California Institute of Technology (Caltech) (2023-2024)

[low holly]

or do ur ECs stand out

etc

Cuz u might downplay ur actual self when ur actually great in other parts of the app

[limber warren]

Average for CalTech.

[low holly]

and bro is saying he’s not getting in

Ur app is so good

[limber warren]

I got rejected by literally GeorgiaTech instate

[low holly]

u shouldn’t downplay ur self 😭

[limber warren]

Actually I did somewhat downplay GeorgiaTech app

[low holly]

That’s just one decision

[limber warren]

My CalTech app is stronger but still

[low holly]

and u also can’t predict these too Unis

[low holly]

no chill bro hopefully it’ll work out

don’t worry

im telling u don’t lose hope

As someone who felt it was genuinely over

[eager mauve]

No chance mes

[low holly]

hi

Not a chance me

[lone apex]

@eager mauve Hey would you mind giving an indication on my likelihood of getting accepted?

[low holly]

it was just giving him a bit more self awareness

[eager mauve]

Dropping stats and ECs while pondering acceptance chances is a chance me

[lone apex]

It's a joke don't ban me

[low holly]

We didn’t talk about chances

[eager mauve]

.

[limber warren]

Wait does CalTech hate video game essays?

My essay was Minecraft

[lone apex]

I don't think it matters

[marble tartan]

😂 enjoy columbia bro

[lone apex]

lolll

[low holly]

That’s a joke it’s exaggeration u can’t even be chanced for these but sure then

[limber warren]

Bro I would be happy with Columbia even with 500 rejections

[lone apex]

Columbia is sick indeed

[warm perch]

did u get a likely?

[lone apex]

yuh

[warm perch]

too good

[low holly]

Congrats

[marble tartan]

what rank would u say it is on ur list?

[low holly]

anyway man don’t feel bad at all it’ll work out trust me

[lone apex]

I compiled and ranked my list in August and Columbia was 4th then

Considering a likely I say it edges out Hahvard for 3rd

[marble tartan]

so caltech acceptance wouldnt really matter then haha

[lone apex]

No lol

[low holly]

nice

[lone apex]

I would rather stay on the east coast if it came down to Caltech v Columbia

[grave ruin]

How screwed am I for getting 90 average for caltech

!!

[limber warren]

Bro

[lone apex]

they only look at letter grades

[limber warren]

.-.

[low holly]

bro this guy legit got yelled at a second ago by mods we ain’t taking anymore chances 💀

Also ur question is stupid

[lone apex]

Lmao that's kinda wild

[grave ruin]

Bro I don’t even care now if I get rejected 😭

[marble tartan]

90/100 gpa??

[low holly]

In what way?

[grave ruin]

Diff guy I was just messin y’all

[lone apex]

Just wild

[marble tartan]

honestly either way grades dont rlly matter

[low holly]

😂

[low holly]

Wild => controversial u gotta bump up the vocab for Columbia 😭

[grave ruin]

Does British Columbia applicants have extra boost of getting in Columbia?

[low holly]

bro I saw an mf asking if 98.9 will make a difference compared to 99.0%

[marble tartan]

precisely unfathomable 😂

[grave ruin]

What was your gpa when u got in?

[low holly]

Guys wake up new geolocation astrology just dropped

[marble tartan]

lol people r insane

[low holly]

@mods u gotta add this to the list

[low holly]

legit

bro @limber warren did we even chance u 💀 I was just tryna make u feel better 😭 wth

[limber warren]

Uhh

[marble tartan]

omg he has a 98.9 we cant admit him because the cutoff was 99 😭

like nobody is thinking like that

[low holly]

that one comment was just an exaggeration and not even saying that you’d get in just a statement 💀 u can not guarantee acceptance to these

[limber warren]

I don’t know what y’all are talking about

[low holly]

Ain’t no way

[low holly]

The previous situation

anyway we chill now

[low holly]

In some countries that’s the case

@eager mauve Before u say anything I get what u meant and I won’t do it again

[marble tartan]

yup everywhere but murica 🦅

[low holly]

and zeee yonaited kindome ☕ 🇬🇧

[grave ruin]

Who actually solved the math problem they sent through the email?

[low holly]

Me 💀

[grave ruin]

Bro💀

[low holly]

what

😭

[grave ruin]

Who can’t tell that you’re a caltech student

Wait

[low holly]

😭 my friends send me similar stuff 💀 from insta

and ask me to solve them

[grave ruin]

Ure a sophomore 💀 u just applying early?

[low holly]

Yeah and I’m applying early yea

[grave ruin]

Bro a prodigy fr

[low holly]

😭

I hope

[grave ruin]

It’s you where Sheldon reference came from 😂

[low holly]

forgot to seize the opportunity to mention young Sheldon in my Caltech essays

😭

[grave ruin]

😂😂

[low holly]

😭

I honestly tried out two gcses

then was like why not do as physics and maths

then thought once more

And added chem

😭

And then did two extra ones at the end of last year along with a few more gcses

💀

[grave ruin]

Bro has 34 hours in one day 💀

[low holly]

💀

😭

btw I did the maths As curriculum in 3 days 💀

[grave ruin]

Like how u manage all that and still have time for a2c

[low holly]

I basically use time efficiently idk how to explain

😭

I have a way to just go through a whole chapter

And finish it all

And do past papers

and I’m done with it

I don’t take time to do fancy notes and stuff

Then review them

Every once in a while

Caltech better accept 💀 or

/jk

[grave ruin]

That’s like me a day before finals… except I don’t solve past papers and just contemplate that I’m applying engineering💀

[low holly]

😭 theory can only take u so far

Imma have to sleep

cuz tomorrow is an eventful day I must say

see you

[grave ruin]

Bro gonna way up 5 min before the decision 💀

Aight cya

[low holly]

💀 😭

nah I gotta flight

And some other stuff

so I won’t even be able to open it tmmrw

Or atleast late

[grave ruin]

Bro bout to check his decisions in flight and make the highest jump 😂

[low holly]

😂 that can have two meanings

The duality of man

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[dawn ridge]

I wonder who will get in from here

[median blade]

Me too

[dawn ridge]

I think some of y'all will

Cuz I know at least 2 of you

Who have a very cool profile

[silk quiver]

🙏🏻

[dawn ridge]

I'm excited to see how this goes

[silk quiver]

we should all donate to CalTech so that they can increase their class size and then force them to admit us

[median blade]

@dawn ridge do u live in a single or double

[median blade]

TRUE

If only they could have one spare dorm room

☹️

That’s still official housing right

Wait how does housing work then are you basically in a giant house with a bunch of people

Alr

Well I heard there was this one dorm at UMich

That had like no windows

[dawn ridge]

@eager mauve

Lurker

[median blade]

So people got so messed up

By not wakaing up the sun

[eager mauve]

What gave me away ?

