m Asian and I got a 750 for SATI Math
i got deferred from MIT 
</p>
<p>i dont know what all these stats r for.
just spend a lot of time on ur essays if ur applying b/c thats all u can do</p>
<p>And we know that in all things, God works for the good of those who love Him, who have been called according to His purpose -Romans 8:28</p>
<p>Rejected</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>]SAT: 1600/2390
[</em>]SAT II: Math 800, Phys 800, Chem 800
[<em>]GPA: 4.2
[</em>]Rank: 2nd or 3rd out of 77
[<em>]Essays: I thought good to very good,
[</em>]Teacher Recs: definitely strong
[<em>]Counselor Rec: also good
[</em>]Supplementary Material:
[<em>]Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize): NO research; I skipped a grade and am one year younger than everybody else - therefore I didn’t have my driver’s license until Senior year, wasn’t mobile and couldn’t really work …
[/ul]Personal[ul]
[</em>]Location: Virginia
[<em>]High School Type: small private, no special science activities, not even AP Physics every year (this year, we do!!). I went to school in 3 different countries, only last 4.5 years in VA. Fluent in German (1st language)
[</em>]Ethnicity: caucasian
[<em>]Gender male
[/ul]Other[ul]
[</em>]Extracurriculars: Java Course @ Harvard, Eng. Summer Camp @ Johns Hopkins, both with College credits, quite some volunteer work, …
[<em>]Awards: AP scholar, National Merit Semifinalist, several awards
[</em>]Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?:[/ul] Without research, don’t even bother to apply … :-(</p>
<p>
</p>
<p>I would disagree. There are plenty of people at Caltech who did not do research in high school, myself included.</p>
<p>I totally agree with dLo. I have also seen people doing research and getting rejected. So don’t let research bother you. What matters most is how you can show to the committee your passion in science/math, and how you can contribute to the school community.</p>
<p>i submitted a research paper. hope its enough! :D</p>
<p>when do decisions start coming out? is it via email or snail mail???</p>
<p>according to their blog, decisions are going to be out 12 PM PCF this Saturday… get hyped!</p>
<p>Rejected</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>]SAT: 2270
[</em>]SAT II: Math II 780, Chemistry 710, Biology M 710, Spanish with Listening 790
[<em>]ACT: 33
[</em>]GPA: over 102
[<em>]Rank: 4/120
[</em>]Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB): AP English Language 4, AP Spanish Language 5, AP Calculus AB 5
[/ul]Subjective[ul]
[<em>]Essays: Main essay about learning Spanish. Supplemental essays about being a vegetarian, xkcd, and computer programming. They were all creative, original, etc.
[</em>]Teacher Recs: I saw one, was as good as possible. I didn’t see the other.
[<em>]Counselor Rec: Didn’t see, I assume it was great.
[</em>]Supplementary Material: Paper based on original biochemistry research.
[<em>]Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize): None?
[/ul]Personal[ul]
[</em>]Location: South Texas.
[<em>]High School Type: Catholic, less than 500 students.
[</em>]Ethnicity: White.
[<em>]Gender: Male.
[/ul]Other[ul]
[</em>]Extracurriculars: Science club, Boy Scouts (Eagle etc.), Varsity Cross Country, Theatre, speaking competitions, computer programming internship…
[<em>]Awards: None (Siemens fail, lol).
