<p>Sorry to all of you who got deferred - I hope that they haven't gone back to the "old" model where they just deferred a whole bunch of people. Last year (and maybe the year before?) we just rejected a bunch of people instead of deferring them, if we were fairly confidant that they woudln't get in. But that was under an interim director last year, so the new guy might prefer the defer model. I guess time will tell. Congratz on the acceptance, to those who got it. </p>
<p>Galen</p>
<p>As far as we know, no one's gotten it yet, though one of my friends (in the same area as me, East Coast) got her deferral on Monday. Ben, you promised us stats! How many accepted? And did they mail everything at the same time? Because this is pretty bizarre, how a few letters arrived so early and then no one else got theirs.</p>
<p>Same situation here, I have a friend who got his deferral on monday, and I still don't have anything... I'm worried a bit, last year we had someone who got a full scholarship from Caltech and in the end decided to go to stanford... I don't think they liked that too much</p>
<p>Hi everyone.</p>
<p>Korinfox, I wouldn't worry too much about that. Most people involved in the process don't even know that, and the ones who knew it at some point don't remember it. Except in highly exceptional circumstances what someone else from your school did won't impact you, and these aren't those circumstances.</p>
<p>As for stats, I just got off the phone with the Director of Admissions, who said we're not allowed to release the internal numbers quite yet, which I'm sad about because I'd like to just give you the exact data. But I have a feeling that's from higher ups, so I can't blame him. Nevertheless, it's not a secret that as Galen pointed out we've moved to a policy of not giving pointless polite defers which will turn into rejections pretty much automatically. A nontrivial portion of the pool was denied early (which seems to be the opposte of the direction MIT went this year, reading Matt McGann's blog).</p>
<p>The benefit of this policy for you is that if you got deferred, the committee believed that there was definitely a real possibility -- often assuming that we would get some supplemental information later -- of admiting the student. The ones without a real chance just got the news now. The lesson in this is: if you get deferred, call to find out what that something else is! Often the admissions officer in charge of your file will be able to point you to something pretty specific that you could do to help your case significantly. <a href="http://admissions.caltech.edu/contact/staff%5B/url%5D">http://admissions.caltech.edu/contact/staff</a> will tell you whom to call.</p>
<p>Other than that the numbers were pretty much in line with past years, but we were a bit more cautious due to the kookiness with Harvard/Yale/Stanford single-choice early action.</p>
<p>I'll say more as soon as I can.</p>
<p>my son got an admit letter today in Texas, so it should be soon for everyone. Maybe tomorrow??</p>
<p>Good luck to everyone still waiting!</p>
<p>Admitted! Im shaking shaking shaking...
But I got deferred at MIT though. Hope that'll work out eventually!</p>
<p>ADMITTED!</p>
<p>SF Bay Area, California
800M/770V, 800 Chem, 800 Writing, 800 Math IIC, 770 Spanish Language
5 - Calc BC, Chem, Physics C (both), Spanish Language
4 - Music Theory, Euro History</p>
<p>Uhh, what else... My school doesn't rank, but I think I'm first or second in the class.
EC: piano, swimming, programming, various oddities</p>
<p>Oh guys, CONGRATS!</p>
<p>ADMITTED (and couldn't believe it...)
1570, rank 1/570ish, math upto multivar/DE/basic LA, various activities, 5 5's on APs
Quality of Essays and Recs: no idea, I'm a poor subject judge (regardless if I'm judging myself or others)</p>
<p>good luck to everyone else!</p>
<p>oh, what was the envelope size???? I want to knowwwwwwww</p>
<p>Congratulations everyone!</p>
<p>(Korin - it was a large manilla envelope. Didn't look like much from the outside. Inside is a slick silver folder with the acceptance letter and a few other sheets inside.)</p>
<p>About 10*13. It's the regular yellowish color...</p>
<p>I know... isn't it such a waste of trees? Ah well, made it really easy - looked in the mailbox, and knew right away!</p>
<p>Oh - if anyone wants to chat, I'll be online :)</p>
<p>Hi, everyone, I'm Wesley.
All the admitted folks, are you sure about attending Caltech?
If yes, tell me your names! I'd like to know you before possibly seeing you...
If no, which other colleges are you waiting for good news?</p>
<p>Personally, I'd rather go to Boston. So I'll see what happens with MIT and Harvard in April.</p>
<p>Admitted. Don't feel like posting stats. Like several here, I would rather go to MIT (for an assortment of reasons, mostly location and the lack of linguistics classes at Caltech), where I got deferred, so I'm still waiting.</p>
<p>I would be much more surprised if it had been the other way around. But at least I don't have to fill in any more apps.</p>
<p>Hey Guys!!!!!!!!!!!!
I just got admitted to CIT. It was long adventure to get there though. I called admissions and they gave me the you should get it soon please call back in a week if you still haven't recieved it, but I remembered I meet an admissions rep at my high school and he said call if you ever had a problem so I figured what the heck its worth a shot. I called him up and he seemed quite suprised I hadn't recieved anything. So he told me to hold on for a second so after about the most painful 2mins of holding music in my life he came back and said well I might as well tell you the admissions committee has decided to offer you admission at which point there was much screaming and rejoycing. Anyways moral of the story who knows your letter could have been lost in the mail to. Good luck to those of you who haven't gotten in and for those that are admitted hit me up on AIM at Born2Run16517 so we can chat about Tech or anything else. WOOHOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Now for some celebration.</p>
<p>To everyone who got in, congratulations. The process was unusually cautious and the applicant pool unusually strong. Feel free to post here or contact me on AIM (wily crabbit) with questions about Caltech.</p>
<p>To everyone who got deferred, don't lose hope. The process was unusually cautious and a bunch of the deferred applicants we will <em>certainly</em> take -- we just don't know which ones yet. Take the advice of the admissions office and call your admissions officer to see if there is anything specific the committee needs to see from you to make a decision.</p>
<p>To those still waiting -- just a day or two more, I promise. US mail sucks and mailing procedures are kinda kooky sometimes.</p>
<p>I get the impression that deferrals were mailed late last week and acceptances were mailed yesterday or monday. Is there any truth to that?</p>
<p>My letter was mailed on the 10th.</p>
<p>If that's the case, though . . . why are all these CA people getting their letters today?</p>