Caltech (2022-2023)

[lament dew]

the test was ok

[upper crater]

Time for my first rd rejection

[lament dew]

preparation for my caltech reejctiin

[upper crater]

Let’s go

[lament dew]

🥰

[fading harbor]

+1

[upper crater]

My dads alma mater

🤩

[buoyant grail]

what's discrete math anyways @lament dew

[fading harbor]

[lament dew]

it was just a ton of number theory

[buoyant grail]

i've HEARD of it maybe but i don't know why it's called discrete

[lament dew]

it was hell

[buoyant grail]

oh

[lament dew]

fuck that test

and now i have to do chem

at after midnight

[fading harbor]

Chem

[floral silo]

Sounds like good preparation for Caltech

[lament dew]

i don’t care anymore it’s getting done tmr 💀

[floral silo]

I’ve easily started half of my finals after 10pm here

[buoyant grail]

chem is fun but i'm biased because my mom is a chem teacher

[lament dew]

i’ve got an ochem packet

[buoyant grail]

my mom has a bachelors in mathematics and chem ❤️

[fading harbor]

Could you sneak in and put my application form rejected pile to accepted pile?

[buoyant grail]

@floral silo can you send me a slice of food from caltech if i get rejected <3

[lament dew]

oh my god i do this because i cram material until 9pm and ik the test will take me at maximum 3h but procrastinated this one by 30 min because i couldn’t figure out the easy way of converting large numbers between bases for addition

[floral silo]

Stealth 100

[floral silo]

Yeah by email

[lament dew]

and it went to hell 😋 but it’s ok i’ll be fine

can’t wait for caltech

[floral silo]

Hey the a2c icon is Caltech

[lament dew]

and the banner

[floral silo]

Good for us

Damn that reminds me I should consider a mega thread on r/caltech

[lament dew]

simon do you know how long it typically takes to receive the admitted students packet 👀

[buoyant grail]

why a megathread

[lament dew]

let’s say tomorrow isn’t going well and i still have a ton of work to do, but don’t want to open a rejection

[fading harbor]

🥺

[fading harbor]

You won't dw

[lament dew]

can’t open a rejection if i never open it

checkmate!

[buoyant grail]

i would be shocked if you weren't at least waitlisted

but we'll see

[inner pond]

You want one?

[fading harbor]

If Calypso is rejected then my file wasn't even looked at

[inner pond]

hmm so I could have a shot then

[lament dew]

what does that even mean 🗿

aside from caltech i’ve been grinding to hell and back the entire week

[fading harbor]

[lament dew]

got like half of my IB exams done 💀

[buoyant grail]

i have to do so much this week

i have like 8 assignments this weekend 😭

i hate having 8 classes

[lament dew]

HL essay submitted TOK essay submitted CS slides submitted EE submitted all reflections written had 2 history essays 1 chem test a bunch of physics assignments a couple chem assignments

like PLEASE i need a break

but nah work meeting tmr where i’m going to get flamed for not being more attentive this week then have to open caltech at 11:31

so it goes

[fading harbor]

Me whose trying to cram org+inorganic while finishing CS. And not to mention Math and Phy for Advance

[lament dew]

good luck NOYB

you got this

[buoyant grail]

what do you even work for

[fading harbor]

😀

[lament dew]

state government

policy research

[fading harbor]

ATB!!

[buoyant grail]

ahhh

[verbal pawn]

@floral silo is it true what they say

is caltech 40 hours of hw a week

death

no life

[next fossil]

Bruh I want them to understrmste yield

[buoyant grail]

i think i'd have fun at caltech despite maybe not doing well like other people cause i think all i want to do is learn

[lament dew]

you mean overestimate

[next fossil]

No

[lament dew]

underestimate means more admitted now

but 0 chance of wl

[next fossil]

Yeah I know

[lament dew]

overestimate means you might get off wl

[next fossil]

I thought more admitted are better

It’s a trade off I think

[pseudo kelp]

It’s better to underestimate yield so we can get in straight away

[fading harbor]

Yes

[buoyant grail]

technically the more admitted is better for everyone but the less admitted would mean people can get off wl if they're not as strong as the admitted applicants

[pseudo kelp]

Surprised checklist hasn’t disappeared

[fading harbor]

Caltech waiting for us to do Portal Astrology and sitting back to chill

[fading harbor]

Isn't this emoji cute?

[soft viper]

Not 40, but it's definitely a lot of work. However, it's definitely worth the effort if you want to really master topics of interest.

[verbal pawn]

i see

ten hours till my first RD decision!

[lament dew]

i can’t believe it’s so soon

[soft viper]

Good luck everyone

[buoyant grail]

!caltech

[haughty fox]

Caltech Decision Date

Caltech decisions come out <t:1678552260> in your local time
10 hours, 23 minutes and 17 seconds until the decision date

[buoyant grail]

Caltech! Just 10 hours away! Can you believe it, guys? Caltech is just 10 hours away!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUr0T-pf7Q4

[fading harbor]

💀

[floral silo]

Idk they prob mail them next week. Funnily enough though, my year RD never got anything, but EA got a whole nice thing

[floral silo]

I mean kinda

Depends on how you manage your time and how hard you decide to go

If you want to maintain perfect grades then yeah probably

[buoyant grail]

i feel like maintaining perfect grades will just lead to absolute burnout unless you're literally cracked in every academic sense of the word

[floral silo]

If you’re fine just learning content and not always getting perfect scores, it’s easily 20-30% less work

[fading harbor]

Were you able to sneak in??

[lament dew]

if you go to caltech and intend to get a grad degree after, do you still need to maintain a high gpa?

[verbal pawn]

idk

[lament dew]

i’ve assumed since there’s so much research built in and the classes are so difficult it’s going to be massively hard to maintain a high gpa but you get a ton more experience

[verbal pawn]

i j wanna get a good swe job lmfao

hence why idt caltech is really for me

if i got in it'd be good indicator hopefully for future RD results; that's all

[lament dew]

caltech is targeted at a small demographic

[verbal pawn]

i applied for the essay practice (8 essays!)

