How Caltech selects its students

<p>You have 28000 applicants. 2000 are admitted. 5 to 6 times that is 12000. So which part of the group did the rejected candidate fit in? The 5 to 6 times or totally unqualified? </p>

<p>We had a pool. we had a smaller pool that we thought were fully qualified. You are rejected. Sounds very appealing.</p>