[median blade]

Lmao

[median blade]

Typing

[dawn ridge]

The furious typing frfr

[median blade]

💀

[eager mauve]

Must be a ghost bruh

[dawn ridge]

Anyways

[median blade]

Was ur cat on ur keyboard 🤔

[dawn ridge]

Btw

I am proud of y'all

I have tried to help as many of you as possible, and no matter the result, I think you all deserve a spot

I have not seen a single one of you who wasn't hardworking and passionate about their work. and that alone will get you into so many great places

[dawn sparrow]

wait I just realized I never got an email to make the application portal should I be worried

[median blade]

did you make it tho?

[dawn ridge]

Yeah you should be terrified lmfao

[median blade]

or could u even make it

[limber warren]

^

Make it asap

Please

[dawn sparrow]

I thought the email gives you the info needed to make one?

[median blade]

check spam folder

[dawn ridge]

Yeah it does - did you check your junk or smth?

[median blade]

have you ever unsubscribed from the caltech emails?

[dawn ridge]

Wait did you even submit your portfolio?

Last year it was thru the portal

[dawn sparrow]

yeah it says downloaded by college in commonapp

[dawn ridge]

Idk bout this year, maybe they included it in the commonapp this time (which is so much better if you ask me)

[dawn sparrow]

hmm but it says "Soon, you will receive an email with information on accessing your applicant portal" under next steps

[dawn ridge]

What did u do for portfolio @median blade

I probably asked you but I forgot

[median blade]

Like a research supplemental?

I didn’t have one

[dawn ridge]

Calm

[mellow tulip]

Is it bad if you didn’t submit a portfolio

[median blade]

No, and don’t worry about this decisions are literally tomorrow

[dawn ridge]

It honestly depends

On the applicant

[dawn sparrow]

I didn't submit any extra supplementals

[dawn ridge]

Like I will be so real

Sometimes a portfolio is good, sometimes it isn't

I would submit a portfolio if you were really good at something you couldn't mention in your app

Or maybe even an extension of something you talked about in your app

[silk quiver]

I submitted a creative portfolio, some photography. I had research already published on EulerCircle but it wasn’t a journal so I didnt add that (plus it was mostly expository work)

[median blade]

oh thats cool what’d you write it on

[dawn ridge]

One of my friends did that for his portfolio

I love photography

I wish I was good at it

[silk quiver]

Euler’s E228 Sums of Two Squares and extended it into Fermat’s work

[dawn ridge]

I feel like photography is one of those natural skills

[median blade]

number theory 🗿

[silk quiver]

Ah, somewhat yeah but one could definitely improve how they approach photos if they took saw a short 10 minute video on just tinkering with the camera app

[dawn ridge]

I suppose you looked at diophantine equations?

[silk quiver]

Like you could do a lot of magic with just the basic tools in the camera

[silk quiver]

Indeed yeah

EulerCircle was a very cool program

I will be attending again this summer but for Cryptography

The class I had taken was Mathematics of Euler

[median blade]

yo i have a question i saw this one thing about “local to global principle” where if u solutions mod p you might have a solution in the integers, is this related to “cohomology” at all in NT

[dawn ridge]

You know what would have been sick (that I hope you did)

[median blade]

For the research one? i was thinking of doing it too. do u know if the finaid is good cuz its so expensive lol

[dawn ridge]

If you talked about the unresolved conjectures related to diophantine equations from Euler's E228

[dawn ridge]

Like the Ramanujan-Nagell

I might lowkey do that for fun

[silk quiver]

I think I did? I don’t remember since I was coauthor so I was working on Fermat’s work mostly, but I do remember going through Euler’s original paper and some other papers discussing this

Cryptography is a proper class where he teaches and you solve PSETs with your Stanford TA

[median blade]

is that what ur doing or is there smth else

oh

cool

hows the finaid

[dawn ridge]

You should look into Catalan & Preda Mihailescu

[silk quiver]

You could ask him for a discount

[dawn ridge]

@silk quiver i deleted ur message btw

bc of doxxing potential

[silk quiver]

Oh yeah, thank you

[silk quiver]

EulerCircle is pretty flexible with costs

[median blade]

alr cool

[silk quiver]

Math of Euler was 1K USD but I emailed him to request a discount and he gave me a 500 usd scholarship

[dawn ridge]

Man I wanna feel the thrill of opening an application decision again

I miss it so much

[median blade]

why would you wanna do that to yourself

i guess this is just what cracked people do

💀

[dawn ridge]

It was so fun cuz I was already guranateed somewhere

So the rest was all fun

[median blade]

Oxford? lmao

[dawn ridge]

Nah I got rejected from Cambridge actually LMFAO

[median blade]

oh rip

[dawn ridge]

The sister school

But yeah I had columbia likely

[median blade]

do you think the admission system is better in the UK or nah

[dawn ridge]

I think it's more grade based

Which is a little fucked cuz I wasn't, well, in high school at the time I applied

[median blade]

is IB given a lot of weight

[dawn ridge]

So much weight

[median blade]

comapred to AP or smth

o

[dawn ridge]

& I had a 43 I mean I was fine IB wise

It was just the fact I wasn't 'in school' I think

[silk quiver]

I applied to UK (only because my school covered the app cost), it was a very simple process and arguably a lot less stressful than US

[median blade]

i c

[dawn ridge]