[lament dew]

of a large demographic of people

[verbal pawn]

and i'd go if i got rejected everywhere else

which i already didn't

[verbal pawn]

yea

astrophysics phd types

[lament dew]

me

im astrophys

[verbal pawn]

how'd i guess

[lament dew]

lol

[fading harbor]

Wow that is def a good reason to apply

[verbal pawn]

that's the type of people that actually want to go to caltech

it is

[lament dew]

id pick caltech over every other school i applied to

[verbal pawn]

i'm happy with the caltech essays

caltech vs. georgiatech would be a tough decision

i'd probably go georgiatech

luckily idt i have to make that decision!

[buoyant grail]

i'm astrophysics too <3 i want astrophysics at caltech but at the same time if i don't get in... where am i going to do astrophysics 😭

i might be forced to go to fsu if i'm rlly dedicated

[lament dew]

i won’t have to make it either—already rejected gt

💀

[verbal pawn]

💀

it's ok it's fluke trust

[fading harbor]

💀

[verbal pawn]

my uiuc rej fluke

your gt rej fluke

[buoyant grail]

HOW

[verbal pawn]

🙏

[buoyant grail]

makes me nervous af for gtech regular decisions

@verbal pawn can i read ur essays 😇

[fading harbor]

[lament dew]

everyone told me i was 110% in at gt too but

💀💀💀

[solid lynx]

Dw you’ll get in

[verbal pawn]

mb mb not

[lament dew]

i mean i applied for ae and only submitted an english rec

[buoyant grail]

nobody from my school has ever gone to gtech 😭

[verbal pawn]

no need to read if i get rej

[solid lynx]

Imagine applying to caltech though couldn’t be me

[buoyant grail]

nah i mean i wanna read ur caltech essays :p i just like reading people's essays a lot

[lament dew]

i don’t think it’s worthwhile to share essays rn

people r too nervous

[buoyant grail]

that's true

[verbal pawn]

i don’t really have any reasons not to share essays

[buoyant grail]

i mean your reason is just that you can say no 🤷‍♂️

[verbal pawn]

they’re not “personal” or whatever

[buoyant grail]

no is a perfectly good reason

anyways gl guys im going to try and sleep

[true ginkgo]

i wrote my georgiatech essays about my caltech internship 💀

[buoyant grail]

hopefully i wake up after decisions come out

[true ginkgo]

i am getting rejected

[lament dew]

caltech internship wow

[verbal pawn]

🙏

[zenith vault]

I'm predicting caltech will have the lowest acceptance rate among US schools this year. The interest online seems to be much higher this year

2.98%

[verbal pawn]

caltech has 225 class size

like bro

💀

[true ginkgo]

also i never took the act or sat and it still says they're "awaiting materials" im a whole clown

[fading harbor]

🙏

[lament dew]

how many people do you think are gonna get into caltech from this thread?

[true ginkgo]

congratulations to me on being georgia tech's auto reject. i got y'all 💪

[zenith vault]

5

[fading harbor]

2-3 ig

[verbal pawn]

that’s a bit high

well who knows

[lament dew]

5 would be generous considering they admit ~300-400 RD total

[zenith vault]

Oh wait there are only like 120 people in this thread

[buoyant grail]

i wrote my gtech essay about my childhood experience reading a college level textbook on astronomy in the 3-4th grade

[verbal pawn]

maybe 2 or something

[buoyant grail]

and why it made me love physics

[zenith vault]

You just talk too much in here

[buoyant grail]

💀

[true ginkgo]

that's some big brain stuff man
in 3rd grade i was pretending to be a cat or something, idk

[zenith vault]

1-3 will get in. My guess is 2

[verbal pawn]

lmao

[buoyant grail]

MY PARENTS JUST BOUGHT IT FOR ME AND I WAS HOOKED

[verbal pawn]

in 8th grade i was playing fortnite all day

[zenith vault]

Weren't we all

[true ginkgo]

yep 😭 relatable

[verbal pawn]

still am doing roughly the same

[buoyant grail]

in 8th grade i was playing league of legends

[steep apex]

I played Fortnite all day today 💀

[verbal pawn]

not fortnite

[true ginkgo]

i was definitely not built for hard schools

[verbal pawn]

but

[fading harbor]

In 8th grade I was only interested in Boxing lol

[verbal pawn]

lmao

[verbal pawn]

W

[steep apex]

Do you watch mma

[true ginkgo]

i wrote my common app essay on roblox 😭

[lament dew]

3-4th grade i was being basic and sitting in a room playing with legos all day by myself + reading hunger games and percy jackson

[buoyant grail]

"Eventually, for one of my Christmases or birthdays, my parents bought me the book from the Smithsonian Museum called The Universe. That was a mistake. I read that book multiple times, front to back, obsessively. I brought it to school - another mistake, because there were paintings of naked people in it, which I didn't really care about - and I had a show and tell with the life cycle of stars."

[fading harbor]

Nah not now

[buoyant grail]

me getting mad when my brother manhandled the ender dragon build i put together and broke all of it in the sum of 5 minutes 😭

the lego one, mind you

[fading harbor]

Novels❤️. Ig i've read >90 in the past 2 years

[lament dew]

oh interesting

[verbal pawn]

3.9% zamn

[fading harbor]

Was there REA Caltech last year?

[steep apex]

Nah just EA last year

[verbal pawn]

no

[buoyant grail]

i'm reading the complete persepolis rn but i'm burnt out so i'm finding it hard to read novels consistently

[true ginkgo]

relatable experience

[buoyant grail]

@lament dew I WAS RIGHT

[true ginkgo]

pointing out naked people in books as a kid

[buoyant grail]

my parents had to fucking duct tape the books pictures over to stop it 😭

[steep apex]

So in theory acceptance rate will go up but potentially less apps as well; could also just cause more rd apps and less early apps

[true ginkgo]

LMFAO

😭

[buoyant grail]

i'd imagine that because it's REA for caltech there were less applicants REA and therefore more people will get in RD

[fading harbor]

🤣

[steep apex]

Yeah that’s likely the case (hopefully)

[true ginkgo]

wait what's REA???