[</em>]Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?:[/ul] I expected to be rejected; I almost didn’t submit my application. My stats are too low. I’m waiting on 6 other schools, including MIT tomorrow, so I’m not that devastated.</p>
<p>Rejected</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>]SAT: CR:720/Math:800/W:720 – 2240 (super scored, 3 takes)
[</em>]SAT II: 800 Math II/770 Physics
[<em>]ACT: 33
[</em>]GPA: 3.75 UW
[<em>]Rank: 22/421
[</em>]Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB): bad APs
[/ul]Subjective[ul]
[<em>]Essays: I thought they were creative and good
[</em>]Teacher Recs: Probably not super great
[<em>]Counselor Rec: Probably not super great
[</em>]Supplementary Material: Letter of rec from research professor
[<em>]Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize): X
[/ul]Personal[ul]
[</em>]Location: Idaho
[<em>]High School Type: Public
[</em>]Ethnicity: White
[<em>]Gender: M
[/ul]Other[ul]
[</em>]Extracurriculars: Pretty weak… not much leadership
[<em>]Awards: None
[</em>]Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?: /sigh this was probably my best app[/ul] Dont think you can pull yourself back from a bad freshman year, there are too many good applicants for upward trends to mean much anymore.</p>
<p>Rejected</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>]SAT: 2030 ( 590CR + 800M + 640W)
[</em>]SAT II: 800 MathIIC, 780 Physics
[<em>]ACT: N/A
[</em>]GPA: 9.9/10
[<em>]Rank: 1/108
[</em>]Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB): None offered at my school
[/ul]Subjective[ul]
[<em>]Essays: I thought one of them was good
[</em>]Teacher Recs: Good
[<em>]Counselor Rec: Good
[</em>]Supplementary Material: None
[<em>]Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize): None
[/ul]Personal[ul]
[</em>]Location: Armenia
[<em>]High School Type: Standard Public
[</em>]Ethnicity: Armenian
[<em>]Gender: Male
[/ul]Other[ul]
[</em>]Extracurriculars: Game Development, Computer Science.
[<em>]Awards: Graduation Gold Medal, International Olympiad in Informatics Bronze Medal
[</em>]Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?: I wonder what would happen if I hadn’t applied for FA…
[/ul]</p>
<p>Rejected</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>]SAT: 1490/2260
[</em>]SAT II: 730 Lit, 730 Math I, 760 Math II, 580 (ouch!) chem
[<em>]ACT:
[</em>]GPA: 3.98 U/4.39 W
[<em>]Rank: 1/50
[</em>]Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB): 3,4,4,4,5 on APs
[/ul][ b]Subjective**[ul]
[<em>]Essays: ehh… they probably thought i was crazy with some of them.
[</em>]Teacher Recs: english (didn’t read but likely strong) and math (good!!)
[<em>]Counselor Rec: didn’t read.
[</em>]Supplementary Material: nonexistent.
[<em>]Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize): definitely nonexistent.
[/ul]Personal[ul]
[</em>]Location: FL
[<em>]High School Type: catholic
[</em>]Ethnicity: white
[<em>]Gender: my username says it all 
[/ul]Other[ul]
[</em>]Extracurriculars: community service; Mu Alpha Theta; student gov’t; drama; tennis
[<em>]Awards: National Merit finalist; AP scholar with distinction; nothing important.
[</em>]Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?:[/ul]
congrats to all who were accepted. i know you guys deserve it 100%
everyone waitlisted or rejected, if you applied to caltech, its pretty much a guarantee you’re a good student and will succeed no matter where you go to college. :)</p>
<p>Decision: Waitlisted
Stats:[ul]
[<em>]SAT: 2240 (690CR / 800M / 750W)
[</em>]SAT II: 720 Physics / 790 Math II
[<em>]ACT: Didn’t take
[</em>]GPA: 3.85 UW; 4.34 W
[<em>]Rank: 4/469
[</em>]Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB): AP Calc AB, AP Biology, AP Physics, AP English Lang Comp, AP European History (All passed)
AMC 12: 94.5 (AIME Qualifier 2010)
[/ul]Subjective[ul]
[<em>]Essays: Show my culture, where I come from, and my passion for science and religion.
[</em>]Teacher Recs: Pretty good. One from my AP Physics teacher and AP Stats who know me well, and one from AP Lit & Comp teacher who is really sweet.
[<em>]Counselor Rec: Highest recommendation – Best ever written
[</em>]Supplementary Material: Research and work material on an engineering project I undertook with my friends and joined a competition. We won 1st place.
[<em>]Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize): Forced the district through popular vote and signatures to pass AP Computer science as a legitimate course to teach in school; I can read and write Sanskrit.
