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

[scenic wind]

yo who got in

i got rejected womp womp

[viral girder]

Am I the only one who hasn't gotten a decision yet?

[native seal]

yeah

[viral girder]

Like I'm on the website and there's no status update

[bronze peak]

You have to check it in the beaver break room

[rare bronze]

You can blur

[slow haven]

me

[scenic wind]

i had the same problem, go through the email

[scenic wind]

big w

[native seal]

i sent a sc to @dawn ridge she can verify

[viral girder]

Oh ok then

[native seal]

im scared ill mess smth up lol

[viral girder]

Rejected lol

230 is crazy

Like how many people even applied there

[vale swallow]

i wanna know if the guy in the plane got in

[scenic wind]

yeah lol i wonder too

[vale swallow]

@low holly

[scenic wind]

i hope he did

[dense pecan]

CONGRATULATIONS

[sage star]

CONGRATS!

[limber warren]

You lucky man

[scenic wind]

time to become a true Caltech reject and get into mit 😊

[limber warren]

If only I applied MIT

[stone stream]

FOR REAL

[crisp dragon]

Congratulations 🍾

[stone stream]

the caltech beaver is ugly af anyway

tim >> whatever the caltech beaver name is

[bronze peak]

Cim

[jovial otter]

Just don’t include your name

[rare bronze]

WOOHOOO

Are u comiyyed

[scenic wind]

so real

[bronze peak]

Comiyyed

[median blade]

commie?

[stone stream]

tim is mit backwards... so caltech =cit and cit backwards is tic??

[median blade]

communist?

[bronze peak]

TIC

THATS WHAT THAT BEAVER IS

A TIC

[median blade]

tic ticks me off fr

[bronze peak]

🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢

[stone stream]

LMFAOOOOOO

[tawdry oxide]

My friend refuses to tell me his decision how can I know it

[median blade]

hack his account

[bronze peak]

He got rejected

[stone stream]

tic looks like a beastars character

[median blade]

LOL

TRUE neetro

[tawdry oxide]

@bronze peak I dont think so, he is the best student at my school.

[bronze peak]

Caltech rejects the very best

[vale swallow]

if he got in he wouldnt shut up about it

[stone stream]

best student at my school got WL

[tropic kraken]

ohh

[tawdry oxide]

He said he won't say any of his decisions even before the decision

[vale swallow]

oooh fair enough

[scenic wind]

exactly why they rejected me

[bronze peak]

Yes Joren

[stone stream]

THEIR LOSS

[bronze peak]

Sup

[crisp dragon]

Oh that’s my friend who got in lmao

[wild needle]

does anyone have a screenshot of the email they sent to counselors?

[wild needle]

they usually (and i think did?) send an email to school counselors before decisions come out that has info about the number of people waitlisted and accepted and stuff

[jovial otter]

What is your opinion on Caltech as someone who goes there?

[marble tartan]

dont do my boy bernoulli like that

[wild needle]

apparently

[limber warren]

Rejected smh smh

w/ nasa internship

[rare bronze]

@calm inlet

[calm inlet]

thanks

how much they take for first year

[bronze peak]

mid, overrated & overworked

most ppl go into grad school, and those that dont get generally pretty mid jobs besides the rly cracked quant/finance kids

if u have the option of going to a non-Brown/Dart/Cornell ivy or MIT/Stanford go with the other school 100%

although if ur a mega sweat that has ambitions of nothing but a PhD yea this place is probably for u

[crisp dragon]

Bro is helping me cope 🙏

[bronze peak]

also you work just a ton more than ur ivy peers for worse outcomes

[bronze peak]

this is how most HS students feel

bc to them selective school = good

[carmine minnow]

Median income is 125k tho

[crisp dragon]

Would you say in terms of cs caltech or Berkeley

[bronze peak]

uh equal

caltech more "prestigious"

and if u wanna land quant or smth its bettert

[bronze peak]

hows that even good for the hours u put in

a wharton kid that has piss easy academics gets an IB job that pays near 200k

or a PE job 250+

[carmine minnow]

It's rlly rigorous as someone who visited for a few days

[bronze peak]

125 is just mid tier SWE you can get by being a good student at UIUC / UT etc

[spring yew]

+1

[crisp dragon]

I heard caltech doesn’t really teach practical stuff and more theoretical

[bronze peak]

lmaol

kinda

but thats a lie by the school in a way

"theroretical" = dont teach concepts and just have u derive math formulas all day (use PDEs/LinAlg in biology classes)

[waxen yarrow]

is caltech a good party school?