[buoyant grail]

restrictive early action

[true ginkgo]

restrictive?

oh

ohhh

okay

[buoyant grail]

aka you can only do EA for that one school

[steep apex]

Restrictive early action, you can only apply early to that private institution

But if you get in you don’t have to go since it’s non binding

[fading harbor]

Can't wait now lol. I wanna get over with this rejection already.

[verbal pawn]

can EA to other publics though

[buoyant grail]

^

[true ginkgo]

wait, so restrictive is non binding??

[buoyant grail]

REA = non binding early applying method
ED = binding

[steep apex]

It’s not binding but you cannot apply early to any other private institutions

[true ginkgo]

ohhh okay

makes sense

[inner pond]

If I was just another dusty record on the shelf
Would you blow me off and play me like everybody else?
If I asked you to scratch my back, could you manage that?
Like yikky-yeah check it, Travie, I can handle that
Furthermore, I apologize for any skipping tracks
It's just the last girl that played me left a couple cracks
I used to, used to, used to, used to, now I'm over that
'Cause holding grudges over love is ancient artifacts

[steep apex]

But for example if you wanted to apply early to Georgia tech, a public school, it would be fine

[buoyant grail]

yeah like if you did REA to say harvard you couldn't do REA caltech

[steep apex]

Yeah precisely ^

[true ginkgo]

thank you for the explanation

my neurons r kinda slow

[buoyant grail]

tbh when i submitted all my applications i checked 50 times to make sure i wasn't doing REA or ED

[inner pond]

hmm did you apply to Caltech?

[steep apex]

Nah all good it’s a confusing set of app types

[true ginkgo]

yes

[buoyant grail]

the college admissions process is so fucked 😭

[inner pond]

nah they fuck us

[verbal pawn]

idk why i’m so excited for this decision

i’m not even nervous

just excited

[steep apex]

Honestly I think it should just be Ed and regular decision

[verbal pawn]

i’m happy w what i got

so now every decision is j fun

potential upgrade

[inner pond]

I know I am rejected from Caltech lol

[fading harbor]

+1

[steep apex]

This is my first big decision

[fading harbor]

[steep apex]

So far only heard from state school which was a W but this is the first private 😳

[true ginkgo]

same :D

[inner pond]

Haravrd deferred me 😦

[verbal pawn]

this first private for me too

[steep apex]

Good luck bro

[verbal pawn]

i legit j don’t wanna go to caltech

[inner pond]

I am in pain from that day

[verbal pawn]

purely predictive

[inner pond]

Caltech can help me get over it

[steep apex]

Caltech W is a massive one hopefully we can all get it tomorrow

[verbal pawn]

i j wanna get in to frame the acceptance

wouldn’t attend

🚂

too hard

[steep apex]

I mainly want to go to schools in the east ngl

[verbal pawn]

me too

i’m in ny

i want driving distance ivy ideally

[steep apex]

I’m from FL

[verbal pawn]

all the ivies are 2-3h away

so it’d be great

[steep apex]

That’s so fire

Or mit

[verbal pawn]

yale is < 2 hours away

[steep apex]

Did you apply to mit as well

[verbal pawn]

yea mit my dream school

[steep apex]

W W

[verbal pawn]

yale is like 1.5h damn it’s rly close

[steep apex]

Yeah honestly at first I wasn’t even going to apply to mit but now I think it’s in my top 2

[verbal pawn]

yale would be sick

[buoyant grail]

i'm from florida too

[steep apex]

Let’s go

[verbal pawn]

mit > harvard > princeton >= yale > stanford > cmu > brown >= cornell > penn > columbia > caltech

[buoyant grail]

oh ik what i'll do if i'm rejected

[verbal pawn]

here’s my RD list

[buoyant grail]

i'll just play dragonvale

[steep apex]

Are you CS Dan

[verbal pawn]

yea

[steep apex]

Understandable list then

[verbal pawn]

from purely CS ranking perspective

it is questionable

but overall prestige > imo

like yale is better than georgiatech you can’t convince me otherwise

even if 16 vs 5 cs ranking it doesn’t matter

[steep apex]

Yeah esp if you want a liberal arts education overall yale experience will be nicer I’d assume

[verbal pawn]

oh and stanford is low because distance

the close ivies rank higher for me

can instantly tell cs from CMU being up there

lmao

wbu what major?

[steep apex]

Yeah that’s how I knew

I applied as chem or biochem depending on the school bc some of them didn’t have biochem

[verbal pawn]

ah i see

nice

[floral silo]

Grad schools understand that caltech is harder, but at least semi decent

[buoyant grail]

I applied astrophysics to most schools except UMiami where they didn't have it so I did pure physics instead

[verbal pawn]

physics is highest IQ major

[floral silo]

Yeah it’s p doable here but you do have to learn a lot of extra stem along the way, which I have personally enjoyed but isn’t for everyone

[hybrid sail]

fr

[verbal pawn]

no doubt

[steep apex]

Son is the goat

[hybrid sail]

caltech is targeted for the cs kids that want to be like alan turing or something

[hybrid sail]

no lie

[buoyant grail]

i don't have a high iq i just like learning about physics and the concepts and doing problems :p

[floral silo]

This is actually so sus ngl

[verbal pawn]

lmao why

[steep apex]

Yeah it seems like caltech is oriented on turning out scientists rather than industry ppl

[hybrid sail]

💀

[buoyant grail]

WDYM HOW AM I GOING TO DO ANYTHING W THESE ESSAYS 😭

[verbal pawn]

yea idg that

[verbal pawn]

for sure

[steep apex]

Bro is gonna crucify the essays night before decisions 😭

[buoyant grail]

i'm not like a junior trying to get essay ideas if i've already applied and it's all over

[steep apex]

Idk how but I haven’t reread any essays since a few days after submitting everything

[verbal pawn]

lmao

i’ve reread very few

[true ginkgo]

the "op" in bop stands for op

sus

[buoyant grail]

the opps

[verbal pawn]

true

[buoyant grail]

bopps

[verbal pawn]

sus

[steep apex]

Sus fs

[floral silo]

Like yes but sharing ur essays online never a good idea

[buoyant grail]

that's true

[floral silo]

I never trust randos in my Reddit dms asking

[verbal pawn]

i’m not really sure what the harm can be

[floral silo]

Like

[buoyant grail]

people reusing the idea/topic

[verbal pawn]

do you mean plagiarism?

