<p>I am; I've either rescinded my app from or been rejected from every other school.</p>
<p>So the $500 check is to be made out to "Caltech" or "California Institute of Technology" or... does it matter?</p>
<p>Barring a bizarre chain of events, I will also be at Caltech this fall :-).</p>
<p>I am pretty sure both will do, but use the latter longer name for safety.</p>
<p>I'll be heading to Caltech in the fall...unless the Earth opens up and I fall into some great abyss. But hopefully that won't happen.</p>
<p>+1 for definitely attending Caltech! :)</p>
<p>-Oren</p>
<p>I will be if I get lucky and get off the waitlist :P</p>
<p>I'll be there as well. Drop me an IM if any of you wanna talk. AIM: DaweiNCSSM</p>
<p>100% on my way to Pasadena this fall. See ya there!</p>
<p>i am.</p>
<p>unless caltech lied to me about my financial aid award, which they would not do.</p>
<p>+1 to lizzardfire. :)</p>
<p>I am definitely going to Caltech...yay.</p>
<p>cghen: ...You definitely are ;)</p>
<p>Caltech, here I come! :D</p>
<p>change your username immediately ;-)</p>
<p>Bah now I have to decide between Stanford and Caltech. Maybe I'll go to Stanford and give my Caltech spot to someone on the waiting list.</p>
<p>You could go to Caltech and give your Stanford spot to someone on the waiting list too. Either way, you're doing a good deed.</p>
<p>No. He's not. He's only doing a good deed if he goes to Stanford. (Haha, guess how my application resulted?)</p>
<p>You guys seem to be forgetting that each school plans on a certain number of students declining the offer : ). So unless you're a "statistically unexpected" case, your decision isn't likely to swing the total yield one way or the other. On the other hand, imagining that everyone else's behavior is decided, what you do surely will affect the total number. Hm.... this is kind of a bit of a paradox.</p>
<p>So basically, you have to be the last person who sends in your decision, unless the critical number has been reached or will not be reached even with your decision.</p>
<p>Order shouldn't really matter, though. You somehow "control" +/- 1 whenever you send it in. And yet at the same time "your decision doesn't matter" for the yield number, (just like your vote doesn't matter in an election.) This is very paradoxical.</p>