<p>Congratulations to all acceptees! If you haven’t already, join the official Facebook group so that we can meet each other!</p>
<p>What is the official Facebook group called? I can’t seem to find it…</p>
<p>^Caltech Class of 2017</p>
<p>Accepted</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>]SAT: 2340, single sitting.
[</em>]SAT II: 800 Math 2, 800 Chemistry
[<em>]ACT: 34 (36 math)
[</em>]GPA: 4.702/4, 3.92/4 unweighted.
[<em>]Rank: 2
[</em>]Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB): AMC 12A 103.5, AMC 10A 114.5 AIME 4. AP Chem, Phys B, Calc BC, Human Geo, Stat, Psych are all 5’s.
[/ul]Subjective[ul]
[<em>]Essays: I thought they were good-very good.
[</em>]Teacher Recs: Not really sure, but I think they’re at least pretty good.
[<em>]Counselor Rec: Awesome counselor, very good.
[</em>]Supplementary Material: Submitted abstract of my research paper.
[<em>]Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize): AIME Qualifier? National Math awards, Regional/state piano awards, traveled to China to teach English twice.
[/ul]Personal[ul]
[</em>]Location: Florida
[<em>]High School Type: Public
[</em>]Ethnicity: Asian
[<em>]Gender: Male
[/ul]Other[ul]
[</em>]Extracurriculars: Research at university for two years on nanotechnology, piano for 13 years, Math team consistent winner at state and national level, NHS, founder of my music ministry, occasionally cover/compose and improvise piano songs. All-county band as freshman (quit for GPA reasons). President of Asian Student Association. Was a member of Brain Bowl. Traveled to mountainous areas of China and taught students/teachers around the province English (2 years). Leader of youth group, worship pianist for both English and Chinese service.
[<em>]Awards: YSP, NMSC, AP Scholar, Sunshine State Scholar Alternate, AIME qualifier, Various Mathematics awards regional/state/national level, various musical awards state/regional level
[</em>]Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?: Very surprised I got in. I honestly think that the essays are what play a major role in the admissions process.[/ul]</p>
<p>My S is a freshman at Caltech and the EA accepted/deferred/rejected submissions on this board last year were very similar to those I have seen so far this year. It may come as a surprise to many that some people who look really good on paper here did not get in, while some people who do not look nearly so good did get in. From this you might think that the Caltech admissions process is capricious. But what I think this really shows is that you have to read each application in its entirety to get a real feel for why some people got in, others were deferred, and still others rejected. This, of course, is exactly what the admissions people do. The rough sketches you find on this thread are only a very poor substitute.</p>
<p>Deferred</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>]SAT: 2340
[</em>]SAT II: Math 2-800 Physics 800
[<em>]GPA: 3.82 UW, 5.06 W
[</em>]Rank: 14/328
[<em>]Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB): a ton of AP, but relevant ones: Calc AB/BC 5, Physics B 5, PHysics C MEch/E&M 5
[/ul]Subjective[ul]
[</em>]Essays: I thought they were really good at the time, but looking back…
[<em>]Teacher Recs: Should be good, one from physics teacher who often makes comments about how i belong at Caltech/MIT and is also friends with admissions at MIT, other from Music teacher who I’ve had for 3 years and knows me well
[</em>]Counselor Rec: probably extremely impersonal, i don’t know her, although I did get her mad recently…
[<em>]Supplementary Material: Research paper on heat transfer and fluids, presented at the International Mechanical Engineering Congress & Exposition
[ *]Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize): eh… the IMECE? I forgot to include in my app though…
[/ul]Personal[ul]
[</em>]Location: South Florida
[<em>]High School Type: Magnet School, frequently rated in top 10 by Newsweek/US News & World, very strong Math/Science program
[</em>]Ethnicity: Asian
[<em>]Gender: Male
[/ul]Other[ul]
[</em>]Extracurriculars: Founder of physics club, orchestra, vice president of Tri-M music honor society, swimming, research
[ <em>]Awards: USPhO semifinalist, some regional/state science fair awards, congressional award silver medal, national merit, national ap scholar
[</em>]Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?:[/ul] Pretty disappointed, Caltech was one of my top schools and home of my hero Richard Feynman, but there’s still a chance for me and the rest of us deferrees. I thought my passion for physics could get me in, but I neglected math, which i regret a lot now.</p>
<p>Accepted</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>]SAT: N/A
[</em>]SAT II: Math 2 - 800, Physics 780
[<em>]ACT: 35 (E36, M36, R33, S36)
[</em>]GPA: 4.7083
[<em>]Rank: None (Top 5%)
[</em>]Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB): AP 5’s on Calc BC, Physics B, Computer Science, Bio, Eng Lang, APUSH; AMC tests highest scores: AMC12: >110, AIME: 10, USAMO 14.
