<p>omg, guys. i had a dream last night when it was the D-Day for me to check my email. I was on my computer and I opened an email from caltech...and on my screen, I saw a HUGE red "REJECTED" all over my screen..after that, I think I fainted or something like that..oh jeez, I must be crazy if I'm dreaming a rejection from caltech last night. LOL.</p>
<p>mws2100 </p>
<p>If its any comfort, I think you should've been at least deferred...</p>
<p>I received the big envelop today. It is silver body with white top and an orange stripe going vertically across with 'California Institute of Technology' on it.</p>
<p>Also received an email from a girl I did research with at San Jose, CA who has also received her big envelop today.</p>
<p>Good luck to all; it seems most of west coast will get the mail today and big cities on the east and mid west tomorrow.</p>
<p>ack, "big cities on the east"...gah. I guess that means mine won't come tomorrow because I live in a small town. -sighs-. how many of you are the only one from the town who is actually applying to caltech and MIT?</p>
<p>still nothing here in san jose.</p>
<p>Rejected</p>
<p>Stats:</p>
<pre><code>* SAT: 2260
* SAT II: Math IIC 780 US 690 Chem 720
* ACT:N/A
* GPA: 4.37
* Rank: N/A
* Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB): Calc AB 5, Chem 5, USH 4, Bio 3, psych 5
</code></pre>
<p>Subjective</p>
<pre><code>* Essays: decent
* Teacher Recs: average
* Counselor Rec: same
* Supplementary Material:N/A
* Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize): N/A
</code></pre>
<p>Personal</p>
<pre><code>* Location: Northern California
* High School Type: Public
* Ethnicity: Pacific Islander
* Gender Male
* Applied for Financial Aid: N
</code></pre>
<p>Other</p>
<pre><code>* Extracurriculars: Math Club(3 yrs), Band - Drum Major, Science Olympiad (3 year), water polo (3 year), boy scouts - eagle scout, hospital volunteer
* Awards: not much... really >.>
</code></pre>
<p>Congrats to all who made it in, but for the rest of us, I'm sure we'll get into other great colleges. For now caltech will have to wait.</p>
<p>Deferred</p>
<p>I'm too lazy to list out all the details...</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>]SAT: 2220 (800 M)
[</em>]SAT II: 790 Math IIC, 750 Chem
[<em>]GPA: 3.9 UW
[/ul]Subjective[ul]
[</em>]Essays: Decent?
[<em>]Teacher Recs: Decent?
[</em>]Counselor Rec: Decent?
[<em>]Supplementary Material: None
[</em>]Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize): [/ul]Personal[ul]
[<em>]Location: Bay Area
[</em>]High School Type: Public
[<em>]Ethnicity: Asian
[</em>]Gender: Male
[<em>]Applied for Financial Aid: Y[/ul]
Other[ul]
[</em>]Extracurriculars: Robotics
[li]Awards: Nothing special[/ul]</p>[/li]
<p>Can anyone tell me how to get the tags to work?</p>
<p>I believe if you take out the space between [ and * it'll be all better.</p>
<p>nah up hur in p-town we still have'nt gotten our deal. I am guessin that it will fly on over hur like tommorow. mid west on saturday and east coast on monday.</p>
<p>It may be that I am from NJ, so excuse my ignorance, but when you say p-town I assume you mean provincetown MA, which is on the east coast?</p>
<p>Hey guys, I've been lurking for a while but decided I needed to join because I'm so excited!</p>
<p>Accepted</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>]SAT: 2280 (800 CR, 770 M, 710 W)
[</em>]SAT II: 800 Math 2, 800 Physics, 800 Chemistry, 750 US History, 540 Japanese (shouldn't have attempted this . . .)
[<em>]GPA: I'm homeschooled. For my independent study classes, my parents basically grade me (they gave me all A's). I've also taken a LOT of college classes and gotten all A's in those.
[</em>]Rank: 1 out of 1 . . .
[<em>]Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB): A lot of math competitions. Best AMC series: AMC 12 130.5, AIME 9, USAMO 11
[/ul][ b]Subjective*[ul]
[</em>]Essays: Common App essay was very good. Caltech essay wasn't well written, but it conveyed my passion for math pretty well.
