<p>Waitlisted…does anyone know about Caltech’s waitlist? Is it like usual schools where you almost have no chance of getting in? Or am I just really disillusioned rigth now?</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.admissions.caltech.edu/uploads/File/WaitlistFAQ.pdf[/url]”>http://www.admissions.caltech.edu/uploads/File/WaitlistFAQ.pdf</a></p>
<p>From last year’s blog. Also, as I noted above, last year’s waitlist closed by mid May which means they filled their class quickly with few taken from the waitlist.</p>
<p>Every school seems to have rather different policies with waitlist and how many people get taken from the waitlist differs quite dramatically from year to year. If I remember last year MIT had something like 700 on the waitlist and took like 60.</p>
<p>Rejected</p>
<p>Don’t really feel like posting all my stats again, they are in page 2 (I was deferred). I’m actually surprised by how little I care. I think the fact that I got rejected because I wasn’t good enough is comforting in a way (instead of because some athlete, legacy, etc was chosen instead). Anyway, I got a likely from one of my schools, and still have 7 more to hear from. </p>
<p>Congratulations to the accepted, and good luck to my fellow rejectees (I don’t really know what to say to the waitlisted people)!</p>
<p>Yesssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss</p>
<p>Waitlisted</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>]SAT: 690R, 730M, 750W (2170 Composite)
[</em>]SAT II: Math II - 620, 740 (retaken); US History - 670, 710 (retaken); Literature - 590, 700 (retaken); Biology M - 680; Biology E - 660
[<em>]GPA: 3.976 UW, 4.47 W
[</em>]Rank: 2 out of ~300
[<em>]Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB): Modern World History - 4; Biology - 4; US History - 4
[/ul]Subjective[ul]
[</em>]Essays: Common App essay was about me migrating from the Philippines; Supplement essay was about my interest in minesweeper and engineering/computers. Looking back, I don’t think I put in much effort on the short answers.
[<em>]Teacher Recs: Stellar
[</em>]Counselor Rec: Stellar
[<em>]Supplementary Material: Submitted research report from summer program, and additional recommendation letter from mentor
[</em>]Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize): None
[/ul]Personal[ul]
[<em>]Location: CA
[</em>]High School Type: Public, rarely sends kids to Ivies
[<em>]Ethnicity: Asian (Filipino)
[</em>]Gender: Female
[/ul]Other[ul]
[<em>]Extracurriculars: President of 3 school clubs (one of which I co-founded), Team Captain of Mock Trial team, Editor-in-chief of school publication, Youth Media Journalist of an online blog
[</em>]Awards: Coca-Cola Scholar Semifinalist; QuestBridge National College Match Finalist; NCWiT Aspirations in Computing National Runner-Up/Bay Area Affiliate Winner
[*]Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?: Waitlisted – I’m okay with this. Knowing the cailber of the Caltech applicant pool, I applied to Caltech with the expectations that I would get outright rejected. However, this probably means I’m going to get rejected from MIT too. 
Oh well; I’m crossing my fingers and hoping for at least something good on Pi Day! [/ul]</p>
<p>Accepted
Stats:[ul]
[<em>]SAT: 2090 (M:700, CR:680, W: 710) I actually got a 2350 (W: 750) in January, but didn’t send it because CalTech doesn’t accept this test date. I.e. 2090 was the score they saw.
[</em>]SAT II: MathsIIC-800, Physics: 750
[<em>]ACT: NO!!!
[</em>]GPA: 5.9 (1-6 scale, where 6 is alot more difficult than A in the US)
[<em>]Rank: 1 / 200 - top 3 ranked school in the country
[</em>]Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB):
[/ul]Subjective[ul]
[<em>]Essays: Difficult to say. Thought my CommonApp essay was pretty poor, and my main supplemental essay equally uninspired. Didn’t like my honor answer or the something you find funny either, really.
[</em>]Teacher Recs: Their opinion of me shone through, yet they didn’t write the standard, good rec with examples etc. It was more of a statement of capabilities.
[<em>]Counselor Rec: Good - more extensive than the Teacher Recs.
