<p>Congratulations to Alea, you got the home run. :P</p>
<p>@CEMaverick we’re in the same boat my friend.
Accepted at UIUC, deferred from Michigan (Computer Engineering). :D</p>
<p>Would you be attending? I think I’ll still wait for the RD results from the other Unies…</p>
<p>Techfreakdude, I’ll take the liberty of replying for him. Yes, he is definitely attending UIUC. It was his top choice.</p>
<p>Anyone else who applied EA at Michigan getting the feeling that they defer like almost EVERYONE?! I read somewhere about this thing with Michigan. Now I’m seeing it first hand haha…</p>
<p>@Tizil UIUC is one of my top choices as well. I’ll only turn it down for either Berkeley or CMU.</p>
<p>Congrats to ccparent1, the Indian parent from Texas. MIT and CalTech - fantastic! :D</p>
<p>OH MY GOD. We almost lost this valuable thread to the second page.
Everyone else (newcomers). This is the place we discuss the things you are making new threads for. Stick here.</p>
<p>^helping Tizil. bumpity-bumpity-bump</p>
<p>^ aww, what a friend! :D</p>
<p>Why would someone, who got into MIT and CalTech, be interested in Columbia?
I thought premeds avoided places like Columbia, Swarthmore and UChicago.</p>
<p>I dont know about MIT but most premeds do and should be discouraged from attending Caltech. They have no grade inflation whatsoever and it is very very hard to maintain a good GPA and since med school places great emphasis on grades people should definitely think hard before coming to Caltech.</p>
<p>Gohan, I thought CalTech and UCSD had some sort of joint program and it was relatively easy to get into med school that way. Is it limited to just a few?</p>
<p>Yes they do have the joint program but many students are not able to get in to that program. And then it becomes rather difficult to get into good med schools because of Caltech’s very strict grading. I imagine a similar case for U Chicago.</p>
<p>There are 6 seats for Caltech and UCSD. I understand the first group of students who made the program (2007 was the first year?) all chose to enroll at UCSD this year according to a Caltech posting.</p>
<p>Before ushering into the new year, how is everyone’s applications going? Finished by now, I hope :p</p>
<p>How many colleges ** in the US** did all of you apply to?</p>
<p>I applied to 12: UCB, UCLA, UCSD, MIT, Georgia Tech, CMU, Caltech, Cornell, Stanford, Columbia, Brown and UPenn.</p>
<p>I am feeling extremely happy right now :D</p>
<p>Happy new year to all and good luck on the applications</p>
<p>From what I have read here on cc, grade deflation at those tough schools occurs mostly during the first year. The girl who took us on campus tour at CalTech told us that they give pass/fail grade during first trimester to let incoming students get adjusted to the rigorous environment.</p>
<p>OT: Wish you all a happy new year!</p>
<p>Nope its hard to maintain good grades throughout at Caltech. And yes there’s pass-fail first two terms to help people get used to the workload but you can never really get used to it :P</p>
<p>Are you sticking strictly to the MIT word limits? I submitted essays which exceeded the limit, but which appeared fine and untruncated in the preview. Stupid me?</p>
<p>MIT stops you from having more than 100 words in your essays. That’s what they did to me. I had to remove one word to conform :P</p>
<p>I am not sure if they are stick as strictly to the 200-250 word essay. But for the 100 word one, the limit is binding.</p>
<p>How to submit extra info after submitting the app? Something like olympiad levels? How to tell that to the adcoms?</p>
<p>Email them individually.</p>
<p>Thanks Tizil.</p>