Fully agree

I mean I wanted to study in the US so bad

Like the UK was just not gonna cut it for me

[silk quiver]

I mean I wrote my PS in a day, and I have gotten 3 offers from Warwick, Edinburgh, Manchester for Math

Of course everyone’s mileage may vary but there are a lot less variables to focus on

[dawn ridge]

After I was honorably discharged from the BAF, I just felt like shit staying in my home country

I felt like an imposter, and I wanted to discover smth new

[median blade]

UK also feels more merit based, i have 3 friends from a math summer camp i went to that all got into oxford

[silk quiver]

It is but sometimes, 4 A* is also not enough to get an offer

[dawn ridge]

Yup

[shell oar]

lol i know some multi-olympiad medallist (including IMO silver+ and another major olympiad) who got rejected from Oxford (though got into Imperial)

[silk quiver]

Like I have been seeing on r/6thform

[dawn ridge]

Yeah that happens

[silk quiver]

A lot of people for Econ and CS with 4 A* are getting rejected

[median blade]

wow thats kinda goofy

[dawn ridge]

That's cuz they don't have math

LMFAO

A levels is so fucked

That's why i took IB

[silk quiver]

I too am in the IB

Stressful

[dawn ridge]

Oh nice

I mean I was a free candidate

So it was very not stressful for me

I did things in my own time

[silk quiver]

Ah

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[dawn ridge]

What is ur pg?

[silk quiver]

44

[median blade]

bruh sub 21 hours AAHHHH

[dawn ridge]

Yeah ur chilling as long as ur 6 isn't in an HL

I had a 43 with a 5 in french

LMFAO

[silk quiver]

English SL

[dawn ridge]

That too was an opp

I cannot lie

[silk quiver]

took me a full year to get a 7 in English

[shell oar]

do you know how many intls does caltech accept

(and how many of them on finaid)

[silk quiver]

shit was so hard

[shell oar]

there's like 11 intls with finaid each year at caletch

[dawn ridge]

So

[shell oar]

https://iro.caltech.edu/documents/25199/Caltech_Common_Data_Set_2022-23_Published_June_2023_v1.pdf

[silk quiver]

I generally think of 10% of total admitted as intl

[shell oar]

yea but intl finaid is less as caltech is need-aware

[dawn ridge]

Nah

We're like 20?

I think like 7 of us have a full ride iirc

[silk quiver]

QB?

[shell oar]

ah interesting

[night agate]

Isnt that only for US citizens

[dawn ridge]

Nah not as internationals. I know a couple of qb kids tho

[silk quiver]

Oh right

[shell oar]

this says 42 total

[dawn ridge]

My room mate has a full ride too

He's intl

& I know another one too

[silk quiver]

I am in this very weird position where I am a U.S. citizen but attend HS outside of it

[dawn ridge]

You're chilling

[night agate]

you will be considered US

[shell oar]

i'm curious

in this group, what's the typical profile

[night agate]

and pretty sure they will be need blind

[silk quiver]

I sure hope so because so far I have gotten quite unlucky 💀

[shell oar]

i know at mit it's mostly top oly kids in different countries

(how they select within this group i have no idea)

[dawn ridge]

Wdym

[night agate]

look you will be compared to other people around the country you live

but for fin aid

for sure US

[shell oar]

like their EC's, etc.

[silk quiver]

Yeh I am aware and it doesn’t help that my country is India where every applicant is cracked 💀

[silk quiver]

To be fair though

A lot of olympiad kids from intl also get rejected

[median blade]

bro whats the acceptance rate for deferred people from a few years ago it says 10-15% is it lower now (if anyone knows)

[shell oar]

i think if one is sufficiently cracked at oly mit is near-guarantee

[silk quiver]

An IOI/IMO/IPhO gold as an international is not a guarantee, it does put things in your favor but is not a guarantee whatsoever

[shell oar]

but this "sufficiently cracked" is extremely high

[dawn ridge]

Very very unique profiles

[dawn ridge]

Especially on the international end

[silk quiver]

MIT doesn’t really have a shortage of olympiad students at an international level, so plenty grt rejected

[shell oar]

and do decently (like domestic T10-20 level) on the other aspects of the app

[dawn ridge]

Although on the US end too tbh

[median blade]

yeah, i heard somewhere that only 1 person on the chinese IMO team gets in (this might just be bogus)

cuz its not like they can just admit all the IMO, IPhO, MOP, ICHO, IOI, etc. teams

[dawn ridge]

This is bs

[shell oar]

there's clearly per-country quotas lol

i guess for some context

[dawn ridge]

Oh, sure

But in terms of who they accept based on medals

[shell oar]

i did go to mit undergrad, i'm quite old rn (23) but i have a sibling applying this year

[dawn ridge]

Totally not how it works

[silk quiver]

I can only say from the Indian side but the ones that do get in are generally JEE students that have gotten a Top 50 rank all India.

[dawn ridge]

Yeah I mean they are insanely cracked

[shell oar]

it's not a guarantee but still way more predictable

[dawn ridge]

I personally had no awards like that tho

[shell oar]

like this is a bit of a weird claim but

[dawn ridge]

Like I feel like it depends on the person

It also depends on opportunity

[shell oar]

if every major olympiad (imo, ioi, ipho, icho, ibo) gold/silver medallist applying in a particular year made a very detailed chanceme-style post, I can probably select a subset of size ~40 and be reasonably sure that ~20 of them will get in

[silk quiver]

Yeh for sure, definitely Olympiads is a way for someone to at least be in consideration as intl and likely to be part of their committee review

[shell oar]

I don't think this is true for any other college

[silk quiver]

I think CalTech also asks for competitive experience but I am not sure about its weightage

[shell oar]

though like it's gotten way harder than before

i applied to college sometime in the mid 2010s

[dawn ridge]

I can tell you

Almost no weightage kek

[silk quiver]

Damn, my AIME and all other math Olympiads are in vain 💀

[median blade]

is that what it said in ur admission file?