[/ul]Personal[ul]
[</em>]Location: Bay Area, California
[<em>]High School Type: Low class Public
[</em>]Ethnicity: Indian
[<em>]Gender: Male
[/ul]Other[ul]
[</em>]Extracurriculars: Hindu Temple Priest for 4 years; Creator/President of chess club in school. Member of Peninsula Chess Center and Kolty Chess Center; 3rd President of Math Club in school history; Vice President of the newly created Science Bowl team; Regional California Academy Epee fencer.
[<em>]Awards: Caltech Signature Award, ELKS Most Valuable Student Scholarship State Level Finalist, Bausch and Lomb Honorary Science Award 2009, National Merit Commended, AIME Qualifier, Betchel Science Challenge Competition Semifinalists x2, Tech Museum of Innovation Tech Challenge Regional 1st Place Winner for Engineering Journal (was on the newspaper), Rensselaer Medal for Achievement in Mathematics, Few Chess trophies.
[</em>]Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?: GAAHHHH!!! WTH!! I HATE WAITINGG!!![/ul]</p>
<p>Accepted</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>]SAT: CR 760/M 800/W 720 1560/2280 one sitting
[</em>]SAT II: Math 2 800/Physics 790
[<em>]ACT: haven’t taken
[</em>]GPA: 3.9(out of 4)
[<em>]Rank: top 5%
[</em>]Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB):
AP
Calculus AB 5
Calculus BC 5
Chemistry 5
Physics B 5
Physics C E&M 4
Physics C M 5
[/ul]Subjective[ul]
[<em>]Essays: just exceptional! it took me 3 month to write the Feynman essay!
[</em>]Teacher Recs: good
[<em>]Counselor Rec: great!
[</em>]Supplementary Material: I am lazy. None
[<em>]Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize):
[/ul]Personal[ul]
[</em>]Location: UK
[<em>]High School Type:large public school
[</em>]Ethnicity:Asian
[<em>]Gender: Female
[/ul]Other[ul]
[</em>]Extracurriculars: almost not worth mentioning; nothing exceptional.
[<em>]Awards: only citywide awards
[</em>]Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?:[/ul] I think my essays got me in. I never took AMC or stuffs like that. and No Olympiad medals. But I am really passionate about physics.
So I think just show your passion is enough. Now after deferral from UChicago this is THE best day in my whole life up to now.
See you guys at the campus in fall!!!</p>
<p>Decision: ACCEPTED
Stats in brief:
SAT: 2400
SAT II: 800 Math 2, 800 Chem, 790 Physcis, 770 US Hist
ACT: 35
GPA: 4.0 UW; 5.16 W
Rank: 1/400
Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB): 9 APs with all 5s
AMC 12: AIME score 7, NMF, National AP scholar, many top notch science research awards, many math awards and excellent ECS.
Indian from SC.</p>
<p>Accepted
International</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>]SAT: 1970 (560 CR, 800 M, 610 W)
[</em>]SAT II: 800 Math II, 770 Physics
[<em>]ACT:
[</em>]GPA: about 19.5/20 (international school)
[<em>]Rank: 1/228
[</em>]Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB):
[/ul]Subjective[ul]
[<em>]Essays: well planned I think, it took me MUCH time, though they weren’t stellar, just fine I guess…
[</em>]Teacher Recs: good
[<em>]Counselor Rec: very good
[</em>]Supplementary Material: none
[<em>]Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize): twice IMO silver medalist, several other silver and gold medals, such as Iberoamerican Math Olympiad gold medal
Invited by the best institution of Mathematics in Peru to take Master’s courses there and did pretty well (equivalent to A/A+). Also won a summer scholarship to study a course at IMPA (Brazilian math institute).
[/ul]Personal[ul]
[</em>]Location: Lima, Peru
[<em>]High School Type: private
[</em>]Ethnicity: I’m full Peruvian!!
[<em>]Gender: male
[/ul]Other[ul]
[</em>]Extracurriculars: Besides math-related, not much. Some years ago, did well in chess tournaments and played guitar.