[</em>]Supplementary Material: None
[<em>]Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize): No, not really. Think it might’ve helped me that I’m from Scandinavia as opposed to Asia.
[/ul]Personal[list]
[</em>]Location: Scandinavia
[<em>]High School Type: Public
[</em>]Ethnicity: White
[li]Gender: Male</p>[/li]
<p>Extracurriculars - some sports, work, volunteering etc.</p>
<p>Glad I got in! Congratulations to all others who got in - maybe I’ll see you in Pasadena next year!</p>
<p>ACCEPTED!!</p>
<p>Objective:
- SAT I: N/A
- ACT: 32; 33 superscored; M-35, R-33, S-31,E-33
- SAT II: 800 (Math II); 800 (Chemistry); 800 (Physics); 800 (Biology M); 740 (US History)
- Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.9ish
- Weighted GPA (out of 5.0): 4.3 ish
- Rank: 2 : was 1 until this past semester
- AP :
World History: 3
Calculus AB: 5
U.S. History: 4
Biology:5
English lang: 4
Physics B: 5
Physics C E&M:5
Physics C Mech: 5</p>
<p>Subjective:
- Extracurricular:
Physics Research @ UC Davis
Science Bowl team captain
Camp Counselor
Tutoring Calculus and Physics
Water Polo team manager</p>
<p>Essays:
I wrote about family and their flaws (drug addiction, suicide, promiscuity(my mother had 6 children, all of which were raised by other family members or foster care)), and my physics research.</p>
<ul>
<li>Summer Activities: Taught myself Calculus (2009), Audited Vector Analysis and Physics @ Davis</li>
<li>Teacher Recommendation: ok</li>
<li>Counselor Rec: ok</li>
<li>Additional Rec: N/A</li>
</ul>
<p>Other
- State (if domestic applicant): CA
- School Type: Public
- Ethnicity: Caucasian
- Gender: M
- Income Bracket: <$30,000
- Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): First generation</p>
<p>[ size=+1][ color=red][ b]Rejected[ /b][ /color][ /size]</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>]SAT: 2030 ( 600 CR, 770 Math, 660 Writing )
[</em>]SAT II: Math 2 790, Physics 750, Chemistry 760
[<em>]ACT: no
[</em>]GPA: UW 4.0
[<em>]Rank: top 3%
[</em>]Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB):
[/ul]Subjective[ul]
[<em>]Essays: pretty good … or so I thought
[</em>]Teacher Recs: Great
[<em>]Counselor Rec: Great
[</em>]Supplementary Material:
[<em>]Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize):
[/ul]Personal[ul]
[</em>]Location: Asia
[<em>]High School Type:
[</em>]Ethnicity:
[<em>]Gender male
[/ul]Other[ul]
[</em>]Extracurriculars: National tennis player, guitar, swimming, MUN’s etc etc
[<em>]Awards:
[</em>]Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?:[/ul] I think my testing scores let me down</p>
<p>though its my first rejection not a very bright start</p>
<p>Accepted</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>]SAT: 2300 (first sitting) 800W, 730R, 770M
[</em>]SAT II: 800 chem, 800 physics, 800 math 2
[<em>]ACT: no
[</em>]GPA: 4.0 unweighted, 4.21 weighted
[<em>]Rank: tied for 5th with my brother, top white student, top student taking 7 classes all 4 years (out of ~270 students)
[</em>]Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB):5 ap chem, 5 ap phys b, 5 ap enviro, 5 ap lang comp, 100.5 AMC12
[/ul]Subjective[ul]
[<em>]Essays: My CommonApp essay was, I think, an extremely well-written essay about how being an identical twin affects my life, my caltech specific essays weren’t as good, I wrote a supplemental essay in the “anything else” section about playing the saxophone and how music is important to me
[</em>]Teacher Recs:one from my chem/ap chem teacher and science bowl coach who I TA for-she wrote a seriously good letter that took her like 20 hours, one from my english 3 honors teacher who is really good at writing
[<em>]Counselor Rec: I don’t know if this was good, I never really knew her and she retired after fall semester…
[</em>]Supplementary Material: A recommendation letter from a current caltech undergrad who is my mentor in the Caltech SHArKs research program
[<em>]Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize):none, really
[/ul]Personal[ul]
[</em>]Location: CA
[<em>]High School Type: small public
[</em>]Ethnicity: White
[<em>]Gender: Male
[/ul]Other[ul]
[</em>]Extracurriculars: Science bowl for 3 years on a team that regularly goes to DC, lots of concerts in my high school jazz band that went to New York last year for being in the top 15 high school jazz bands
[<em>]Awards: Nothing really
[</em>]Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?: I’ve wanted so badly to go to Caltech since I started learning about it, and I am truly surprised and thankful that I was accepted.[/ul]</p>
<p>[ *]SAT: 2020 (740M, 690W, 590CR)- single sitting
[ *]SAT II: 780 Physics, 770 Math 2
[ *]ACT: None
[ *]GPA: None
[ *]Rank: First decile
[ *]Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB): A Level Math- A, Physics-A, AS Chemistry-A, AS Biology-A
[ /list][ b]Subjective[ /b][ list]
[ *]Essays: To me they were OK but to the adcoms they were not.