[/ul]Subjective[ul]
[<em>]Essays: I thought they were solid, but I can’t really judge them. Did I write well? Yeah. Were they over the top? No.
[</em>]Teacher Recs: One from my most recent/advanced math teacher, also coach of math team, also proctored my USAMO, also is a ARML coach. Another from my junior year english teacher, the best english teacher i’ve ever had.
[<em>]Counselor Rec: Probably very generic. My counselor I had a very good relationship with retired last year.
[</em>]Supplementary Material: An extra letter of rec from a math summer program (I don’t want to give away identity)
[<em>]Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize): USAMO i guess. I wouldn’t call other things “hooks” per se…
[/ul]Personal[ul]
[</em>]Location: Chicago Suburb
[<em>]High School Type: Huge public school
[</em>]Ethnicity: White
[<em>]Gender: Male
[/ul]Other[ul]
[</em>]Extracurriculars: Besides AMC/AIME/USAMO, NHS, other math team stuff (through school as well as ARML), peer tutor, another big leadership program which is hard to explain, camp counselor, ice hockey
[<em>]Awards: NM commended (the one before semi…one math question off xD), some stuff through school like honor role
[</em>]Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?:[/ul]</p>
<p>Accepted</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>]SAT: 2400 (11E) Single Sitting; Superscore 2400 (12E)
[</em>]SAT II: Chemistry (800), Math II (770), Biology M (750), USH (790), Chinese (800)…I highly recommend NOT taking this many!
[<em>]ACT: n/a
[</em>]GPA: 3.9/4.0 UW, 5.2/4.0 WGPA (max weighted is 5.3)
[<em>]Rank: 2/463 but school does not report it (counselor told me for fun)
[</em>]Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB): 5s on Chemistry, Calc BC, Biology, Environmental Science, US History, Chinese</p>
<p>[/ul]Subjective[ul]
[<em>]Essays: I like what I wrote but there’s always room for improvement, of course.
[</em>]Teacher Recs: They made me cry (my AP Chem and APUSH teachers are awesome).
[<em>]Counselor Rec: Who knows? She loves me, but it’s her first year at the high school.
[</em>]Supplementary Material: CMU transcript (took differential equations and intro to psych), additional mentor letter from the researcher I worked under.
[li]Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize): lols, uh, Asian pride?</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Personal[ul]
[<em>]Location: Pennsylvania
[</em>]High School Type: Public, mainly white, pretty high up there
[<em>]Ethnicity: Chinese
[</em>]Gender: Housecat, as determined by my rifle team</p>
<p>[/ul]Other[ul]
[<em>]Extracurriculars: Rifle (like, pew pew), crapton of violin stuff because I love it (seriously, even using Times New Roman size 11 font single spaced, I covered almost half a page in my resume), science club-bowl-research (3 seperate activites), student gov (homeroom rep), and film club (just for the hell of it because I like movies)
[</em>]Awards: Eh, nothing fancy like USAMO or ISEF, but a decent share of national, regional, and school awards in a variety of things. Oh, and the standard AP Scholar and NMSF awards.