[carmine minnow]

Coping but all the students panels were like "this is a rlly hard place, but like everyone's in it tgt"

[bronze peak]

and then spend 15-20 hr a week on a class and walk away with a shittier understanding than a state school kid who spent 5hr a week in the class

[bronze peak]

u gotta be joking my guy

[crisp dragon]

What’s the dating scene at caltech like

[bronze peak]

https://tenor.com/view/shrek-and-fiona-shrek-princess-fiona-gif-11207549549343044264

[waxen yarrow]

are there frats on campus

realtalk

[carmine minnow]

Quite dead imo, but there are small "academic" parties/hanging out rather than big ones

[bronze peak]

eh house system -- some houses think theyre cool but are still shit

[bronze peak]

not quite accurate

but yeah it is

extremely dead

[crisp dragon]

Does it get tiring to see the same 900 people on campus

[bronze peak]

you mean 300 because 600 of them never leave their dorms and dont shower

[carmine minnow]

Students were making pins to have fun :)))

[bronze peak]

yes it does

not even kidding on the not showering part

fully serious

fully fully serious

[crisp dragon]

Bro is going through it

[bronze peak]

nah im just being fr boss

ok im prob exaggerating

u can be here and not hate ur life n all

but it will be a worse experience than its peer schools 100% of the time

is sorta the conclusion

[crisp dragon]

What do people do for fun there

[bronze peak]

whenever i hear someone that chose caltehc > mit/stanford/ivy they deserve to be slapped

[marble tartan]

is it true that caltech focuses on grad students more

[bronze peak]

fun?

[bronze peak]

100%

great place to do grad school

probs the best

[limber warren]

Honestly Academic Weapon, you made my day. I didn’t know CalTech was a stressful place. But couldn’t you also argue the same goes for every school or is CalTech basically an exception?

[bronze peak]

lmao

yeah wharton kids think theyre "stressed'

bc they have to learn how to go from EBIDTA to FCF

[limber warren]

But are they?

Or is it subjective?

[bronze peak]

subvjective obv

[crisp dragon]

What’s the average time y’all spend on coursework per day

[marble tartan]

the reason behind walter whites success

[bronze peak]

real af man

[bronze peak]

depends on major

tbh cs is p chill here

cs like 60hr a week on school

[crisp dragon]

Damn

[carmine minnow]

MIT and Caltech are stressful.

[bronze peak]

easiset major at caltech 100%

[bronze peak]

yuppp

mit has normal people at leasdt

[marble tartan]

😂 this is mad funny but true

[median blade]

@carmine minnow u get in?

[carmine minnow]

Penn, Columbia, and Stanford community are rlly competitive

[carmine minnow]

Nope 😭

[bronze peak]

lol

[carmine minnow]

So far only 4 ppl on the CUC server got rejected

[marble tartan]

unless ur against social life, happiness, and showers dont go to caltech 😂

[bronze peak]

stanford yea

[bronze peak]

💯

[marble tartan]

why not brown tho

[crisp dragon]

It’s really that bad 💀

[bronze peak]

mid

if it wasnt an ivy whats to it

[median blade]

MIT is so so so so so much better

[bronze peak]

cornell & dart > brown fs

[crisp dragon]

Yeah a lot of cuc kids got admitted it seems like

[bronze peak]

MIT actually has student life

[median blade]

???

Dart????

[bronze peak]

yup

[crisp dragon]

Cornell is pretty dead itself

[median blade]

Brown is good bro

They have the open curriculum

[bronze peak]

nah this is a chronic a2c opinion

[marble tartan]

so many brown ED kids got into mit but couldnt go lol

[median blade]

Dart 💩💩💩💩

[bronze peak]

def go caltech in this situation even tho ull hate urself

oh wait

for cs

yeah easily caltehc

cs isnt terrible here

[marble tartan]

between 0% and 100% of applicants

[waxen yarrow]

georgia tech

[crisp dragon]

Georgia tech is hot

[bronze peak]

yeah dart so terrible, only place absolutely insanely on wall st, consulting & place top tier into HYPSM grad school

what a terrible place

[median blade]

LOL FR

[bronze peak]

Wait academic weapon

Did you get into stanford

[carmine minnow]

Better parties too lmao

[bronze peak]

no lmao

u think id be here if i got imto stanford

[crisp dragon]

What schools did you get in

[bronze peak]

No

[crisp dragon]

Lmao

[bronze peak]

only applied t10

bc im a degen

[carmine minnow]

Usually Caltech don't cross admit w/ other schools loll

[crisp dragon]

What a goat

[median blade]

AcademicWeapon what do u think of “the AOs never make mistakes” at Caltech

[bronze peak]

Yeah I noticed

[bronze peak]

lol

[median blade]

LOL

[bronze peak]

obv cope

[bronze peak]

they most DEFINITELY make mistakes

[crisp dragon]

Damn is that really getting to you

[bronze peak]

i mean

if you’re gonna have a low ass acceptance rate

[limber warren]

What does a CalTech waitlist letter look like anyway?