[ *]Teacher Recs: Didn’t see those.
[ *]Counselor Rec: Didn’t see it.
[ *]Supplementary Material: None
[ *]Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize): A Level Math distinction.
[ /list][ b]Personal[ /b][ list]
[ *]Location: Asia
[ *]High School Type: Private
[ *]Ethnicity: International
[ *]Gender: Male
[ /list][ b]Other[ /b][ list]
[ *]Extracurriculars: Can play the Guitar and work in a Test taking company.
[ *]Awards: National DS Award, Academia gold medalist in A Level Biology.
[ *]Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?:[ /list] Caltech’s not my choice. So I am not that hurt.</p>
<p>Waitlisted, don’t feel like posting stats right now.
They said something about strengthening the application…is there a point to that? When and if they choose people from the list will it just be random or will we be re-evaluated?</p>
<p>Hopefully all you people who got accepted go to MIT :D.</p>
<p>Accepted</p>
<p>Stats:
SAT: 2130 (one sitting) 750W, 580R, 800M
SAT II: 800 M2, 730 CHEM
ACT: no
GPA: dunno. 3.9ish unweighted
Rank: not rank
Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB):5 ap calc bc, 5 ap phys c mech, 127.5 AMC12
Subjective
Essays: Pretty good i’m assuming
Teacher Rec: the one from my calc teacher was kinda braggin, listed the activites i’d done, awards i’d received, etc. the one from my eng&history teacher prolly did add some points
Counselor Rec: I’ve no idea
Supplementary Material: Performing Arts violin 10+ yrs; research paper on computer sci
Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize):none </p>
<p>Personal
High School Type: public
Ethnicity: Asian
Gender: Female </p>
<p>Other
Extracurriculars: Orchestras, math team captains, research at university
Awards: AMC first place in state, 'tho screwed up on the AIME everytime i did well on the AMC, so never got qualified USAMO
Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?: I really have no idea how i got into Caltech cuz of my freakin low CR score on the SAT. So i’m guessing my essays and recs were good</p>
<p>Rejected</p>
<p>[/list]Stats:[ul]
[<em>]SAT I: 1800: CR - 540, M - 730, W - 530 (cumulative of 2 tries)
[</em>]SAT II: Math L2C - 750 (in 2 tries), Chem - 730, Phy - 700
[<em>]ACT: Not given
[</em>]GPA: Don’t remember, around 4.03/4.50 I think (unweighted)
[<em>]Rank: 1/17 (only my A-Level class, my school has other systems with total of 141 people)
[</em>]Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB): Gave GCE A-Levels (British equivalent of APs you can say); Math - A<em>, Phy - A, Chemistry - A, AS-Levels in Economics - A and General Paper - A. Gave IGCSEs as well, result was 6 A</em>s and 1 A. Also took TOEFL - 104.</p>
<p>[/ul]Subjective[ul]
[<em>]Essays: Were great in my opinion, not sure of the CalTech specifics. Not that they were bad but I think I may have included something which kinda stood me in a bit of “bad” position. (writing about a brawl)
[</em>]Teacher Recs: Excellent
[<em>]Counselor Rec: Great
[</em>]Supplementary Material: Didn’t had any.