[low holly]

hi

[shell oar]

got mit/princeton/stanford/caltech as a two-olympiad contestant (gold, bronze/silver) and few other EC's, and equiv of low 1500 sat's (back when sat's mattered more)

[silk quiver]

Cracked

[median blade]

do u go to caltech grad school

[low holly]

It started raining like god was angered 😭

[shell oar]

no lol but i'm in grad school

not saying where tho

[dawn ridge]

Fuck bro that is insane

I did not get that

☠️

[low holly]

so I couldn’t sleep

[shell oar]

might be possible to doxx me if i tell my grad school also

[dawn ridge]

Nah definitely not

What I mean is

If you don't have any awards related to olympiads/stem

They don't like, care as much

[silk quiver]

Makes sense

[dawn ridge]

For example, my awards came through the army

[median blade]

is the main thing just loving STEM and having rigorous classes

[silk quiver]

A lot of applicants have that tbf

[dawn ridge]

Nah

[shell oar]

when you say unique profiles

[silk quiver]

I think most applicants to CalTech are self selected

[shell oar]

you mean they take a lot of nontraditional candidates?

[dawn ridge]

Yes

[shell oar]

rather than typical strong hs students with strong EC's

[low holly]

Is it joever for bro ?

[dawn ridge]

Correct

[shell oar]

ah interesting, this is definitely not the case at MIT at all

[low holly]

But technically A levels is highschool graduation idk

wtv then lol

[silk quiver]

F

Seems like it

[low holly]

maybe American in a sense but yeah

[dawn ridge]

Lowkey I wouldn't overthink it lads

What is done is done

[low holly]

like the rule might be better suited to Americans but idk

[silk quiver]

Should have applied Carnegie because they do have a special program for early admissions

[low holly]

Lol

[dawn ridge]

Ur decision is already processed

[low holly]

but now beaver is sad

[shell oar]

might be caltech's thing which makes sense as well as an approach

[low holly]

😂

[shell oar]

in some way there's definitely room to have these less traditional background people together

[dawn ridge]

I love it

I mean I love their admissions process

The faculty being involved too

[shell oar]

ah in what way?

[dawn ridge]

Basically caltech admissions boils down to trained admissions officers and faculty working together to make a decision on a student

I think it's unique

I also think it's very cool

[median blade]

its only cool if they admit me 😄

[silk quiver]

I quite liked my essay to the CalTech values question

I had taken one of the TOK Prescribed Titles to answer it

[dawn ridge]

That's smart lowkey

Anyways guys

I gtg

[median blade]

cya

[dawn ridge]

Take care, and good luck!

I will definitely swing by for decisions

[silk quiver]

Are we too quick to assume that the most recent evidence is inevitably the strongest?

For preconceived notions

[dawn ridge]

& if you get in you better commit 😡

[median blade]

ur in 😄 😄 😄

[silk quiver]

Probably loading decisions

[median blade]

(no portal astrology)

[stark wharf]

wait you dont have it either

dam its close guys im worried

[stark wharf]

oh i will instacommit if i get in

ngl caltech looking better than mit 👀

[median blade]

calteceh is so spicy

Caltech

Calcutta technical institute amirite

[dawn ridge]

Sup mate

No portal astrology

[stark wharf]

oh it wasnt meant to be portal astrology mb

srry

[dawn ridge]

You're good

[peak fiber]

yeah, if yall got it dm me 👍

[limber warren]

Yep rejected UCDAVIS

[peak fiber]

damn

[limber warren]

Looks like CalTech is a big no no

[peak fiber]

its fine you got caltech

[median blade]

dm what

the portal stuff?

lmao

[peak fiber]

yeah

its not allowed in the server

who says it cant be allowed in dms

[median blade]

lmao

[peak fiber]

i just wanna know tbh

[median blade]

we shall congregate elsewhere my people

[peak fiber]

fr

it was right for purdue, gt, ut austin, so could be right for caltech

[median blade]

dude we have almost sub 20 hours

this is terrifying ugh

[lone apex]

!caltech

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[peak fiber]

so sadness

[median blade]

AAAHHHHH

[mellow tulip]

!caltech

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[hearty saddle]

dont look down man

[atomic stirrup]

yo how we feeling

[median blade]

nervous

[dry wraith]

19ish hours left.

[low holly]

@dawn ridge nah I think we misinterpreted the cds

Here’s the one for davis

And I got into Davis

so I hope Caltech is the same

[limber warren]

..

A rejection from Davis is correlational to a rejection for CalTech

[median blade]

are you in state

if not you shouldnt worry too much (and if u r still dont worry), its very hard to get into UC’s from out of state

i know of people that got rejected/waiutlisted from berkeley & UCLA and got into princeton

[stark wharf]

i mean

you are graduating this year

[low holly]

so technically yeah

[stark wharf]

the cds says "before graduation"

yeah

so ur chilling

[low holly]

That’s what I said earlier yeah

Lol hopefully

[stark wharf]

i'll see u in pasadena 🤩

[low holly]

Caltech better not end my streak

[low holly]

Hopefully 😭

Caltech acceptances feel so rare

and finding Caltech students is even rarer

[warm perch]

wait r u a sophmore??

[vale swallow]

!caltech

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[wild needle]

!caltech

[vagrant cape]

Caltech RD Date

Caltech RD decisions come out <t:1710012120:F> in your local time
18 hours, 5 minutes and 35 seconds until the decision date

ApplyingToCollege

[crimson crown]

is there any way to get past the portfolio screen

oh im so fucked

[wild needle]

replace the ptf at the end with status

[crimson crown]

😭

[wild needle]

it’s doing that to me too and i definitely submitted my rec dw lol

like my status says they received it

[crimson crown]

i added recs directly on the application i thought?

is this different??

[wild needle]

did you submit a maker portfolio or research?