[<em>]Teacher Recs: One from math team coach - excellent. One from college professor (philosophy) - probably great. One from Mathcamp instructor - probably excellent
[</em>]Counselor Rec: My parents. Typical parent stuff, I doubt they put too much weight on this.
[<em>]Supplementary Material: I sent my term paper from philosophy for some reason. I'm not sure why I included it, but it was pretty good.
[</em>]Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize): Homeschooled? I'm not sure what influence that has. [/ul]Personal[ul]
[<em>]Location: Maryland - yes, East Coast! I got the letter this morning!
[</em>]High School Type: Homeschooled
[<em>]Ethnicity: White
[</em>]Gender: Male
[<em>]Applied for Financial Aid: Y[/ul]Other*[ul]
[</em>]Extracurriculars: Few. Mainly a ton of involvement with my homeschoolers' math club and math team, general extracurricular math, and then I listed a few interests, like politics and reading.
[<em>]Awards: Math competition stuff - USAMO Qualifier, Tiebreakers at ARML, first tier Mandelbrot . . .
[</em>]Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?: They put a handwritten note on my acceptance letter: "Your math skills are impressive" :-)[/ul]</p>
<p>p-town=portland,oregon</p>
<p>Deferred</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>]SAT: 2290 (R: 780, M: 750, W: 760)
[</em>]SAT II: M: 780, Bio. E: 790
[<em>]ACT: N/A
[</em>]GPA: 4.43
[<em>]Rank: N/A
[</em>]Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB): AP: Biology 5, Comp Sci AB 4, Euro 4, APUSH 4, Calc BC 4 IB: Computer Science SL 6, Art SL 6, French SL 4</p>
<p>[/ul]Subjective[ul]
[<em>]Essays: Good
[</em>]Teacher Recs: Haven't seen, but should be amazing
[<em>]Counselor Rec: Dunno; should be at least decent
[</em>]Supplementary Material: Letter from my internship mentor
[li]Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize): Interned for 8 weeks in a Computer Science lab last summer? Does that count?</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]**
Personal**[ul]
[<em>]Location: California
[</em>]High School Type: Public
[<em>]Ethnicity: White
[</em>]Gender: F
[/ul][ul]</p>
<p>[<em>]Extracurriculars: Internship, academic summer camps, working with local challenged children, secretary of French Club, and the usual (CSF, Math club, etc).
[</em>]Awards: NMSF, Xerox Award from Rochester, Award of Excellence in Computer Science (schoolwide), Order of the Knight in math (schoolwide), AcaDeca medals.
[*]Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?:[/ul] I wish I had some advice...</p>
<p>Oh crap... i dont think i have a chance at EA, i'll probably get a letter tomorrow. hoping for the best, but ready for the worst...</p>
<p>Man I wish I got my letter already. People on the east coast are already receiving theirs!! Damn this state.</p>
<p>Accepted ^_^</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>]SAT:2390
[</em>]SAT II: Math2 800, Chem 800, Physics 800
[<em>]GPA:4.48
[</em>]Rank:1/306
[<em>]Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB): highest AMC 12: 103.5, highest AIME: 5; APs (all 5): Comp Sci AB, Chemistry, Calc BC, Physics C M, Physics C E&M, Art History, English Lang
[/ul]Subjective[ul]
[</em>]Essays:meh? admissions guy liked it tho...
[<em>]Teacher Recs:1 great, 1 good, 1 meh
[</em>]Counselor Rec:decent
[<em>]Supplementary Material: research report
[</em>]Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize): HA! ._. i wish...
[/ul]Personal[ul]
[<em>]Location: CA
[</em>]High School Type: Public
[<em>]Ethnicity: Asian
[</em>]Gender: F
[<em>]Applied for Financial Aid: Y
[/ul]Other[ul]
[</em>]Extracurriculars: science bowl, math club prez, science club prez, chem club prez, piano, hospital volunteer, tutor, AP Chem TA, ocean science bowl, summer research
[<em>]Awards:9th place national science bowl, 3x aime qualifier, other unimportant science awards
[</em>]Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?:Caltech is 6th on my list...wait is on for MIT![/ul]</p>
<p>Accepted
Stats:[ul]
[<em>]SAT: 2340 (M:800 CR:800 W:740)
[</em>]SAT II: Math 770, chem 780, lit 730
[<em>]GPA: 4.2 (Weighted)
[</em>]Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB): AP Calc BC, Chem, Comp Sci AB, Euro, Bio, Physics C Mechanics, Stats, English Lang are all 5s
Physics C E&M and APUSH 4</p>
<p>[/ul]Subjective[ul]
[<em>]Essays: I was pretty proud of them. I tried to make them creative and funny.