[li]Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize): None</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Personal[ul]
[<em>]Location: Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
[</em>]High School Type: Private
[<em>]Ethnicity: Pakistani
[</em>]Gender: Male</p>
<p>[/ul]Other[ul]
[<em>]Extracurriculars: Tutoring privately since 4 years, MUN in senior year, Attended Qur’an recitation program in local mosque, Helping teacher after school, volunteered for door-to-door donations as part of MSF, trained in a football club’s camp for 3 months.
[</em>]Awards: NYUAD CW finalist, AIS Humaid Al-Mazrouei Award for Mathematics, MARRS International Spelling Bee State Level participant (school level finalist as well), ACER Global Achieve Exams
[li]Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?: Well I’m honestly from a family who can’t afford much (only $45000 for a family of 6). CalTech wasn’t one of my top choices, I’m bit disheartened since I’m out of school now for a year (because of family probs and I couldn’t apply abroad in my senior year), and I got rejected twice to a place I applied before as well. CalTech’s my third rejection, but I’m a bit nervous now.[/li]In my opinion, I don’t think my essays could’ve hurt, prolly my scores and the fact that I asked for a lot of financial aid (CalTech is NOT need-blind for internationals).
I just hope for a green light from MIT. [/ul]</p>
<p>Accepted</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>]SAT: Not sent.
[</em>]SAT II: 800 Math II, 800 Physics
[<em>]ACT: 35 (34 Eng, 36 Math, 36 Science, 32 Writing, 12 Essay)
[</em>]GPA: 4.0
[<em>]Rank: 1 (of 1)
[</em>]Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB): 150 AMC 12, 150 AMC 10, 8 AIME, USAMO Qual x2
[/ul]Subjective[ul]
[<em>]Essays: Competitive. By no means bad, but I don’t imagine I got in because of them. Common App was about my research and what I get out of it (this description might not do it justice).
[</em>]Teacher Recs: Very strong, they were from UC Professors.
[<em>]Counselor Rec: N/A
[</em>]Supplementary Material: Research paper that was published in a journal.
[<em>]Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize): 110 college credits at UC. Anti-hooks: Jewish, and upper-middle class.
[/ul]Personal[ul]
[</em>]Location: CA
[<em>]High School Type: Homeschooled, but full-time at local UC
[</em>]Ethnicity: Caucasian
[<em>]Gender: Male
[/ul]Other[ul]
[</em>]Extracurriculars: Research (three different projects), Judo, Tutoring university students in math, philanthropy fundraising, briefly ran a (small) finance venture, Russian
[<em>]Awards: Misc. undergrad research awards, above awards, others…
[</em>]Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?: Work hard. [/ul]</p>
<p>Rejected</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>]SAT: 2260 (670CR, 800M, 790W)
[</em>]SAT II: 800 Chemistry, 800 Math Level 2, 770 Physics
[<em>]ACT: N/A
[</em>]GPA: 4.0
[<em>]Rank: 1/495
[</em>]Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB): 11A’s in O Level, 6 A’s in AS Level, Predicted 5A<em>'s in A Level
[/ul]Subjective[ul]
[</em>]Essays: I thought they made me stand out…guess not.
[<em>]Teacher Recs: One from math teacher was amazing, the other from English teacher was OK I guess.
[</em>]Counselor Rec: Beautiful. Almost made me cry.
[<em>]Supplementary Material: Research paper that I did with math teacher.
[</em>]Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize): 2x NMTC (Pakistani equivalent of USAMO) qualifier (maybe?)
[/ul]Personal[ul]
[<em>]Location: Pakistan
[</em>]High School Type: Private, very competitive
[<em>]Ethnicity: Pakistani
[</em>]Gender: Male
[/ul]Other[ul]
[<em>]Extracurriculars: A lot of math and science related ones. Plus some non-geeky ones.