[crimson crown]

no and no

tbf im not expecting to get in

[wild needle]

then you don’t need the research recommender

[crimson crown]

it loops back and forth

if i press continue on the recommender screen

it puts me back on the portfolio

is that normal

[wild needle]

click on the url and replace the part that says ptf with status

[crimson crown]

ohhhh thats what you mean

gotchu

[wild needle]

yes it’s normal the website’s a little broken lol

[bronze peak]

do results come out on beaver breakdown or the caltech portal

[median blade]

Beaver Breakroom is the Caltech portal

[crimson crown]

is applied and computational mathematics hard to get into

or is it easier than pure cs

[bronze peak]

there's like a seperate portal or some crap

[bronze peak]

everythng is hard to get into

[crimson crown]

yeah lol

just comparatively

[bronze peak]

caltech math would prob be difficult to get into

math physics and CS all seem like hotspots for caltech students

[median blade]

Pure math is prob easier

I was talking to Caltech students last year

[bronze peak]

ya caltech is a theory school

[median blade]

And they said that the math dept prolly wants to increase their department size

CS is definitely hard tho

[bronze peak]

i applied mat sci 💀

[median blade]

Yeah idk much abt that

I feel like Physics and CS would be particularly hard

[bronze peak]

there's prob like 10 people applying 💀

[median blade]

LOL

[bronze peak]

i doubt the major you choose really matters

at all

[proud vortex]

applied for both😭😭

[median blade]

I think CS would

Too many CS majors

[wild needle]

i did chem and geosciences lmao

[median blade]

Like almost half the population

But again I don’t know

This is just my gut feeling

[twin python]

my geoscience teacher is a caltech alum lol

[bronze peak]

true

[twin python]

i applied astrophysics

which is probably very competitive

[median blade]

Everything prolly is

It’s just that CS is harder literally everywhere

[bronze peak]

i applied mat sci / applied physics but i talked about stuff like pure math in my essays bc i do some

[median blade]

nice

[forest plaza]

!caltech

[vagrant cape]

Caltech RD Date

Caltech RD decisions come out <t:1710012120:F> in your local time
16 hours, 52 minutes and 37 seconds until the decision date

ApplyingToCollege

[median blade]

UCD and UCI are genuinely random

I have a friend that got into UIUC for CS and didn’t get into UCD or UCI

And he’s like actually cracked

So keep your head up and don’t panic

it isn’t

[atomic stirrup]

yea i also got rejected from davis, irvine, and riverside

not feeling very good rn

[tranquil fable]

my friend is freaking out that their "application status" thing on their portal is gone

is this consistent with everyone else

[median blade]

yes i believe it is

[tranquil fable]

okay thank you!

[low holly]

Yeah I am

[carmine minnow]

Can y'all still upload things?

Kinda wanna send smth last minute for fun

[mild warren]

nah

[carmine minnow]

Not like will it still be considered, I mean technically is it still possible.

[warm perch]

and ur applying for college ⁉️⁉️

[low holly]

Yeah

graduating two years early

With my a levels

Hopefully

[warm perch]

that’s crazy

congrats

[muted pewter]

Like accidentally

So I’m either accept or reject 💀

Love that

Def reject

i can't send images i don't think

[atomic stirrup]

do i smell portal astrology :o

[unique jungle]

source?

[median blade]

stop giving me heart attacks bro

wait is it even possible to be waitlisted after getting deferred

[sage star]

no portal astrology bro

im putting a stop to this

u can discuss this in dms if u want

idrc

i discuss stuff like this in dms sometimes

but like

dont do it here

cuz it causes mass paranoia

if that makes sense

!rule 4

[vagrant cape]

#📜-rules

​Rule 4: Prohibited Content (Admissions Related)

​Don't discuss chance-mes, lying/cheating, portal astrology, or affirmative action. If you don't know what any of these are, you can double check their meaning in #📜-rules. Mods may ask you to change the topic at any time, even if a topic isn't listed here.

[lime juniper]

!caltech

[vagrant cape]

Caltech RD Date

Caltech RD decisions come out <t:1710012120:F> in your local time
14 hours, 1 minute and 39 seconds until the decision date

ApplyingToCollege

[sage star]

ah wahtever

im probably gonna get waitlisted or smth

[median blade]

Caltech themed banner 👀

[low holly]

FONALLLY

☕🦫

[tropic kraken]

Hey hey hey

My fav caltech applicants

[dense pecan]

caltech is tmr isn’t it

im still recovering from UC

i can’t do this

💀💀💀💀

[tranquil fable]

it is

[low holly]

Dopamine frying simulator

and adrenaline frying simulator too

[radiant plaza]

!caltech

[vagrant cape]

Caltech RD Date

Caltech RD decisions come out <t:1710012120:F> in your local time
13 hours, 12 minutes and 2 seconds until the decision date

ApplyingToCollege

[desert nacelle]

!caltech

[vagrant cape]

Caltech RD Date

Caltech RD decisions come out <t:1710012120:F> in your local time
13 hours, 9 minutes and 38 seconds until the decision date

ApplyingToCollege

[celest sluice]

!caltech

[vagrant cape]

Caltech RD Date

Caltech RD decisions come out <t:1710012120:F> in your local time
12 hours, 52 minutes and 16 seconds until the decision date

ApplyingToCollege

[low holly]

nice

https://tenor.com/view/beaver-bober-gif-10382563910831956595

https://tenor.com/view/sedi-sediszn-beaver-back-up-funny-gif-27614670

rare footage of me rn

https://tenor.com/view/joe-beaver-gif-9492291953055774772

[forest plaza]

!caltech

[vagrant cape]

Caltech RD Date

Caltech RD decisions come out <t:1710012120:F> in your local time
12 hours, 13 minutes and 8 seconds until the decision date

ApplyingToCollege

[peak fiber]

!caltech

[vagrant cape]

Caltech RD Date

Caltech RD decisions come out <t:1710012120:F> in your local time
12 hours, 12 minutes and 9 seconds until the decision date

ApplyingToCollege

[jovial prairie]

im abt to have a beaver breakdown 😭

[low holly]

beaver break room get ur facts right @bronze peak

[jovial prairie]

!caltech

[vagrant cape]

Caltech RD Date

Caltech RD decisions come out <t:1710012120:F> in your local time
11 hours, 59 minutes and 59 seconds until the decision date

ApplyingToCollege

[jovial prairie]

bruh

one second off

its over for me im getting rejected

[peak fiber]

lol

so close yet so far away

[lime juniper]

nah nah we don't manifest that energy

We getting in fs

like 100%

[jovial prairie]

true youre right

a2c admit rate is always 100%

[low holly]

If 3 of us get in

It’s a 0.0002 percent chance

Chance

Or smth

😂

[lime juniper]

gotta love the odds 🤡

[low holly]

Omg are u a Londoner

[rustic thistle]

the amount of confidence i have that i'm gonna absolutely rejected is off the charts

[neon nacelle]

Same I am coping but I rlly liked my essays for caltech so still hoping

How?