[floral silo]

Bop isn’t who they say they are, they copy your essays, caltech gets mad at you next year

Yeah

Or they’re collecting for like a college essay example website

[verbal pawn]

i see

ig

[floral silo]

Idk there’s prob somewhere that would pay for a bunch of essays

[buoyant grail]

has this genuinely happened to people here before

that just seems insane

[floral silo]

Or training data for a college essay gpt type thing

Plagiarism yes

[steep apex]

Why would they pay for rejected essays 💀

[floral silo]

Mayb not caltech

[verbal pawn]

for swe jobs

[floral silo]

But there’s for sure a2c posts I’ve seen generally

[buoyant grail]

oh god chat gpt essay creator

[true ginkgo]

💀 ong

[verbal pawn]

they may not know caltech is ultra hard

[true ginkgo]

wait

[verbal pawn]

and then low gpa screws you over

is this accurate

[true ginkgo]

idk why it replied to the wrong thing LMFAO

[true ginkgo]

this 💀

[verbal pawn]

it’s 1:46 am and i’m going to gym at 12 pm

[steep apex]

I think most major companies and graduate schools are well aware of caltech’s reputation

[verbal pawn]

i should sleep soon

[true ginkgo]

"what not to submit in your caltech supplements" and then you see my essay

[steep apex]

So a relatively low gpa shouldn’t screw you over

[buoyant grail]

Top ten mistakes commonly found in Caltech supplements

[true ginkgo]

pray for me y'all im done for

[steep apex]

Compilation of all our essays 😭

[verbal pawn]

i’m j here for MIT tuesday man

that decision

although i got a feeling about what it is

will get me da

sad*

childhood dream down the drain

[steep apex]

Pi day gonna be a crazy day

[verbal pawn]

after school tuesday i’ll be counting down the minutes

[buoyant grail]

it's insane to me how they go all out for mit but then have to politely apologize to almost everyone

[verbal pawn]

until 6:28 pm

californians lucky 3:28 pm

[steep apex]

Nah their whole day is ruined by the potential L think about it

It being later for us is good only your night can be bad

[verbal pawn]

true

after mit and caltech rejections

need to wait 16 more days

until 7 decisions in one day

[steep apex]

I got jhu

[verbal pawn]

[steep apex]

On Friday

[verbal pawn]

oooo gl

[steep apex]

Hopefully don’t take three back to back Ls

Thank you bro good luck to you as well

[faint pumice]

if you dont get in, remember this

[true ginkgo]

good luck

johns hopkins prompts were hard

[verbal pawn]

worst outcome in next few days is caltech W mit L bc i don’t want caltech so it’s just a blueball

either take me to both or reject me to both

[verbal pawn]

LOL

true

[steep apex]

Blue ball acceptance is crazy 💀

[verbal pawn]

imagine out of 11 RD decisions

i get into the most selective school

that is also the least desirable for me

[steep apex]

Nah I don’t think that’s the worst outcome though, you still got in, worst is not getting into anything

[verbal pawn]

and then nowhere else

that’d be funny

unlikely though

[lavish kraken]

the worst part about rejections is telling my parents

[verbal pawn]

mine are alr happy

[lavish kraken]

mine pretend but i can tell they’re disappointed

[verbal pawn]

that sucks man

sorry

[lavish kraken]

yea i feel so bad cuz i dont wanna let them down 😭

[verbal pawn]

dw about em they’ll be fine

[true ginkgo]

THIS

[lavish kraken]

i hope so

[verbal pawn]

caltech for the reeearch portfolio

i submitted an abstract

[faint pumice]

same. i think my parents already knew i am not ivy league material anyways

[verbal pawn]

so it’s gg

[lavish kraken]

bruh i didnt submit anything😢

[quiet orchid]

wait wdym

[verbal pawn]

i will try sleeping again

gn y’all and good luck

with all decisions <3

[quiet orchid]

ahh ic

[pseudo kelp]

If a very small amount of people have it

Then it’s prob a good thing

[quiet orchid]

prolly true ngl

[buoyant grail]

???

how does that relate to being accepted or denied 😭

like

genuinely

[marble smelt]

alright going to sleep good luck tomorrow morning y’all 🫡

[buoyant grail]

what hidden switch leads acceptances to be that

???

[true ginkgo]

good night and good luck

[pseudo kelp]

Idk

[buoyant grail]

like genuinely give me a reason why that happening correlates to ANYTHING with decisions other than "a small amount of people have it" because you have no idea if it's a bug or not

[pseudo kelp]

Usually for these stuff

[true ginkgo]

that's what i thought too

[buoyant grail]

uchicago, few people had the form for waitlist but it turned out not to be true

people got wl'd even without having it

[true ginkgo]

i would expect caltech to have good website design and not spoil the results before they're out 💀

[buoyant grail]

i think that's different than a date changing

[true ginkgo]

LMAO

[floral silo]

Re: swe low gpa, maybe? Job market is taking a shit rn so my own data isn’t necessarily applicable. Caltech nepotism (in the good way) connections more than make up for it tho

Like you can get referred to basically every company by someone who is prob cracked

[next fossil]

Good luck everyone!

!caltech

[haughty fox]

Caltech Decision Date

Caltech decisions come out <t:1678552260> in your local time
9 hours, 15 minutes and 39 seconds until the decision date

[inner pond]

!caltech

[haughty fox]

Caltech Decision Date

Caltech decisions come out <t:1678552260> in your local time
8 hours, 41 minutes and 55 seconds until the decision date

[empty wagon]

will be sad to see this thread die after the decision hype is gone :(

[simple basin]

oh damn good afternoon

i have an friend who applied and i really want him to get in

[fading harbor]

🤞

[fading harbor]

💔

Wait was the previous msg deleted!

Or am I hallucinating again

[inner pond]

💀

are you drunk bro today

it's okay

[fading harbor]

🥂

[versed field]

lmfao

[meager bison]

just curious, why is florida tech a state school but caltech isnt?