[</em>]Teacher Recs: I think they were good
[<em>]Counselor Rec: good i think
[</em>]Supplementary Material: Internship mentor rec and 2 technical papers of research work I've done
[li]Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize): Research</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Personal[ul]
[<em>]Location: Northern CA
[</em>]High School Type: Private
[<em>]Ethnicity: Asian Indian
[</em>]Gender: Female
[li]Applied for Financial Aid: N</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Other[ul]
[<em>]Extracurriculars:lots... mostly outside of school. I like to read so book club, and various math competitions, tkd, piano, lots of community service, mun and speech, and research
[</em>]Awards: nothing too spectacular or nationally recognized
[li]Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?:[/ul] I wish this year wasn't so hard college-wise and I know that a lot of well-deserving people should get this opportunity. I wish everyone a lot of luck and I know that everything will work out for the best! Good Luck!!</p>[/li]
<p>:) <3</p>
<p>Accepted</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>]SAT: 2380 (M: 800, CR: 780, W: 800)
[</em>]SAT II: 800 MIIC, 790 Bio-M, 770 World
[<em>]ACT: N/A
[</em>]GPA: 4.0 UW, 4.25? W
[<em>]Rank: 4/573
[</em>]Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB): World History (5), Statistics (5), Biology (5), Eng Lang (4), US History (4), AMC 12 (88.5)
[/ul]Subjective[ul]
[<em>]Essays: I really liked them, and they were fairly easy for me to write.
[</em>]Teacher Recs: Haven't seen, but most likely good/excellent
[<em>]Counselor Rec: Haven't seen, but most likely amazing
[</em>]Supplementary Material: Science Research Paper from summer program
[<em>]Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize): um...Summer Science Program?[/ul]Personal[ul]
[</em>]Location: Northern California
[<em>]High School Type: Public
[</em>]Ethnicity: Asian
[<em>]Gender: Female
[</em>]Applied for Financial Aid: N[/ul]Other[ul]
[<em>]Extracurriculars: Marching Band, Flute Section Leader; Interact Club, Vice-President; MATH Club, Secretary, Co-President; Competitive Civics; Volunteering at hospital, Projects Leader, Associate Shift Leader; Peer Tutor; CSF; Summer Science Program; Music Ambassador to Europe
[</em>]Awards: NMSF, AP Scholar w/ Distinction, RYLA, math awards[/ul]</p>
<p>Good luck to everyone!</p>
<p>Accepted</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>]SAT: 2330
[</em>]SAT II: 2330
[<em>]ACT: n/a
[</em>]GPA: 3.9 UW
[<em>]Rank: 15/600, estimated
[</em>]Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB): AP[USH (5), World History (5), English Lang (5), Bio (5), Chem (5)]
[/ul]Subjective[ul]
[<em>]Essays: Decent, I suppose.
[</em>]Teacher Recs: Waived right to see, but I'd guess good-not-great.
[<em>]Counselor Rec: Waived right to see, but I'd guess good-not-great.
[</em>]Supplementary Material: Extra letter from SSP prof.
[<em>]Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize): None. Although now I seriously think SSP (Summer Science Program, that is) is considered a hook in Caltech admissions... I'm not complaining, though :P
[/ul]Personal[ul]
[</em>]Location: CA
[<em>]High School Type: Public, doesn't have a great record of sending kids to top colleges
[</em>]Ethnicity: Asian
[<em>]Gender: F
[</em>]Applied for Financial Aid: Y
[/ul]Other[ul]
[<em>]Extracurriculars: Marching Band, library volunteer, MAO, CSF, blah can't remember. Some leadership positions sprinkled in there.
[</em>]Awards: NMSF, AP Scholar (w/ Distinction?), a few insignificant ones
[<em>]Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?: I still can't believe that I got accepted. Normal people get into Caltech, too, even with a B in--</em>le gasp*--a science class! I'm immeasurably happy :) Good luck to everyone else!![/ul]</p>
<p>it sucks that they dont practice affirmative action, i will try hard like everyone else!</p>