[lime juniper]

Nah I just like gherkins

[neon nacelle]

I don’t think the portal has changed. It just has like option to submit a maker portfolio. It doesn’t have stuff related to decisions yet

[rustic thistle]

screenshot 👀

[rustic thistle]

🤞

[tropic kraken]

No portal astrology

[low holly]

Ah

[modern swallow]

!caltech

[vagrant cape]

Caltech RD Date

Caltech RD decisions come out <t:1710012120:F> in your local time
11 hours, 12 minutes and 42 seconds until the decision date

ApplyingToCollege

[celest sluice]

!caltech

[vagrant cape]

Caltech RD Date

Caltech RD decisions come out <t:1710012120:F> in your local time
10 hours, 44 minutes and 18 seconds until the decision date

ApplyingToCollege

[desert nacelle]

!caltech

[vagrant cape]

Caltech RD Date

Caltech RD decisions come out <t:1710012120:F> in your local time
10 hours, 38 minutes and 3 seconds until the decision date

ApplyingToCollege

[silk quiver]

people ! calteching mere minutes after the previous ! caltech 💀

[vale swallow]

!caltech

[vagrant cape]

Caltech RD Date

Caltech RD decisions come out <t:1710012120:F> in your local time
10 hours, 24 minutes and 35 seconds until the decision date

ApplyingToCollege

[vale swallow]

yap we have to countdown by the minute

[muted pewter]

Ahhh good luck everybody

Just need to come to terms that I got rejected

[hybrid marsh]

!caltech

[vagrant cape]

Caltech RD Date

Caltech RD decisions come out <t:1710012120:F> in your local time
9 hours, 49 minutes and 27 seconds until the decision date

ApplyingToCollege

[hybrid marsh]

Joever

[craggy totem]

@bleak sphinx

[desert nacelle]

🔥🔥

[low holly]

I’m at the airport dawg

Better have a safe flight 😭

[hollow compass]

!caltech

[vagrant cape]

Caltech RD Date

Caltech RD decisions come out <t:1710012120:F> in your local time
8 hours, 49 minutes and 27 seconds until the decision date

ApplyingToCollege

[desert nacelle]

How is everybody feeling?

I honestly feel nothing like no excitement or stress 💀

[low holly]

That’s how I felt opening UCI

I was gonna withdraw

💀

[desert nacelle]

UCI?

[desert nacelle]

How was the decision? Got accepted?? 🤩

[low holly]

no

rejected

Look in Dms

[proud vortex]

not expecting anything but i still feel so nervous😭

[delicate root]

!caltech

[vagrant cape]

Caltech RD Date

Caltech RD decisions come out <t:1710012120:F> in your local time
8 hours, 9 minutes and 16 seconds until the decision date

ApplyingToCollege

[stoic verge]

!caltech

[vagrant cape]

Caltech RD Date

Caltech RD decisions come out <t:1710012120:F> in your local time
8 hours, 8 minutes and 59 seconds until the decision date

ApplyingToCollege

[stoic verge]

shit man so scared

[forest plaza]

!caltech

[vagrant cape]

Caltech RD Date

Caltech RD decisions come out <t:1710012120:F> in your local time
7 hours, 43 minutes and 6 seconds until the decision date

ApplyingToCollege

[lime juniper]

!caltech

[vagrant cape]

Caltech RD Date

Caltech RD decisions come out <t:1710012120:F> in your local time
7 hours, 14 minutes and 58 seconds until the decision date

ApplyingToCollege

[desert nacelle]

!caltech

[vagrant cape]

Caltech RD Date

Caltech RD decisions come out <t:1710012120:F> in your local time
7 hours and 3 seconds until the decision date

ApplyingToCollege

[desert nacelle]

💀💀

[limber warren]

I’m not as worried as the UC’s

CalTech is an expected no no for me

Rejected

[stoic verge]

same but delusion is a powerful drug 💀

[dry wraith]

!caltech

[vagrant cape]

Caltech RD Date

Caltech RD decisions come out <t:1710012120:F> in your local time
6 hours, 42 minutes and 2 seconds until the decision date

ApplyingToCollege

[sage star]

I’m coping too hard abt this lmao

[dry wraith]

same

i just wanna see the rejection tho

[knotty lantern]

58 pending?

Tf?

[dry wraith]

don't worry about it

its rejection season nos

now

lac's and t20s

[median blade]

Is that a thing on ur portal?

[dry wraith]

wdym

[median blade]

Nvm I just read ur name

LMAO

[dry wraith]

lmao what

[limber warren]

I’m ready for CalTech rejection

Even though it’s technically the same acceptance rate as UCBerkeley CS OOS

[iron whale]

!caltech

[vagrant cape]

Caltech RD Date

Caltech RD decisions come out <t:1710012120:F> in your local time
6 hours, 27 minutes and 45 seconds until the decision date

ApplyingToCollege

[sage star]

Caltech is much more selective tho

Accepting 400 people is different than several thousand

I’m anticipating a waitlist

[dry wraith]

they don't wait list that many people as well

[limber warren]

Rejection time

I am ready

[vale swallow]

!caltech

[vagrant cape]

Caltech RD Date

Caltech RD decisions come out <t:1710012120:F> in your local time
6 hours, 21 minutes and 19 seconds until the decision date

ApplyingToCollege

[sage star]

Yea

[knotty lantern]

99.5% of their class is top 10%
0.5% of their class is top 15%

[sage star]

Last year they waitlisted 160 people

I think

[knotty lantern]

That’s quite a lot tbf

For 400 spots

[sage star]

Caltechs yield is also like

50%

Lol

[limber warren]

Scared

[desert nacelle]

Wait they waitlist for RD as well?