[urban sigil]

yo some people’s application complete banner is gone and some people’s stayed

does it mean anything?

on the portal

[fading harbor]

Chill bruh decisions gonna be out soon. Portal Astrology will only bring anxiety

[urban sigil]

i saw something on college confidential bruh it freaked me out

[fading harbor]

It's okay. That is precisely why I do not use reddit or CC

[urban sigil]

see bruh

[fading harbor]

Uhh that is a message which was on this thread too lol

[urban sigil]

i didn’t see it, what are the thoughts?

the general consensus

[inner pond]

thanks for killing our hopes

[meager bison]

cathartic bullshit 101

[fading harbor]

Their data set is 20 people lol

[fading harbor]

💯

[empty wagon]

my thoughts are

just wait 7 hours

its literally coming out today

[meager bison]

!caltech

[haughty fox]

Caltech Decision Date

Caltech decisions come out <t:1678552260> in your local time
6 hours, 57 minutes and 25 seconds until the decision date

[fading harbor]

💯

[inner pond]

!caltech

[haughty fox]

Caltech Decision Date

Caltech decisions come out <t:1678552260> in your local time
6 hours, 46 minutes and 13 seconds until the decision date

[inner pond]

!ivyday

[versed field]

idk if this is true or not BUT MY APPLICATION FEE DATE CHANGED AGAIN

to fucking today

what the fuck is up with that lol

im not saying if this is true or not, frankly idc I would just wait the few hours left

but its so

fucking

like

ugh

I can’t be bothered to email them to fix it again

besides probs doesn’t matter

[meager bison]

relax

[fading harbor]

Caltech is always messing up with dates chill

[versed field]

I am fine, i aint talking about me getting in or not

I am just like, I aint gonna email em again. Like they say to email em whenever something on the portal is “incorrect” etc. to not butcher your chances or whatever

Usually I email for shit like this on the offchance it fucks my app, but

1. many people had it not just me
2. I can’t be bothered to do it again and again. Especially when I will get my decision before the reply probably

[inland radish]

Why are you people drawing conclusions about banners? This chat could easily be confused with Genshin Impact Leaks v3.6 atp
Just relax, it's a few more hours lol, good luck

[versed field]

lol

genshin impact leaks

[empty wagon]

!caltech

[haughty fox]

Caltech Decision Date

Caltech decisions come out <t:1678552260> in your local time
6 hours, 17 minutes and 2 seconds until the decision date

[stark ibex]

!caltech

[haughty fox]

Caltech Decision Date

Caltech decisions come out <t:1678552260> in your local time
5 hours, 43 minutes and 46 seconds until the decision date

[inner pond]

!caltech

[haughty fox]

Caltech Decision Date

Caltech decisions come out <t:1678552260> in your local time
4 hours and 17 seconds until the decision date

[empty wagon]

!caltech

[haughty fox]

Caltech Decision Date

Caltech decisions come out <t:1678552260> in your local time
3 hours, 41 minutes and 3 seconds until the decision date

[thorn lynx]

!caltech

[haughty fox]

Caltech Decision Date

Caltech decisions come out <t:1678552260> in your local time
3 hours, 38 minutes and 28 seconds until the decision date

[meager bison]

i love how all conversations have died down and all we have is the solemn !caltech

[fading harbor]

[lament dew]

💀 why did you even apply to caltech if you wouldn’t attend?

[pseudo kelp]

Shotgunning

[lament dew]

I attended a college “info session?” with a caltech AO and they said research placement even just in undergrad is phenomenal and grad schools understand that if you’re coming from caltech, you’re going to be well suited to attend grad (provided you don’t fail all your classes)

also unless your application portal physically says “accepted/rejected/waitlist” i wouldn’t jump to conclusions

[full moat]

!caltech

[haughty fox]

Caltech Decision Date

Caltech decisions come out <t:1678552260> in your local time
2 hours, 59 minutes and 54 seconds until the decision date

[meager bison]

!caltech

[haughty fox]

Caltech Decision Date

Caltech decisions come out <t:1678552260> in your local time
2 hours, 45 minutes and 41 seconds until the decision date

[fading harbor]

[meager bison]

[fading harbor]

[meager bison]

[fading harbor]

[meager bison]

[fading harbor]

[spice sigil]

[meager bison]

[fading harbor]

Jinx lol

[meager bison]

[fading harbor]

[meager bison]

[fading harbor]

That's already used

[spice sigil]

https://tenor.com/view/cat-catdriving-gif-22785638

[meager bison]

we're out of cat emojis, @steel falcon help

[fading harbor]

Yep we definitely need more of them

Btw,

Instead of portal astrology why don’t you astrologize your chances of going outside

[lament dew]

add more cats!!

[fading harbor]

Cats❤️

[meager bison]

cattech

[vernal snow]

🐈

[fading harbor]

🐈‍⬛

[vernal snow]

😺

[fading harbor]

😻

[lament dew]

[meager bison]

meanwhile undercover caltech aos looking at this thread and regretting any acceptances

[fading harbor]

That's already used too

[lament dew]

:(

[fading harbor]

lol

Poisoned drink

Before decisions

[meager bison]

i have a final in 2 days which which determine 14% of my senior year gpa and idk jackshit

[meager bison]

interesting story:

[fading harbor]

💀

[lament dew]

No

lol

[fading harbor]

Nope. Also, waitlist acceptance was 0 last year

[lament dew]

“if i do something that increases my chances of admission, will i be waitlisted?”

[meager bison]

once some cold drink corporation launched a simple newspaper strip in the middle east which went
panel 1: lousy man in the desert, all tried and hopless
panel 2: man drinks their product
panel 3: man's full of energy, yayyy
and the panels were placed horizontally, as in 1 ->2 ->3
the campaign proved to be disastrous bc the locals spoke a language written from right to left

[fading harbor]

Nope. Nada. Never.

[lament dew]

true

[fading harbor]

Wow

[lament dew]

💀

[meager bison]

here's some proven portal astrology:
if you have beaver breakroom you have a 96% chances of rejection/ wl-> rejection

[lament dew]

😭

[fading harbor]

Another astrology:
If you do not have beaver breakroom, you did not apply!!

[lament dew]

not true

you could’ve just

never set up your portal 💀

[fading harbor]

Still beaver breakroom exists in the database

[meager bison]

you'd still have the breakroom tho

[fading harbor]

Yep

[meager bison]

yep

[fading harbor]

Learning assembly language is a pain!!