[</em>]Awards: National Spelling Bee Champion, 4th in Pakistan in Kangaroo Math (equivalent to AMC 12), Top in World in O Level Math + Add Math, Top in Region in Stats, Best 7 and 8 O Levels in Region
[*]Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?: Oh well, I guess it just wasn’t meant to be. There are a lot more deserving people than me on CC alone. Congrats to those who got in! 
[/ul]</p>
<p>Accepted</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>]SAT: 2380 (800 CR, 800 M, 780 W)
[</em>]SAT II: 800 (bio), 800 (chem), 800 (world history), 800 (math 2)
[<em>]ACT: didn’t take
[</em>]GPA: 4.00 UW, 4.29 W
[<em>]Rank: 6/~500
[</em>]Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB): 5 (Bio, World History, US History, Stats, Chem, German, English Lang)
[/ul]Subjective[ul]
[<em>]Essays: wrote my common app about my love for reading speculative fiction (I thought this was my strongest); wrote my caltech long essay about visiting Los Alamos Labs; my others were iffy, and I didn’t feel like they were strong
[</em>]Teacher Recs: one was from a template, one was from a teacher that really liked me and said it was her best ever
[<em>]Counselor Rec: my counselor doesn’t know me, so I think it was pretty generic
[</em>]Supplementary Material: none
[<em>]Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize): none that I can think of
[/ul]Personal[ul]
[</em>]Location: East Bay California
[<em>]High School Type: large public school
[</em>]Ethnicity: Chinese
[<em>]Gender: Male
[/ul]Other[ul]
[</em>]Extracurriculars: marching band, jazz band, wind ensemble; spring musical; science olympiad; science bowl; math club; UC Davis COSMOS program; We the People
[<em>]Awards: National German Exam, some regional Science Olympiad medals
[</em>]Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?:[/ul] Honestly, I wasn’t expecting anything. My application doesn’t have anything special to it, and I thought that I would be one of those people that meet the qualifications but don’t have that extra zing to it that merits acceptance. I’m super excited to go to prefrosh weekend. Congratulations to everyone that got accepted, and good luck to everyone!</p>
<p>Accepted</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>]SAT: 2370 (800 CR, 770 M, 800 W)
[</em>]SAT II: 800 Math II, 780 Chem, 770 Bio M
[<em>]ACT: N/A
[</em>]GPA: 3.95 UW, 4.31 W
[<em>]Rank: 7/600
[</em>]Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB):
[/ul]Subjective[ul]
[<em>]Essays: Wrote on the last day, so definitely average at best.
[</em>]Teacher Recs: Decent
[<em>]Counselor Rec: Decent
[</em>]Supplementary Material: Research paper from internship
[<em>]Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize): Siemens Semifinalist(?)
[/ul]Personal[ul]
[</em>]Location: East Bay California
[<em>]High School Type: Public
[</em>]Ethnicity: Chinese
[<em>]Gender: Male
[/ul]Other[ul]
[</em>]Extracurriculars: Berkeley Internship, Middle School Science Coach, DECA, Science Olympiad, a few volunteering clubs (leadership in all), Piano, Taekwon-Do
[<em>]Awards: Siemens, Regional Science Olympiad, Science Fairs, DECA State level, misc.
[</em>]Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?:[/ul] Don’t plan on attending, but am pretty honored to be offered a spot in the 2015 class. Congratulations to all who got in! Good luck to everyone else this month.</p>
<p>Deferred–>Accepted</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>]SAT: 2390 (790 CR)
[</em>]SAT II: 800 Math 2; 800 Physics; 780 US History
[<em>]ACT: 35, but basically irrelevant.
[</em>]GPA: 4.9
[<em>]Rank: Valedictorian
[</em>]Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB): Just APs: 5 [5]/5/5/5 (Calc BC [sub]/Language/US History/Physics)
[/ul]Subjective[ul]
[<em>]Essays: Very well-written…content-wise for Caltech (science, etc.) they, like I, were lacking.
[</em>]Teacher Recs: Great; added in a third (from a summer engineering-type class when I was deferred.)
[<em>]Counselor Rec: Great.
[</em>]Supplementary Material: Not that I recall.