[sage star]

Yes

[desert nacelle]

I thought waitlisting was only for EA

[sage star]

Waitlist is only for RD

lol

Almost no schools waitlist people early

They will defer or reject them

Or accept

[desert nacelle]

So when do they actually accept/reject people?

[desert nacelle]

Ohhh yeahh I confused deferreals with waitlisted 💀

[knotty lantern]

God damn 😂

Yeah their waitlist prolly has like no one get off

[knotty lantern]

UVA 😠

If only they let me show my damn mid year grades 😭

[sage star]

Its like 10% acceptance rate off of waitlist

[knotty lantern]

So 1.5 people

Who’s the half?

[wraith flower]

go to bed protofrosh

[limber warren]

Oof

I cannot sleep

[desert nacelle]

What time is the decision coming for you guyss?

For me it is 12:52 am 💀💀

[knotty lantern]

2:22pm

I’m confused how urs is 12:52

XD

Since when did the minutes change across time zones

[carmine minnow]

Wtv it's just the start of a March wild ride

[carmine minnow]

This year they're waitlisting more

Like way more

[limber warren]

How do y’all know?

[carmine minnow]

Cuz they sent out a counselor update at the start of the year saying that they overenrolled for three years

[limber warren]

Welp there goes my chances

[carmine minnow]

So they're significantly reducing admits and make way more waitlists

[sage star]

So will more or less people be accepted off the waitlist u think

[limber warren]

Less

[carmine minnow]

According to a recent counselor update from Caltech AOs

[carmine minnow]

Yes, but total waitlist number will also be more

Waitlist to admit has historically been ~10%, I think it's gonna be ~20% this year

[median blade]

@carmine minnow do you have any insider info for RD

[reef harness]

the waitlist is glitched right

[limber warren]

1.3% acceptance rate that’s all I know

Sorry

[reef harness]

So if you got waitlisted you should know?

[knotty lantern]

You got in

[knotty lantern]

Know what?

[limber warren]

AINT no way the waitlist is glitched, which means I’m either an accept or reject

[knotty lantern]

If ur waitlisted ur most likely not getting in still 😂

[median blade]

Lmao

[reef harness]

I heard someone say they saw yesterday they were waitlisted

[median blade]

The thing is I can’t even be waitlisted cuz I got deferred

So that sucks

[desert nacelle]

Indian time zone

[knotty lantern]

Wtf

Why do y’all change minutes

[desert nacelle]

Don't they change as well at times 😭

[knotty lantern]

No

All times change hours

Not minutes

No time zone is changed by minute

[carmine minnow]

Nope Indian tz is +5.5

It's crazy

[knotty lantern]

Tf

[desert nacelle]

Bro IST is 13 hours and 30 minutes ahead of California

[carmine minnow]

Weird tz knowledge I have 💀

[knotty lantern]

well IST is wrong

[desert nacelle]

Huh what 💀

[knotty lantern]

Why y’all gotta be different

[carmine minnow]

Country is too big they gotta take the mean/median

[knotty lantern]

Just do +6 and call it a day

Smh

[carmine minnow]

They don't wanna end up like China

[knotty lantern]

China is the better nation

[carmine minnow]

China tz is +8 for the whole land from +5 to +9

[knotty lantern]

🇨🇳

[desert nacelle]

I don't know, but am glad our country doesn't have different timezones in itself that thing is confusing 😭

[knotty lantern]

I rep the Chinese government

[desert nacelle]

And that daylight savings time is also confusing

[reef harness]

That's sunday right

[desert nacelle]

Yeahh for me

[carmine minnow]

Nope it's worth it for big fat countries

[desert nacelle]

I am not saying it is not worth it, I am just saying it would be confusing for me

[proud basin]

!caltech

[carmine minnow]

My mood rn

[limber warren]

Yus sushi

[proud basin]

We getting in fr fr (insane amount of copium was inhaled)

[limber warren]

Also they admitting less people now because during these past three years they “overaccepted”

[proud basin]

Bruh

[night agate]

there is no way 1.3 percent acceptance right?

or is that true

[reef harness]

..

what

[limber warren]

Half of the admitted applicants were in REA

[night agate]

how many?

135?

They have a class capacity of around 270

WHATTTT

that many in REA????

[limber warren]

Relax yield is 50%

[night agate]

pretty sure

previous year

was

like

130 in REA

[carmine minnow]

nope wrong

[limber warren]

BAKANA

I hate Reddit

So unreliable smh smh

[knotty lantern]

So they’ll admit like 600ppl prolly

Waitlist the rest

[carmine minnow]

they didn't release AR for REA this year, but number of admitted students excluding QB match (25) was anywhere from 50-80.

[carmine minnow]

they overenrolled previous years. Last year, REA + RD was 412.

[desert nacelle]

Wait can anybody explain what waitlisted means to me?

[bronze peak]

ur not in yet but if enough people dont go to the uni if they are accepted u can get in

[desert nacelle]

Ohhh damnnn, thanks a lott

[bronze peak]

np

[desert nacelle]

!caltech

The bot stopped?

[carmine minnow]

so that means ~300 RD admits previous years. This year gonna be at most 250 then. @knotty lantern

[median blade]

Nah it’s over if the bot stopped

[knotty lantern]

Overall class is 400

[carmine minnow]

https://www.caltech.edu/about/news/caltech-extends-admissions-offers-to-class-of-2027

[knotty lantern]

No?

[desert nacelle]

It was over before it even started for me 😲

!caltech

The bot is gone 😢

[tawdry oxide]

When will be the decision

[desert nacelle]

Around 5.5 hours later

[bronze peak]

12:22 california time

[carmine minnow]

it's like Purdue all over again, but at a much smaller percentage scale

[median blade]

No

11:22

[carmine minnow]

11:22 PST

[bronze peak]

oh ya

i only know for my time zone

[median blade]

Arizona?