[meager bison]

isnt everything

[fading harbor]

But I need to get marks in boards💀

[upper crater]

Caltechd website design is ASS
it took me too long to find a club list

Its fucking ugly

[meager bison]

yeah i have to go through 382 pages of p.e. too

[upper crater]

How u gon be a tech school with shit ui

[fading harbor]

🫂

[fading harbor]

[meager bison]

just noticed, caltech has a turtle club too

[fading harbor]

I remember hunting for clubs to mention in my essay

[fading harbor]

Yep

[pseudo kelp]

Pretty fitting

[fading harbor]

A cheese club too

iirc

[meager bison]

thats relatively common ig

[spice sigil]

When I toured, they said that the clubs at Caltech are rather inactive.

[woven stirrup]

what time caltech drop

[fading harbor]

There's even a prank club apparently

[meager bison]

take a guess

[warm lava]

that’s crazy for them to admit that lmao

[woven stirrup]

3:14

[fading harbor]

!caltech

[haughty fox]

Caltech Decision Date

Caltech decisions come out <t:1678552260> in your local time
2 hours, 16 minutes and 49 seconds until the decision date

[woven stirrup]

y 1131

what significance is that number

[meager bison]

some website claimed its even funded if you approach them with a really cool prank

[fading harbor]

8.31 gas constant

[amber flame]

Am back 🤓

[fading harbor]

WOW!

[spice sigil]

Well, the people leading the tours are students.

[fading harbor]

👋

[amber flame]

Pretty soon, huh

[warm lava]

yeah just kinda sad ig :,>

[meager bison]

indonesia?

[amber flame]

You guys ready? 😊

[woven stirrup]

yeah i definetely wouldn’t have gotten into caltech 😭

[fading harbor]

For the rejection, YES!!!

[woven stirrup]

Pv=nRt email

yeah 8:31 makes sense

[fading harbor]

Ya

[amber flame]

Well, you’re going there to learn so dw

[amber flame]

Bet you will get accepted

[meager bison]

sobs in intl fin aid

[lament dew]

pigeon did you apply to caltech?

[warm lava]

nooope just watchin 🍿

[meager bison]

didnt you have a meeting rn

[lament dew]

ah i seee

[lament dew]

im in it

[meager bison]

oh cool

[warm lava]

i don’t like how crazy beans they r about sat scores

[lament dew]

they’re test blind

[meager bison]

.....they're test blind

[warm lava]

WAIT FR

[lament dew]

yes

LOLL

[amber flame]

Oh, same

[vernal snow]

Caltech server logo is different for us

[warm lava]

i always remembered them as being super strict w scores or somethin

[lament dew]

they used to be

but they went test blind! lol

from 1580+ required to no test!

😭

[warm lava]

that’s rlly surprising

[lament dew]

they’re tryna be quirky i think

they said too many top people have perfect scores

it doesn’t differentiate them

so they don’t care

lol

[full moat]

Missed the catfest

[lament dew]

cat-tech fest

[warm lava]

mm thats interesting

[upper crater]

My cramps r being little bitches

It means i got accepted

Biological astrology

👍

[warm lava]

idk how i didn’t know 💀 i think i never rlly looked into it and most my knowledge on caltech is from college videos in 2020

[charred hill]

!caltech

[haughty fox]

Caltech Decision Date

Caltech decisions come out <t:1678552260> in your local time
2 hours, 8 minutes and 25 seconds until the decision date

[upper crater]

Oh the news i heard abt caltech

Was they want to raise their ar

Cuz a low ar isnt their mo

They dont want to be considered elite and unachievable

Idk why they went test blind for that tho

💀

I just know they went rea bc of that

[woven stirrup]

did caltech not have early?

[upper crater]

They want ti find students who fit the caltech profile who slso rlly want to attend

So they switched to rea

[meager bison]

caltech has been recently trying to climb up the ranking

[upper crater]

Which is more restrictive than ed

As to the other schools u can apply to

Or maybe they j dont want u applying to both mit and caltech early LOL

[meager bison]

recruiting athletes, going test blind to boost no. of apps, rea for boosting yield ...

[full moat]

The real reason has something to do w another school that does EA 🤣

[lament dew]

caltech doesn’t recruit do they?

they’re like d3

[warm lava]

and their yield is 53% ⁉️ jeez

[lament dew]

yeah usually there’s overlap between caltech and mit

[meager bison]

idk some ytber mentioned it somewhere in a video ig, not sure

[versed field]

intriguing

[lament dew]

i think going test blind helps people who are smart and didn’t have the ability to take the act/sat over and over

[versed field]

I thought it would be 65-75%

[lament dew]

yeah their yield is super low, it’s not for everyone

[meager bison]

only harvard and mit are up at 75 ig

[lament dew]

i know people who have chosen columbia over caltech

UT austin over caltech

people just don’t vibe with caltech sometimes

[versed field]

Could be the social life aspect (due to smaller student bodies) or aid maybe?

[pseudo kelp]

UT Austin 😲

[lament dew]

yes

looking at spreadsheets last year

[meager bison]

2 hours

[warm lava]

idk

[lament dew]

4 of the 7 people who applied from the campus i attended got in, and of those 4, 3 chose another school over it

[warm lava]

bc if you can’t do well on one sat test then won’t caltech be super super hard

bc they’re super rigorous

[lament dew]

i don’t like that mindset

i think what they’re trying to do is make you prepare yourself over 4y

with rigorous math and science

that’s more preparatory than a sat

[meager bison]

not necessarily
idt messing up "," placements on the sat writing translate to doing/not doing well in phy 201

[lament dew]

you can make the argument that “sat is only alg 2, if you can’t do alg 2 you’re dead” but there are people who have a decent but not entirely competitive sat taking analysis and ochem with straight As

and that’s going to help you out more for caltech

[haughty fox]

Caltech Decision Date

Caltech decisions come out <t:1678552260> in your local time
2 hours until the decision date

[fading harbor]

🤞

[warm lava]

true i can understand not considering sat reading as much but still the math lol

[fading harbor]

💀

[warm lava]

yes but gpa is not standardized at all

[meager bison]

cant see sat math helping out with undergrad calculus

[fading harbor]

SAT math is a JOKE

[lament dew]

idk they be accepting people who don’t wanna attend (they could raise their yield and accept me!)

