<p>I am wait listed.
Do I have any chance?</p>
<p>possibly. it has happened in previous years, I don’t know anything about this year.</p>
<p>will know in about two weeks.</p>
<p>crossing my fingers. at the moment, i’m treating it like a rejection in order to not get hopes too high.</p>
<p>to be clear, they’ll let us know if we didn’t get in, right?</p>
<p>^ This would be nice to know.</p>
<p>Oh, and does anyone know how they notify waitlisted applicants? Do they just send an email?</p>
<p>I am still waiting with HOPE
I turned down UCLA, UCB, UCI, UCD, CalPoly SLO;
SIR to UCSD.</p>
<p>Oh wow, you turned down UCLA and UCB for UCSD?</p>
<p>I SIR’d to Cornell for now. We’ll see how things go. (:</p>
<p>SIR to Duke, turned down Harvey Mudd and Rice</p>
<p>starting to regret turning down Mudd. still praying. has anyone gotten anything yet? I’m scared my mom deleted the messages on our home phone or something absolutely silly like that.</p>
<p>I haven’t gotten anything yet. ): I’m still hoping someone will post here if they get off the waitlist.</p>
<p>Does anyone know if Caltech’s using the waitlist this year?
Dartmouth announced that they’re going to the waitlist</p>
<p>Err, there’s nothing about it on the Admissions website. </p>
<p>But last year, they didn’t use the waitlist at all, so I’m just treating it as a rejection.</p>
<p>^ That is not true. Last year several people were accepted off of the waitlist. </p>
<p>While your chances are not super high (also depends on the yield this year), they are not nonexistent. Write a letter of continued interest and send in any additional information that you think might help. Best of luck to you!</p>
<p>Edit: Addressing some of the other questions - I believe you receive a call as notification if you are accepted followed by an e-mail. Otherwise you are most likely eventually sent a rejection letter.</p>
<p>Oh right, thanks for the correction. I got confused from reading too many old CC threads. Nevertheless, it has happened before, so it’s still something to take into account. Sorry for the mistake!</p>
<p>Thanks for the information about the notification method too. (:</p>
<p>^^ interesting, for last year at least it would have made a better sense to me if they didn’t take anyone off waitlist as the dean seemed to blame the much too high freshmen enrollment to the shortage of on campus housing when the parents asked, worried about their children having to go the off campus housing as sophomores. But it is still not clear to me if the shortage of housing is according to their plan (such as a slightly increased UG enrollment and delayed housing build) or if they expected a smaller enrollment but surpirsed by too many freshmen (about 245 last year? not sure). But then again, the caltech UG size has been at just under 1,000 for the last thirty years as I know or perhaps for a much longer time, this housing shortage is a puzzle to me.</p>
<p>Anyway whether anyone is taken off the waitlist will be up to the yield … which may be getting higher due to the top ranking in THE survey etc, so better to keep hopes in check</p>
<p>^ It actually seems to me like more people than usual were accepted off of the waitlist last year.</p>
<p>Also, the housing problem should be, for the most part, solved with construction of the new house.</p>
<p>What is this about a housing shortage and construction of a new house? S will be an entering frosh next year and this is he first we have heard about it.</p>
<p>^ All freshmen are guaranteed housing in one of the 8 on campus houses. </p>
<p>Sophomores have lowest priority for living in house, and are generally forced to live on-off or off-campus. This includes Marks/Braun Houses (about five steps away from the on campus houses), some on-campus apartments (not right next to the other houses, but given the small size of campus not very far away), or off-campus apartments (I do not want to say that these are really far because they aren’t, but they can be very inconvenient and are a few streets away from campus).</p>
<p>There is probably more information about these at the housing website here: [Caltech</a> Institute Housing](<a href=“http://www.housing.caltech.edu/undergrad/facilities.asp]Caltech”>http://www.housing.caltech.edu/undergrad/facilities.asp)</p>
<p>Caltech recently received a pretty large donation from the S. D. Bechtel, Jr. Foundation, and is planning to construct some kind of residence with it - [S</a>. D. Bechtel, Jr. Foundation Gives $25 Million to Enrich Campus Life, Outreach Programs - Caltech Media Relations](<a href=“News | www.caltech.edu”>http://media.caltech.edu/press_releases/13491) - that would probably alleviate the problem.</p>
<p>Just got an email - they won’t be taking any more people from the waitlist (though it was unclear whether they took anyone at all - I’m inclined to think that, like MIT, the answer is no :()</p>
<p>I just got the same email. 
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<p>Has anybody been accepted from wait list?</p>
<p>I too got the email. oh well. making it to the waitlist at all was an achievement for me. if they took nobody, then I can at least take solace in the fact that we were all released together. </p>
<p>on the bright side, I don’t have to think about college anymore.</p>