<p>I've read a lot of chances posts, but those were the posts of ppl, who didn't get in yet
so i'm wondering, what were your stats when you were accepted? (along with EC's)
thanks</p>
<p>Lesse...</p>
<p>GPA: 4.3 (or something) out of 4.67
SAT 1590 plus a bunch of 700+ SAT IIs ( i think there was an 800 i physics)
courses (I'm only listing the more "useful" ones, not those required at my HS:
highest available math (AB, BC, multivariable), Phys B and C AP, comp sci A AP, micro and macro economics AP, english literature and language AP</p>
<p>EC stuff:
FIRST robotics junior and senior year, fencing at a local club, band/jazz band/ full orchestra, plus the usual bunch of pointless ecs like honors society
oh yeah... and national merit finalist</p>
<p>Summer research:
SSTP at University of Florida (after s'more year)
YSP at Florida State University (after junior year)</p>
<p>White female from south florida, in case you think that matters</p>
<p>Got into Caltech, MIT, Olin, UF, waitlisted at Stanford. I'm betting on the robotics and the research getting me in.</p>
<p>cool...did you get all 5's on AP's?</p>
<p>si1verdrake, what year did you do SSTP?</p>
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<p>um... 2002... yeah, that'd be summer after sophomore year.</p>
<p>oh, I just finished frosh year at Tech, for those who were wondering.</p>
<p>thanks, si1verdrake!
anyone else?</p>
<p>i just wondered cause i did SSTP in '03 and one of my friends (who did SSTP in '03 also) did YSP in '04, so you wouldn't know either of us...</p>
<p>For my part...</p>
<p>5.3/6.0 GPA, which translates to a 4.0/4.0
Highest math, physics, cs available (Calculus AB, Ph B & C, CS A & AB)<br>
never got a 5 on any AP test, got 4s on Calc, CS A, and Ph B, 3s on the other two
SAT: 1470, 800 math, 670 verbal
SAT IIs: 800 in physics, 7?? in math IIC</p>
<p>EC:
BEST robotics senior year; Exploravision (?) writing contest junior year; Secretary of science club for 3 years; math, science, and cs UIL (a texas thing) competitions since 6th grade, including state in CS my junior year; the other random general things that most people have like NHS, national merit (maybe commended? don't remember); varsity swim team for 3 years</p>
<p>No summer research, or job of any kind</p>
<p>I'm a white female, and a rising senior at Caltech. Hope this helps, though I have no clue what tech looks for in accepted students.</p>
<p>thanks, 42penguins
btw, your post for the Caltech Requirements is niiice he-he</p>
<p>anyone else? lol</p>
<p>Well, I wasn't going to post these (because I hate it when people list stats), but 42penguin's post on the other forum inspired me. I'm basically in the exact same situation she was coming in and I'm also a rising senior.</p>
<p>First of all, I switched schools after sophomore year and went to TAMS for my last two years (which basically meant I was only taking classes at the University of North Texas)</p>
<p>GPA: 4.0/4.0 (top 10%) at TAMS, 4.3/5.0 at previous school (#3/800)
SAT I: 710 Math, 800 Verbal in 10th grade, didn't take it a second time
SAT II: 780 Ma IIC, 800 Ch, 800 Writing (I think)
Took Calc-based physics, up through multivariable calc, and the advanced ch (all at a college campus)
Since I took college courses, I only had one AP (from sophomore year) on which I got a 3
EC: school tour guide, calculus tutor, and a year or two of a couple other clubs like math club, debate club, and latin club -- nothing serious and no offices, NMSC finalist
No research.</p>
<p>that's cool...
thanks to you guys, CalTech became more tangible (spelling?) for me :)
thanks </p>
<p>however, i'm looking forward to hear about some more stats :)</p>
<p>mmmmmmmmk... :) why not.</p>
<p>I applied early and was admitted; I was notified that I was an Axline at the regular admissions mailing time. The only change in my application between early and regular was that my SAT math went up. At the time I applied early, my SATI 's were 730M, 800V (silly carelessness). My "final" stats were:</p>
<p>SATI: 790M, 800V</p>
<p>SATII: 800 Math IIc, 800 Phys, 800 Chem, 800 Writing</p>
<p>AP: Calc BC; Chem; Physics B; Physics C Mech&EM; US History; English Literature; Econ (Macro). All 5's.</p>
<p>Valedictorian of a medium-sized high school class at a good school... 4.3/4.0</p>
<p>Advanced classes: Took Multivariable Calculus (A+), Advanced Linear Algebra (A), Advanced Electricity & Magnetism (A), and Russian Literature (A+) at Princeton University. Good recs from math profs.</p>
<p>Research: Siemens Westinghouse semifinals with a computer vision project that I sent to Caltech. Not great, not terrible.</p>
<p>wow....wow :)
oooki....what can i say?..thanks!</p>
<p>btw, do you have Russian background? :)</p>
<p>Ben, are you still doing research in computer vision?</p>
<p>Hi manyhats!</p>
<p>It's funny, I haven't been back to that field since high school, but I keep noticing, somewhat wistf-ully* the various groups at Caltech that are in it -- there's a Vision Group in the Electrical Engineering department, some Computer Scientists working on very interesting vision-type problems, etc. My girlfriend is doing a SURF in computer vision for a computational biology professor (teaching a computer to classify nanostructures from microscope images). They're all doing such interesting and sophisticated work, really at the forefront... it really would have been magical to work with a lab like that when I was a high school student; I'm even tempted to maybe look at some summer jobs...</p>
<p>... on the other hand, it would be a bit of a detour from what I've ended up in. My summer work this year is in mathematical economics, modeling corporations using dynamical systems theory (differential equations and the like) and trying to find some high-level optimization schemes. I think I've "found myself" in that I really love this sort of work along the lines of operations research -- really nice math and a lot of practicality.</p>
<p>Hmm, that was a long answer to a short question :)</p>
<p>--
* If I try to type "wi****lly", it doesn't let me. s t f u are bad letters to put together, apparently. Just a little funny, hehe.</p>
<p>Admitted early action, I'm an entering freshman (as in, just graduated high school). I think my "OMG WILL I GET IN??" post is still around here somewhere, I was told I had a middling chance.</p>
<p>SATs: M 800, V 760, took them once
SAT IIs: M 800, W 800, Ph 790
APs: CompSci (the harder one, I forget what it's called), Physics C, Calc BC, World History, English Lang., all 5s
GPA: UW 3.87/4.00, W 4.53/5.00</p>
<p>ECs: wushu (a Chinese martial art), theatre, ACSL for two years</p>
<p>Research: summer project at UMCP, which was informal, not with an established program...Intel semifinalist (though I was admitted before they found that out)</p>