[*]Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?:Well, that took longer than necessary to find out for me 
. I had to wait until today after receiving the announcement email on Saturday, December 8 to contact the admissions office and sort out an issue with not being able to login. I really want to compete for the medical scholars program they have in collaboration with UCSD (no sign of any notification yet but there is still time), but either way, I’m extremely happy I got in! Good luck to everyone else (and those in the future that venture upon my post)! 加油！[/ul]</p>
<p>Deferred.</p>
<p>Stats:[/list]
SAT: 2280 superscored (720 CR, 790 Math, 770 Writing)
SAT II: 800 Physics, 780 Math 2, 800 US History
GPA: 5.07 weighted, 4.0 unweighted
Rank: 1/817
Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB): 55555554
[/list][ b]Subjective[ /b][ list]
Essays: average. spent the minimal time on them. “why caltech” was weak.
Teacher Recs: okay. math teacher was probably brutally honest.
Counselor Rec: not good. i had a terrible letter writer (large public school)
Supplementary Material:
Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize): female interested in engineering</p>
<p>Personal
Location: SoCal
High School Type: large public. mostly white and latino.
Ethnicity: Asian.
Gender: female.
Other
Extracurriculars: head drum major for band, trombone, piano, research, neurosurgeon shadowing, principal chair for youth orchestra, soup kitchen
Awards: Honor Band of America, all state band, NMSF, National AP award, regional piano awards, school department awards
Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?: My essays were not very well developed. I’ve written many essays for other schools that were a lot better. I’m waiting for MIT results, which will come in four days!</p>
<p>Hey how do I access my Caltech account? I applied Early action. Please help</p>
<p>Palladin124 if you were really a caltech potential you’d problem-solve you’re way to victory ;)</p>
<p>All jokes aside, yeah, it was crap to try to find it, especially because my email put all emails from caltech into a junk folder which i can’t access. It took quite a bit of work to find it. </p>
<p>That said, here’s the link: <a href=“https://apply.caltech.edu/account/login[/url]”>https://apply.caltech.edu/account/login</a>
If you don’t know your password, juts do a forgot password. the login email is your commonapp email. If you aren’t receiving emails from caltech, adding their admissions email to your contacts solves the spam problem. When you do forgot password, they send an email about recovery.</p>
<p>Good luck!</p>
<p>Anyone receive any news about their medical scholars program yet?</p>
<p>Nope…still waiting on that too.</p>
<p>Accepted</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>]SAT: 2370 (800M 770CR 800W)
[</em>]SAT II: 800 IIC, 800 Chem, 800 Physics
[<em>]GPA: 3.9
[</em>]Rank:2/130 (boarding school, usually sends top 15-20% to ivies/top schools)
[<em>]Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB): 142 AMC12, 12 AIME, 21 USAMO, MOSP; also 13 AP’s and took multivar, lin alg, abstract analysis, complex analysis
[</em>]Intended Major: Mathematic/Economics/Chemical Engineering
[/ul]Subjective[ul]
[<em>]Essays: Really like them 
[</em>]Teacher Recs: asked my classics teacher who I’ve known for the past 4 years. He was a true mentor to me.
[<em>]Counselor Rec: Good
[</em>]Supplementary Material: Research in Chemistry, as well as a link to my math blog (has about 4000 hits)
[<em>]Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize): none (legacy at MIT though)
[/ul]Personal[ul]
[</em>]Location:
[<em>]High School Type: private/boarding
[</em>]Ethnicity: white
[<em>]Gender male
[</em>]Income: ~$1M
[/ul]Other[ul]
[<em>]Extracurriculars: Math Team Captain, rubik’s cube speed solver (7.2 second solve sent in), developed algorithm to manage funds have grown $2000 seed money into $5000 over two years.
[</em>]Awards: USNCO top 50, USAMO x2 USJMO x 1 MOSP AIME x 5 (qualified in 8th grade :D)
[*]Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?:[/ul] Good luck to all, and I can’t wait for MIT decisions in a few days too. Probably won’t attend though (hoping for Harvard )</p>
<p>I feel smarter just being in the same thread as you</p>
<p>Maybe we’ll meet in pasadena lol?</p>
<p>Aren’t you going to harvard?