[<em>]Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize): Also, not really. I had an internship, but no real substantive research or anything.
[/ul]Personal[ul]
[</em>]Location: CA
[<em>]High School Type: Public.
[</em>]Ethnicity: White.
[<em>]Gender: Male.
[/ul]Other[ul]
[</em>]Extracurriculars: Several hobbies in which I’m fairly accomplished. I think sounding a little quirky helped (for me it wasn’t really a choice). Also, ~250 total hours of community service through a few organizations.
[<em>]Awards: National Merit Finalist, various small debate awards, Convention multiple times for piano (up to level 9), local awards in my other hobbies.
[</em>]Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?: I have a really big decision to make. Caltech was tentatively my #1, but I’m going to try to be careful about choosing.[/ul]</p>
<p>Accepted
Stats:
SAT: 2270 (740 CR, 740 M, 790 WR)
SAT II: Math II- 790, Chem 770, Bio 780
ACT: 35 (Math-32, Reading-35, English-36, Science-36, Writing-10)
GPA: 4.33
Rank: about 5/500? not really sure
Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB): IB Chem-6, AP Chem-4
Subjective
Essays: I’m not really sure. I don’t consider myself a very good writer, but I wrote about topics that are unique to me.
Teacher Recs: didn’t read
Counselor Rec: didn’t read
Supplementary Material: research paper, recs from research mentor and piano teacher
Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize): Questbridge/low-income?
Personal
Location: Oregon
High School Type: Public
Ethnicity: White
Gender: Female</p>
<p>Extracurriculars - sports, volunteer, piano, research</p>
<p>I really didn’t think I had a chance, especially with a 740 in math. Anyway, I am so excited right now and I hope to be able to visit campus soon. Congrats to all other admits!</p>
<p>Accepted</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>]SAT: 2210 (only sitting) 750M, 700CR, 760W
[</em>]SAT II: 800 Phys, 790 Math II
[<em>]GPA: 4.0 unweighted
[</em>]Rank:1st decile
[<em>]Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB): CAPE [A Level equivalent] Physics, Applied Mathematics, Pure Mathematics & Chemistry
[/ul]Subjective[ul]
[</em>]Essays: My common app essay was on the global energy crisis which was something that I feel very passionately about and I think that that came across. My caltech main supplemental essay was focussed around who I was and what aspects of my life showed my interest in science and math but I didn’t think that it was an exceptionally great read. The honor code essay was well done but the humour essay was kind of done last minute and it was less of an essay and more of a showing of a funny essay that a friend wrote [I checked it just now and there was a typo! Idk how I got in…].</p>
<p>[<em>]Teacher Recs: These were really great. My math teacher had been teaching me in a small group setting for 4 years and my english teacher was really close with me during my last yr of school.
[</em>]Counselor Rec: This one was great too. My principal asked me for some help with it so there was a lot of material that I wanted to note about myself.</p>
<p>[li]Supplementary Material: I handed in two research papers that I had done for my Applied Mathematics course [one in grade 11 and one in grade 12]. I also submitted a report on a solar panel construction project but this was around mid-year form submission time.</p>[/li]
<p>[<em>]Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize): President’s Gold Medal Winner [Highest academic award for a highschool student in my country], First place graduating student in country in Mathematics, built a solar panel on my own, Taught the Physics class that I was a part of.
[/ul]Personal[ul]
[</em>]Location: International: Caribbean Island
[<em>]High School Type: Religious
[</em>]Ethnicity: Caribbean
[<em>]Gender: Male
[/ul]Other[ul]
[</em>]Extracurriculars: Pure Mathematics Tutor, Physically Active, Student Council President, Mathematics Olympiad Classes
[<em>]Awards:President’s Gold Medal, 1st Place in Trinidad and Tobago Mathematics Olympiad 2009
[</em>]Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?:I really did not expect to get in. Of all the schools that I applied to, given caltech’s small freshman intake, I thought that it was the least likely to offer me admission.
I advise applicants to really be passionate about something when they’re writing their essays and write about that if in doubt about what topic to go with.[/ul]</p>