EA Decisions thread

Colleges and Universities A-Z California Institute of Technology
1

<p>Yeah, everyone post their decision and stats here.
I blatantly ripped off the template from the MIT forum.</p>

<hr>

<p>DECISION: </p>

<p>Stats:</p>

<pre><code>* GPA UW:
* SAT: CR: M: W:
* SAT IIs:
* Rank: x/xxx
* AP/IB scores:
* AMC12/AIME/USAMO:
* Research:
* Courseload:
* Other stats:
</code></pre>

<p>Subjective:</p>

<pre><code>* Essays:
* Recommendations:
* Hook (if any):
</code></pre>

<p>Location/Person:</p>

<pre><code>* State or Country:
* School Type:
* Ethnicity:
* Gender:
</code></pre>

<p>Other Factors:</p>

<pre><code>* Extracurriculars listed on app:
* Summer Activities:
* Why I think I was accepted/deferred:
* What's your favourite flavor of pie?
* Other thoughts:
</code></pre>

2

<p>hmm this should be interesting. How soon do you think someone will get a decision? anyone living in California apply ea?</p>

3

<p>It says on <a href="http://www.admissions.caltech.edu/%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.admissions.caltech.edu/&lt;/a> that scholarship letters will be mailed in March. Is this just financial aid stuff or does it include Axline and Linge too?</p>

4

<p>From what Flierdeke [url=<a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=274000%5Dsaid%5B/url"&gt;http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=274000]said[/url&lt;/a&gt;] some of the Axlines will arrive to their destinations this week</p>

5

<p>good luck, all</p>

6

<p>yea, Lingle you have to wait, as there is only one Lingle so that you need to compete with all applicants.</p>

7

<p>What are Lingle and Axline?</p>

8

<p>If you want your decision to look pretty you could use the following(formatting blatantly ripped off last year's thread, content from fizix/MIT forum). Just delete the spaces. </p>

<hr>

<p>[ size=+1][ color=Orange][ b]Decision: ___________[ /b][ /color][ /size]</p>

<p>[ b]Stats:[ /b][ list]
[ *] SAT: CR: M: W:
[ *] SAT IIs:
[ *] GPA:
[ *] Rank: x/xxx
[ *] AP/IB scores:
[ *] AMC12/AIME/USAMO:
[ *] Research:
[ *] Courseload:
[ *] Other stats:</p>

<p>[ /list][ b]Subjective:[ /b][ list]
[ *] Essays:
[ *] Recommendations:
[ *] Hook (if any):</p>

<p>[ /list][ b]Location/Person:[ /b][ list]
[ *] State or Country:
[ *] School Type:
[ *] Ethnicity:
[ *] Gender:
[ *] Major strength/weakness:</p>

<p>[ /list][ b]Other Factors:[ /b]
[ *] Extracurriculars listed on app:
[ *] Summer Activities:
[ *] Why I think I was accepted/deferred:
[ *] What's your favourite flavor of pie?
[ *] Other thoughts:</p>

9

<p>Axline ~ a full ride to Caltech. Awarded to either 5% or 1% of entering class. Sorry, I forgot exact number.
Lingle ~ a full ride plus $10,000 above it (I think). Awarded to top 1 (2) student(s) of entering class.</p>

<p>In either case both are very good =)</p>

10

<p>I believe that as far as Axline goes, top 3% get full ride, next 3% get full tuition.</p>

11

<p>Those are merit scholarships, renewable for 3 more years. There is supposely only one Lingle for each entering class, which is $7500 on top of Axline. The top level of Axline also include the offer of pre-frosh SURF(summer research). In the past Mr. and Mrs. Lingle with come to campus every year, and the Lingles will joint them and the president for lunch.</p>

12

<p>Axline's get a SURF before they start frosh year? Sweet!</p>

13

<p>I should note that such scholarships seem more likely to go to girls. At least, that's how it appears based on my sample, but Ben would probably know more.</p>

14

<p>Oh, and you people who will start receiving mail in the next 15 hours or so, be sure to list details of packages (i.e., size) for all of us here who aren't so fortunate to live .24246 nm from Caltech!</p>

15

<p>I doublt that gender is a consideration for those awards. There are some thing called Presidential award (I could be wrong) address minority and woman candidates.</p>

16

<p>Good luck from the Princeton forum =)</p>

17

<p>Inverse has it exactly right re merit awards and gender. The Axline is completely gender blind and almost always the ratio is like the Caltech ratio. The Presidential Award is to attract applicants bringing diversity (once they have been admitted in the usual gender- and color-blind way) and women do certainly get consideration for that scholarship.</p>

18

<p>Why doesn't caltech's decisions come through online like MITs?</p>

19

<p>yeah why dont they? I mean they have the decisions, and i'm pretty sure (or at least i hope i'm sure) that they have fewer applicants. So wouldnt it be easier for everyone if they just posted them online?</p>

20

<p>so anyone get a letter?</p>