[<em>]Awards: Look at “Hooks”
[</em>]Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?:[/ul] Yay, nice I got in!!! I thought I had a chance, so it’s not so shocking.</p>
<p>[ size=+1][ color=blue][ b]Waitlisted[ /b][ /color][ /size]</p>
<p>[ b]Stats:[ /b][ list]
[ *]SAT: 2280
[ *]SAT II: 800 Math II, 800 Physics, 780 USH
[ *]ACT:
[ *]GPA: 3.83uw
[ *]Rank: idk
[ *]Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB): 5 5s on APs, 106.5 AMC, 6 AIME
[ /list][ b]Subjective[ /b][ list]
[ *]Essays: I thought they were good.
[ *]Teacher Recs: idk
[ *]Counselor Rec: meh
[ *]Supplementary Material: sent a music CD.
[ *]Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize): nope.
[ /list][ b]Personal[ /b][ list]
[ *]Location: NJ
[ *]High School Type: public
[ *]Ethnicity: Asian
[ *]Gender: Male
[ /list][ b]Other[ /b][ list]
[ *]Extracurriculars: piano, math, chess, other stuff
[ *]Awards: nothing really major
[ *]Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?: I want to kill someone -.-[ /list]</p>
<p>On a side note can we get a count of approximately how many people on CC got waitlisted?</p>
<p>Just add one to this number if you did.</p>
<p>WL: 2</p>
<p>REJECTEDDDDDDD</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>]SAT: 2230
[</em>]SAT II: 800 Math II, 800 chem, 730 USH, 800 chinese, 790 biom
[<em>]ACT:
[</em>]GPA: 4.2w
[<em>]Rank: idk
[</em>]Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB): 6 5s on APs
[/ul]Subjective[ul]
[<em>]Essays: now that i look back at it. i suck
[</em>]Teacher Recs: supposedly good. who knows
[<em>]Counselor Rec: supposedly good too
[</em>]Supplementary Material: none.
[<em>]Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize): none
[/ul]Personal[ul]
[</em>]Location:CA
[<em>]High School Type: public
[</em>]Ethnicity: Asian
[<em>]Gender: Male
[/ul]Other[ul]
[</em>]Extracurriculars: soccer… i dont even know anymore. bunch of random stuff
[<em>]Awards: idk
[</em>]Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?: idk. disappointed?[/ul]</p>
<p>WAITLIST</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>]SAT: 2380 (800 CR, 780 M, 800 W)
[</em>]SAT II: 800 Chem, Math II, Lit
[<em>]ACT: N/A
[</em>]GPA: 3.78 UW / 4.462 W
[<em>]Rank: 24/430
[</em>]Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB): 5’s on Chem, Bio, Calc BC, and four others. 4 in French.
[/ul]Subjective[ul]
[<em>]Essays: Feynman was good but not perfectly topical, lol. Honor Code one was </em><em>. Things you do for fun was AWESOME. 
[</em>]Teacher Recs: They love me! (I didn’t see them.)
[<em>]Counselor Rec: idk, she doesn’t really know me.
[</em>]Supplementary Material: research paper on conotoxins
[<em>]Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize): legacy (mother was a PhD student here), but I assume that counts for not-very-much at Caltech
[/ul]Personal[ul]
[</em>]Location: Georgia
[<em>]High School Type: Public suburban magnet (one-fourth of the school is magnet); SAT average in the 1900s.
[</em>]Ethnicity: Asian
[<em>]Gender: F
[/ul]Other[ul]
[</em>]Extracurriculars: nothing of note. A few years of math team, some piano, a smattering of clubs…I did some research with a professor this summer, and submitted it to Siemens and Intel, but no awards.
[<em>]Awards: Just the run of the mill National AP Scholar / NMF type stuff.
[</em>]Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?: I don’t know that Caltech does this, but I can’t help but wonder if this was a courtesy waitlist. XD I probably won’t stay on–Caltech’s a little too techie for me. Congratulations to everyone who got in, and good luck! :>[/ul]</p>