<p>Can't find it anywhere :S</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>Last year, it was about 2 weeks from now. Good luck!</p>
<p>I heard that last year, MIT and Caltech applicants got their decisions the same day, so I'd assume the decision date is March 17.</p>
<p>Caltech mails decisions, but MIT is giving them out online now. MIT is giving online decisions on the 17th, but they probably won't reach people by mail 'till about the 21st.</p>
<p>Of course, that depends where you are in relation to the respective school. Caltech should really consider posting results online...</p>
<p>Yeah, especially considering that some of us live halfway across the world from Caltech. :\ Mine probably won't even reach me before May 1, knowing Indian post.</p>
<p>I think international admits either receive their admission by speedy courier or email.</p>
<p>I am pushing for an online system also, but there are concerns about security which have to be dealt with before that can happen.</p>
<p>Security concerns? Such as what? Wouldn't it be fine to just make a username and a password for every applicant and send the username and password to that applicant by mail (but not by e-mail)? I believe that's what MIT does, and there don't seem to be many downfalls in such a system.</p>
<p>Of course, this wouldn't be possible until next year, because you can't just be able to claim to be a person online and view that person's decision... that's a serious security concern, obviously.</p>
<p>(Purely as a point of interest, said security concern is pretty rampant where I come from. :D Our tenth-grade public exam results are accessed simply by typing in one's roll number, and they're serialised a class -- naturally, everyone looked at everyone else's grades.)</p>
<p>I have my doubts about couriering -- priority delivery from the UK took ~15 days to reach me, after all! -- but that does sound more comforting than regular post.</p>
<p>phuriku -- that would be the system if we implement it (<--- my personal educated guess). Recall that this is the first year MIT is doing it, so it took them a while too :-)</p>
<p>Is anybody here certain about the medium through which Internationals get their decision?</p>
<p>I'm an international student, and three years ago, I received no email or express mail, just a regular slow envelope. It was the last one I received, but they may have gotten better at it since then.</p>
<p>Ben: Actually, MIT did the online decisions thing last year as well.</p>
<p>Expanding on the topic, I think Caltech should set up a system where the applicants can be more informed of the progress of the admissions team online. Throughout the entire admissions process, I've only received 1 or 2 e-mails, and they really haven't been that informative -- they're only necessary for people who haven't turned in all their materials.</p>
<p>It may not be Caltech's 'style' to do such a thing, but even setting up a blog like UChicago's would be nice since it would inform the user base much better. The only thing that would be required would be a short weekly update. (UChicago's is here: <a href="http://uncommonapplication07-08.blogspot.com/%5B/url%5D">http://uncommonapplication07-08.blogspot.com/</a>.) I realize something like MIT's blogging system probably wouldn't be appropriate because Caltech just doesn't seem like the school to do such things... the students probably wouldn't have time anyhow.</p>
<p>Being informed also makes the applicant feel less distant from the school he is applying to. Perhaps the matriculation yield rate would even go up if Caltech would communicate with its user base more frequently and in a better fashion than periodic e-mails. Plus, communication relieves the stress that comes from the admissions process. Despite the fact that I have a much better chance of getting into Caltech than MIT, as my professors have told me, I feel much more comfortable with my MIT application, almost solely because of the contact I've had with MIT through its updates. This was the same last semester before I got into UChicago.</p>
<p>This system would also be beneficial in that applicants could communicate with each other better through the 'comments' system. Even though Caltech is my 1st choice, I've talked a reasonable amount of time with about 20 MIT applicants, about 10 UChicago applicants, and 0 Caltech applicants. Once again, this just enhances the awkwardness that comes with the admissions process and, although I am exempt from this, I'm sure many students take their relationship with other admits to a given college when deciding which college to matriculate into.</p>
<p>Just a suggestion...</p>
<p>I understand many years back students admitted will be informed by Director of Admission by phone. Am I correct?</p>
<p>Usually it was alumni or students who would call, but we do mail now because it's just a little too haphazard and some people would find out someone else got a phone call and get very anxious, even though they would get their own in a few hours. So it's probably less stress to do it by mail.</p>
<p>As for phuriku's suggestions -- thanks! Your perspective is actually very, very helpful. I'll pass your ideas along to the relevant powers.</p>
<p>Yeah, actually, admissions and student blogs from Caltech would be really, really cool. There are so many awesome things about Caltech I had no idea of before I came, just because they weren't being communicated.</p>
<p>I'd write a student blog for Caltech if they decided to do this.</p>
<p>That would be fun to read, lizzardfire. I would have written one too. The thing typically said by admissions is that Techers are too busy, but with all the time wasted procrastinating and doing silly things, surely some would be happy to take pictures of Caltech life and write things about it, etc. If we got an organized group to volunteer, I think we might convince admissions... maybe we can talk offline sometime.</p>
<p>If I get in, I would volunteer as well. (I'm sure many people would volunteer, though, so I would be up against some stiff competition just to qualify as a blogger.) A freshman's outlook on things would probably be helpful to high school senior applicants, though.</p>
<p>Yeah! Caltech feeble online presence, lack of portals etc id very very conspicuous... wonder I dind't even get any confirmation that my app was complete......</p>