[warm lava]

ok sry daily test optional debate moment

[lament dew]

rigor generally is

caltech isn’t test optional

they’re fully blind

[warm lava]

no, it’s definitely not 💀

[fading harbor]

+1

[lament dew]

idk, but for IB curriculum it’s standardized pretty much

[warm lava]

right

[full moat]

Why is the checklist still there

[lament dew]

no clue

[fading harbor]

Caltech want's to be "different"

[lament dew]

it’ll probably disappear an hour or two before

[warm lava]

ah right i forgot you were ib

[meager bison]

beaver breakroom is a mess, ignore it for 01:56 hrs

[lament dew]

yeahh

i get what you mean though

[pseudo kelp]

It’s already two hours before…

[full moat]

🤕

[lament dew]

im taking a bunch of rigorous dual enrollments but i know my school offers official dual enrollments which are basically jokes

but they sound like jokes tho

calculus 3 sounds more rigorous than “quantitative math” 💀

[warm lava]

what about qualitative math though ⁉️

[lament dew]

“describe the apple”

[meager bison]

with a 3rd order differential equation

[lament dew]

😳

lol

[spice sigil]

My school has the same class. It’s basically applied (HS)algebra.

[lament dew]

hopefully not

[lament dew]

yep

💀

my friend is in it

[meager bison]

my school has calc, vector, algebra, trigo, all labelled under "math"

how to be vague 101

[lament dew]

one of her questions was “find the slope of the line”

💀💀💀

she was taking her test during lunch

[upper crater]

My school only has like 12 math courses

[meager bison]

my school has 4 for 4 years

[lament dew]

we have alg 1, alg 2, geometry, precalc, and calc. and then IB analysis and approaches SL, and the college offers calc 1, calc 2, calc 3, and discrete math

[upper crater]

Youre required to have alg 2 and trig by graduation

[lament dew]

yep

alg 2 is a grad req

[gritty harness]

t - 2 hours

[upper crater]

We have rlly straightforward terms like wtf r ib and sl

😭

[lament dew]

international baccalaureate

[gritty harness]

sl = standard level

hl = higher level

[lament dew]

analysis and approaches is weird, it has some ACTUAL analysis in it but it’s kinda minimal

it’s mainly calc and stats/prob

[upper crater]

I called mit silly in one of my caltech essays. Guaranteed acceptance???

[lament dew]

silly

[fading harbor]

In India there is just Maths which includes everything until and beyond Calc BC

[gritty harness]

[fading harbor]

💯

[upper crater]

I also called caltech silly in an mit essay but they dont need to know that.

[lament dew]

idk i hope they find me interesting even if i’m rejected

[pastel swallow]

watching big bang theory rn, may sheldon cooper bless my soul

[upper crater]

They should count legacy 💀

[gritty harness]

MIT and Caltech admissions office watching this: 🤨🤨🤨

[lament dew]

hope they raised their eyebrows once while reading my app

[upper crater]

Shhh

[lament dew]

💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀

HAHAHAHAH

no

[fading harbor]

You have legacy at Caltech 💀

[meager bison]

howmanyskullsistoomanyskulls.com

[upper crater]

Then again my dad tells me he wouldnt wish caltech upon his worst enemy

So he doesnt want me to go

LMAOO

FOFJFKF

[lament dew]

people gotta stop shotgunning caltech

[pastel swallow]

nah they dont have children

[lament dew]

like PLEASE i put my heart and soul into this app

caltech is my #1

🙁

[upper crater]

Youre right cuz technically my dad adopted me

[verbal pawn]

sorry

[meager bison]

same fr

[verbal pawn]

atm i wouldn’t go if i got in

j wanna flex

[upper crater]

Caltech id love to get in but idk how happy id be two years from now

[verbal pawn]

[lament dew]

tell them to let me in instead

im jk

[pastel swallow]

you withdraw first then ill withdraw

[lament dew]

i’ll get in off my own merit

[gritty harness]

“yeah i ain’t going but accept this dude instead pls”

[lament dew]

as a woman in stem,

[gritty harness]

“i j wanted to flex that i got in, i actually don’t care about u” - dan

[pastel swallow]

does watching young sheldon count as demonstrated interest???

[verbal pawn]

i didn’t get in

(yet) >:)

[lament dew]

🧍‍♀️

[upper crater]

My dad got in via transfer

[pastel swallow]

this motherfucker almost killed me

[verbal pawn]

lmao

[gritty harness]

on instagram reels or youtube shorts? your answer will affect your offer.

[upper crater]

For acing some national chem or math competition

[lament dew]

was he in a 3:2 program?

[verbal pawn]

bro i went to bed at 2

[lament dew]

oh what

[verbal pawn]

and woke up 9:30

[lament dew]

💀

[upper crater]

No

[verbal pawn]

later than 2

[lament dew]

BRO WON PUTNAM

[verbal pawn]

why’s my weekend sleep so shit

[upper crater]

Yea

[meager bison]

idk about rn about 10 yrs from now when co 2027 become school AOs, they def gonna lurk on a2c/future equivalent of it to judge applicants

[upper crater]

I think that was it

[pastel swallow]

nahhh im watchiing on netflix

[upper crater]

He got like first or second

And caltech gave him scholarship

[gritty harness]

alright good, ur accepted

[upper crater]

To atgend

[lament dew]

i don’t think it was putnam

[verbal pawn]

that’s gg

[upper crater]

He fr went from suny albany to caltech

[lament dew]

but if it was

that’s crazy

ok yeah it def could’ve been putnam

[pastel swallow]

caltech is the only way international students can work at NASA

[lament dew]

oh wait fr

that’s crazy

[pastel swallow]

man that JPL Internship is sexy

open to internationals too

[lament dew]

did you apply for astrophys?