I’d also be considering some other colleges
But if we meet (maybe doing putnam stuff), I’d be ecstatic</p>
<p>Deferred</p>
<p>Stats:</p>
<pre><code>SAT: na
ACT: 35
SAT II: 800 Math, 800 Phy, 800 Chem
GPA: UW: 3.8, W: 4.66
Rank:2/281
Other Tests: 5s on: Phys B, Calc BC, Phys C’s and Chem
</code></pre>
<p>Essays: Teacher Recs: Strong Counselor Rec: Pretty good,
Personal</p>
<pre><code>Location: NJ
High School Type: Average public
Ethnicity: Indian
Gender: M
</code></pre>
<p>Other</p>
<pre><code>Extracurriculars: Math Club (4 years, national placings as a team, state placings as a school, etc), swim team captain, Marching band
Awards: National AP Scholar,
</code></pre>
<p>Posting for son:</p>
<p>Decision: Accepted</p>
<p>Objective:[ul][<em>] SAT : 800/730/800/10
[</em>] SAT I superscore 2330 - took only once
[<em>] ACT : 36M/36S/35E/35R/10W
[</em>] ACT superscore - 36- took once
[<em>] SAT II : Math 2 800, USHistory 800, Chemistry 800
[</em>] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0)3.99
[<em>] Weighted GPA:
[</em>] Rank : 1/590
[<em>] AP : Calculus BC (5), Physics B (5) US History (5) Music (5) Biology (5) Chemistry (5) Econ Macro (5) Econ Micro (5) European History (5) Statistics (5) English Literature (5)
[</em>] IB : Economy SL (6). Also took a year of physics (for scientists and engineers) and a year of math (multivariable calculus, linear algebra) at a local college.
[<em>] Senior Year Course Load: IB Math HL, IB World History, IB English HL, IB Chemistry HL, IB Film HL, TV Production, AP/IB Spanish, TOK.
[</em>] Number of other EA applicants in your school: supposedly 18 (!)
[<em>] Major Awards : DECA National - top 10 scorer, AIME since 8 grade, awarded math camp in Europe through MathKangaroo, always in top 6 at state math contest, Governor’s award for accomplishment in math x 4, many awards at state HS film festival, public service announcement run in local movie theatres - interviews on local TV as a result.
[</em>] Common Awards : NMSF, National Ap Scholar, [/ul]</p>
<p>Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] Extracurriculars (name, grade levels, leadership, description): ARML since 8th grade- team captain, founded school’s competitive math club - Mandelbrot, Math League, varsity crew x 3 years - team captain, boy scouts, violin x 14 years, piano x 8 years , filmamaking since 8 grade.
[</em>] Job/Work Experience: private film contractor with State Department of Transportation, tutors privately as well as for a tutoring company, Mobile DJ, web designer
[<em>] Volunteer/Community Service: worked 3 summers at International Archery Competition (about 150 hours total), volunteering through church group, Boy Scouts and NHS.
[</em>] Summer Experience: both summers worked , last summer math camp in Europe as an award, film making competitions, the summer before last worked as a web designer and marketing coordinator at uncle’s startup company[/ul]</p>
<p>[<em>] Other (teacher’s subject, 1-10 rating, details):[/list][li] Teacher Recommendation #1: Math Teacher - never read but should be good[/li][</em>] Teacher Recommendation #2: History teacher - did not read but a counselor said it was superb
[<em>] Counselor Rec: really liked him, should be good
[</em>] Additional Info/Rec: additional letter from varsity crew head coach
[li] Art Supplement: url to his website that showcases his movies as well as his compositions and Mobile DJ business [/list] </p>[/li]
<p>Other[list]
[<em>] Date Submitted App: a day before deadline
[</em>] U.S. State/Territory or Country: UT
[<em>] School Type: public
[</em>] Ethnicity: white
[<em>] Gender: male
[</em>] Income Bracket Range: middle class</p>
<p>Deffered at MIT.</p>
<p>Does anyone know many days later the medical scholars notice comes out? Or is the qualification notice supposed to come with the regular admissions notice?</p>