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Caltech Class of 2029 Official Thread - College Confidential Forums Quote from someone a few years ago “Caltech typically waitlists around 600 students, and around 450 students accept a position However, 0 people got off the waitlist The year before, 47 students were accepted off the waitlist, which still is around a 10% acceptance rate
Caltech Class of 2029 Official Thread - California Institute of . . . @Alphaaaaaa I’m not certain of the rate, but I attended Caltech Up Close and one of the AOs there told me that “very few” students get deferred, I would guess the number is around 20 students total, maybe 1-2 get accepted but it may depend on other stuff To my knowledge Caltech doesn’t really set a hard “quota” of how many students
Caltech vs Harvey Mudd - College Confidential Forums Caltech requires twelve total classes in Humanities and Social Sciences (at least four of each) Mudd requires “at least 11” courses in Humanities, Social Sciences, and the Arts The way these are distributed is somewhat different but the overall weight given to non-science classes is not markedly different
Caltech vs MIT - College Search Lists - College Confidential Forums Caltech students are equally successful in getting into grad schools, industry jobs, start-up jobs and the financial sector Whether you major in math or physics, no employer is going to look at you as a perspective employee in better light because you went to MIT over Caltech (if you think you want to study architecture that is a different
Caltech Class of 2029 Official Thread - College Confidential Forums I really didn’t have time to prepare a portfolio because my school is very strict on mid year grades My awards are also too common for Caltech, USAMO Bronze, USAJMO Honor, ISEF Finalist, 1580 (super scored, 1550 single highest) + 4 0 UW, NMSF, didn’t publish any research, no summer program, no portfolio + research submission
Caltech Class of 2029 Official Thread - College Confidential Forums I was curious so checked (Search “common data set” and Caltech to find more years of data) For the last 3 years that are available, Caltech waitlisted about half as many as were admitted, and accepted very few of the waitlist Fall 2023: Accepted 412 Enrolled 266 Waitlisted 213 Opted into waitlist 199 Admitted from waitlist 0 Fall 2022
MIT or Caltech for Math Physics Academia? The Caltech course seems to be quite a bit more challenging than even the harder of the two MIT courses That surprises me a little bit because both are based on Apostol’s book (which is an excellent book) Caltech’s course is also a required course for every Freshman while the harder of the two MIT courses is optional at MIT
Caltech Class of 2028 Official Thread - California Institute of . . . This is complete hearsay, but I heard somewhere that Caltech RD results come out earlier than MIT (usually released on Pi Day) which also supports a March 9th decision date A couple days before the date, they should release an equation to solve for the exact decision time