[pastel swallow]

nah cs + dynamical systems

[gritty harness]

facts

[lament dew]

ooo

[pastel swallow]

i wanna work on planetary robotics

[gritty harness]

meanwhile me who applied for mathematics 👋

[lament dew]

that is SO COOL

i want to do planetary defense/space policy

[pastel swallow]

man imagine working on the next nasa mars rover or lunar rover

as an international student

fucking hell

[meager bison]

i hope people conviniently forgot astrophy exists and now caltech has me admitted for under enrolled major

[gritty harness]

or like something that lands on asteroids and stuff

[lament dew]

so i did astrophysics + planetary sciences with likely a minor in polisci

[gritty harness]

it’s so cool

[pastel swallow]

bro that dynamical systems minor is picasso

[lament dew]

what is it for?

is it literally just dynamics

[pastel swallow]

like im a robotics nerd that shit is sweet

its robotics

[lament dew]

ohhh i see

that’s super interesting

[meager bison]

caltech needs to have a why caltech supp

[chilly cape]

!caltech

[haughty fox]

Caltech Decision Date

Caltech decisions come out <t:1678552260> in your local time
1 hour, 41 minutes and 42 seconds until the decision date

[chilly cape]

true

[lament dew]

they do?

did you not incorporate caltech in your responses

[meager bison]

not rn, i mean you could sneak it into other supps but not why us excplicitly

[lament dew]

ah yeah

makes sense

[verbal pawn]

i didn’t mention caltech once

in all my essays

[lament dew]

damn

i mentioned it a few times

[meager bison]

i did that for jhu

[fading harbor]

Same lol

[verbal pawn]

i never mentioned colleges unless i had to

lazy 💯

[fading harbor]

It was just STEM and CS

[pastel swallow]

man i sent my head boy farewell speech as a caltech supplement

i sent a bloody poetry supplement

[meager bison]

💀

[pastel swallow]

and 40 pages of research

plus a wholeass research paper

[fading harbor]

🫡

[lament dew]

i talked abt chess puzzles, crosswords, orbital dynamics, STEM policy, trying to develop different approaches to difficult physics problems and leverage my background, how my culture and environment plays into my thinking and problem solving

[pastel swallow]

any people here know about the rise challenge?

[lament dew]

went in depth abt collaboration and pushing through struggling with being thrown into a deep pool of concepts im unfamiliar with and experimenting with art, music, and astrophys

so hopefully

[verbal pawn]

do you have stem awards

calypso

[lament dew]

Yes

[verbal pawn]

like olympiads i mean

[meager bison]

i rambled about my early interest in astrophy, how start up helped me to collaborate, some stem stuff, one very unhinged stem project, being unique, comedy, cooking

[verbal pawn]

or isef

[lament dew]

I’m a low income rural title I hs student but I have 300h of astrophysics research

[verbal pawn]

that’s good

[pastel swallow]

bruh i went with the isef arc cause olympiad qualifiers in india are fucking insane

[lament dew]

and an internship with state gov

• some regional math stuff

[pastel swallow]

6 people selected from 40,000 exam writing peeps

[lament dew]

so idk

i had a research rec kinda

[verbal pawn]

i just want my balancing bird to come

[lament dew]

BALANCING BIRD

[verbal pawn]

so i can procrastinate

[lament dew]

that’s so cool

[fading harbor]

Not that hard. Stage-1 is pretty basic ig

[verbal pawn]

by balancing bird.

[lament dew]

yeah there’s no isef qualifying fairs or amc in my entire state 💀💀💀💀

it’s literally awful

[verbal pawn]

my physics teacher showed everyone the balancing bird and i was like u know what i want one

[verbal pawn]

rip

there’s only online competitions then

USACO/USAMTS

[meager bison]

for no reason i have an overwhelming urge to share my identity prompt essay for external validation

[verbal pawn]

lmfao

[amber flame]

You could wait an hour

For real validation

[meager bison]

too impatient

[verbal pawn]

a seemingly apparent method

[lament dew]

“Gotta go, have an unassembled microwave to tend to”

💀

[meager bison]

my style's weird yes

[amber flame]

I'm at my senior pics rn lmfao

Trying to wait will kill me

[fading harbor]

How can people who haven't got in yet assess your essay?

[pastel swallow]

bro really embodied the nerd arc huh

[eager elk]

!caltech

[haughty fox]

Caltech Decision Date

Caltech decisions come out <t:1678552260> in your local time
1 hour, 34 minutes and 50 seconds until the decision date

[lament dew]

i will review essays for $100/essay in 1h 35 min

[pastel swallow]

thank you discord bot for giving me crippling anxiety

[verbal pawn]

why’d i have to wake up so early

and be sleep deprived

[meager bison]

random friends reference that fits

[fading harbor]

🙃

[meager bison]

you guys sleep?!

[lament dew]

i have become kind of numb to rejection

but caltech is gonna hurt

[gritty harness]

why do they not do it in relative format on discord, would prevent ppl from spamming the command lol <t:1678552200:R>

[pastel swallow]

man whats with this application banner bs

[lament dew]

don’t

[verbal pawn]

only decision that will hurt from here on out

[lament dew]

it means nothing

[meager bison]

just dont

[verbal pawn]

1. mit
2. my last decision

lmao

[pastel swallow]

i have 20 RD decisions left lmao

[verbal pawn]

i got 11

[lament dew]

i’ll have 9 after caltech

[pastel swallow]

my EA round went mid honestly

[fading harbor]

I have ~12 US rejections after this

[buoyant grail]

after caltech i'll have 2 more

[meager bison]

i'll have 7 after caltech + indian colleges (tbf they're a lil different)

[fading harbor]

Indian College decisions!!?!?!

[meager bison]

you get the gist

[pastel swallow]

how did your EA decisions go people

[fading harbor]

Kinda yeah

[buoyant grail]

i got in umiami ea

[fading harbor]

So, 13US+1Canada+4UK+2Singapore=20 more left

💀

[pastel swallow]

lmaooo

in the same boat my man

[meager bison]

its a rd thread, take a guess

[pastel swallow]

lmaoooo

[verbal pawn]

xd

[amber flame]

Uchicago decided to waitlist me after deferring, and mit deferred me so waiting for decision on tuesday

Other than that EA was nice

[finite oriole]

!caltech

[haughty fox]

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