Lmao

[bronze peak]

EST

[carmine minnow]

then it's 2:22.

[bronze peak]

ya ik

[desert nacelle]

Guys is this your first decision so far or no?

For US it's my first decision

[carmine minnow]

yes, but gonna be lower this year, and around 100 has alr been admitted in REA + QB.

[desert nacelle]

Ohhh wow damnn

[knotty lantern]

REA doesn’t mean they gotta go

I mean those kids will prolly go

Given it was their top choice

[carmine minnow]

yes, and?

[knotty lantern]

Fair

[carmine minnow]

the 2027 class was 412 total.

what are y'all's backups?

also intl needing aid check 😂

ik there are lots of indians here 👀👀

I'll go first: Purdue, UMN (can get below 40k), UDel (May get below 30k), Aalto (full-tuition aid hopefully).

Applied BBE or ChemE to most schools. Biochem/neuro + humanities 2nd choice for LACs.

[forest plaza]

!caltech

[steep ferry]

!caltech

damn y'all broke carl

[bronze peak]

@vagrant cape wake up baby boy

/ girl

[austere hearth]

[modern swallow]

!caltech

[vagrant cape]

Caltech RD Date

Caltech RD decisions come out <t:1710012120:F> in your local time
4 hours, 45 minutes and 31 seconds until the decision date

ApplyingToCollege

[delicate root]

!caltech

[vagrant cape]

Caltech RD Date

Caltech RD decisions come out <t:1710012120:F> in your local time
4 hours, 27 minutes and 29 seconds until the decision date

ApplyingToCollege

[lone apex]

!caltech

[vagrant cape]

Caltech RD Date

Caltech RD decisions come out <t:1710012120:F> in your local time
4 hours, 25 minutes and 59 seconds until the decision date

ApplyingToCollege

[lilac pebble]

!caltech

[vagrant cape]

Caltech RD Date

Caltech RD decisions come out <t:1710012120:F> in your local time
4 hours, 5 minutes and 20 seconds until the decision date

ApplyingToCollege

[vale swallow]

wearing an orange shirt for good luck

[limber warren]

Getting rejected for sure thanks

[vale swallow]

its not calover till its calover

[stoic verge]

!caltech

[vagrant cape]

Caltech RD Date

Caltech RD decisions come out <t:1710012120:F> in your local time
3 hours, 49 minutes and 35 seconds until the decision date

ApplyingToCollege

[austere hearth]

!caltech

[vagrant cape]

Caltech RD Date

Caltech RD decisions come out <t:1710012120:F> in your local time
3 hours, 49 minutes and 27 seconds until the decision date

ApplyingToCollege

[jovial otter]

Hi

Gonna get rejected

[austere hearth]

!caltech

[vagrant cape]

Caltech RD Date

Caltech RD decisions come out <t:1710012120:F> in your local time
3 hours, 46 minutes and 34 seconds until the decision date

ApplyingToCollege

[steep ferry]

you guys got this!!

[stoic verge]

doesnt caltech only accpet like 250 students every year 😭💀

im so cooked

[vale swallow]

😭😭they accept around 400

[stoic verge]

And how many of these are engineering majors?? 😭😭

[vale swallow]

😭😭i have no idea, but ik they dont accept based on majors

[steep ferry]

good luck for caltech decisions guys!!

[vale swallow]

ty!!

[limber warren]

Bad internet

[crimson crown]

i got low hopes

[stoic verge]

!caltech

[vagrant cape]

Caltech RD Date

Caltech RD decisions come out <t:1710012120:F> in your local time
3 hours, 31 minutes and 17 seconds until the decision date

ApplyingToCollege

[median blade]

I hate Caltech

Unless they accept me

[iron whale]

!caltech

[vagrant cape]

Caltech RD Date

Caltech RD decisions come out <t:1710012120:F> in your local time
3 hours, 27 minutes and 12 seconds until the decision date

ApplyingToCollege

[astral fog]

!caltech

[vagrant cape]

Caltech RD Date

Caltech RD decisions come out <t:1710012120:F> in your local time
3 hours, 21 minutes and 13 seconds until the decision date

ApplyingToCollege

[cosmic oxide]

why that specific time for caltech

11:22 am?

[vale swallow]

22*

[cosmic oxide]

oh

[bronze peak]

they wanna be zesty w/ some goofy ah AI riddle

[vale swallow]

they sent us some equation that revealed the time

[bronze peak]

that's literally it

[astral fog]

Fr

[cosmic oxide]

ohhh the earthquake thing?

[bronze peak]

ye

[median blade]

The riddle itself is probably AI generated too

[cosmic oxide]

let's see if the riddle can be solvedd by ai

[vale swallow]

yeah that

[cosmic oxide]

ah easy

11.22

I see

[vale swallow]

yeah W nerdy school

[vale swallow]

yap but some people speculate it could be 11.13

11:13*

[cosmic oxide]

that riddle is making me reconsider caltech

[cosmic oxide]

probably

[silk quiver]

a matter of 9 minutes

[cosmic oxide]

+- 30 mins

[vale swallow]

yeah nothing huge

[vale swallow]

you applied?

[cosmic oxide]

yeah

did you?

!caltech

[vagrant cape]

Caltech RD Date

Caltech RD decisions come out <t:1710012120:F> in your local time
3 hours, 13 minutes and 16 seconds until the decision date

ApplyingToCollege

[cosmic oxide]

3 hours

[proud basin]

!caltech

[vagrant cape]

Caltech RD Date

Caltech RD decisions come out <t:1710012120:F> in your local time
3 hours, 12 minutes and 50 seconds until the decision date

ApplyingToCollege

[cosmic oxide]

the colleges i didnt care much about accepted me

and the ones i cared about

rejected/deferred me

[vale swallow]

yeah i did

[cosmic oxide]

i don't care about caltech

[vale swallow]

ive only received one decision so far😭

[vale swallow]

bahaha

[vale swallow]

same!😤

[cosmic oxide]

ah, no public unis?

[hearty saddle]

bro why u awake at 5 am

[cosmic oxide]

public unis come earlier

jan, feb

early action that is