<p>I am hoping some people at Caltech can give their advice.
I will be coming to the Prefrosh event on Thursday April 2nd but I have a competition I must go to on Saturday. I can either leave Friday night or at 4:30 am Saturday morning.</p>
<p>Is it worth getting up so early on Saturday to be there Friday night?</p>
<p>I did come and do Caltech in a day because I was not sure I would be able to attend Prefrosh Weekend at all.</p>
<p>I am hoping this and other school's prefrosh events will help me decide which school is the best fit for me.</p>
<p>What time would you be leaving on Friday night? If you can, I'd try to leave campus after 7 PM on Friday night, so that you can attend the house dinner. You'll get to attend a house dinner on Thursday night as well, but the one on Friday will be at a different house. That's the only specific thing I know you'd miss if you left friday night.</p>
<p>If you don't mind not sleeping, you should leave really early on saturday because there will be fun things to do until about 2am on friday night/saturday morning (all of the houses have events- capture the flag, deconstruction, games, casino night etc etc). If the competition is really important to you though, you might want to leave early so that you don't get sucked into that trap.</p>