[bronze peak]

Don’t even TRY justifying that

[median blade]

Wdym

[bronze peak]

the smartest guy here was waitlist

so

yeah

[median blade]

No I just heard some people say that

[bronze peak]

dumbest guy was EA admit

[median blade]

On Reddit

[bronze peak]

so its obviously a cope from Admissions

[median blade]

LOL

[carmine minnow]

"lol wait more"

[bronze peak]

admissions tells us that all the time

gigacope

[bronze peak]

How’s the dating scene

[crisp dragon]

Lol AOs everywhere are weird, they’re human after all

[median blade]

Who’s the most ORZ math major

[bronze peak]

https://tenor.com/view/shrek-shrek2-beach-fiona-fiona-shrek-gif-26963060

^^ avg calktech couple

LMFAO NAHH

[crisp dragon]

There are couples there?

[marble tartan]

dating? like carbon dating?

[bronze peak]

"couples"

[crisp dragon]

What do they do on dates

[median blade]

Physics problems

[bronze peak]

Rubik’s cube solving

[median blade]

“OH MY GOSH THIS FLUID IS CIRCULATING SO MUCH”

[marble tartan]

bro there arent even women there

[median blade]

LET ME USE NAVIER STOKES TO UNDERSTAND IT BETTER

[bronze peak]

They probably use old homework assignments as toilet paper

[crisp dragon]

Does caltech have caltech goggles like Berkeley goggles

[median blade]

Idt this is true anymore

[crisp dragon]

It’s not

[bronze peak]

way worse

berk has hella baddies

ppl just love to cope

[bronze peak]

more women than guys at this point but pretty much equal

also

uh

Caltech got shit on so hard this year

[marble tartan]

caltech women in shambles rn

[crisp dragon]

B-b-but the academic weapons

[bronze peak]

I bet the few who got admitted feel nervous now 💀

Congrats to them ofc

[median blade]

Fr

[bronze peak]

They did the impossible

real

And I’m happy to them

yeah like

if anyone reading this

[median blade]

Imagine they get 0% yield

That’d be wild

[bronze peak]

know im just an idiot procrastinating w finals

[crisp dragon]

Doubt

[bronze peak]

and im sure u could have a good time here

[crisp dragon]

Could is crazy

[bronze peak]

lol

[abstract needle]

what major r u @bronze peak

[bronze peak]

not doxxing

non cs majors have like

Only time the rejected feel better than the accepted

[abstract needle]

or are you a frosh

[bronze peak]

5-10 ppl each in them

Nah

no way

do the breakdown

220 kids a grade

50% cs

25% mechE

0.25*220

do the math

55 kids for dozens majors

[median blade]

I thought math major would be decent

Dang that’s insane tho

[bronze peak]

applied math p decent fs

pure math is a small crowd

[crisp dragon]

Who does pure math

[median blade]

(Me)

[marble tartan]

220 students in a class is insane to think about

[bronze peak]

yup and then u think youll know everyone

[crisp dragon]

Yeah definitely not my thing

[bronze peak]

then realize 1/2 the class is antisocial nerds

[median blade]

lmao

[bronze peak]

and then u end up knowing of like 100 ppl

[median blade]

Are people genuinely that antisocial

[crisp dragon]

Some people like that apparently

[bronze peak]

cool

[marble tartan]

what part lmao

[median blade]

Like I thought if you wanna actually do well in academia

You kinda have to be social

[bronze peak]

yea u pick that up by force

Does caltech at least have a decent campoos

although some profs r rly extroverted

Oh and what about those pizza classes

[bronze peak]

yea campus pretty beautifuil

or the take home exams

[bronze peak]

gimmick lol

1 hour a week lectuer

[median blade]

lmao

[bronze peak]

oh so it ain’t allat

u take first term frosh year

[median blade]

Goofy af

[bronze peak]

just a gimmick

[median blade]

Do people cheat a lot

On exams

[normal seal]

@bronze peak Umass amherst full ride or caltech 80k a year

[bronze peak]

surprisingly nah

[median blade]

I saw on the Caltech confessions page that it was increasing or smth

Oh that’s good then

[bronze peak]

uh depends on ur situation feel free to dm

or is this hypohteitcla

[bronze peak]

yeah probs

[marble tartan]

umass

[bronze peak]

not too easy to cheat tbh

oh wait umas

[median blade]

Questions are just not easy to copy cuz of difficulty?

[bronze peak]

nah i read amherst at first

[normal seal]

Im judt wondering

[marble tartan]

caltech degree is def not worth 320k lmao

[night agate]

isnt it take home tho? Like you can cheat easily

[bronze peak]

unless ur low income in which case it wouldnt be 80k a year anyway

[marble tartan]

no HYPSM degree worth 320k tho

[bronze peak]

yeah look at the questions

[bronze peak]

nah def depends

[night agate]

yeah stilll tho lol

[crisp dragon]

Would caltech be worth going into debt for

[bronze peak]

ive gotten job offers id never have even been looked at for if i didnt go to a top school

[bronze peak]

if ur gonna go into a high paying field that only a school like caltehc allows u to ya

[median blade]

Like what

[bronze peak]

if ur just gonna get a phd then no

[bronze peak]

anything thats prestige focused eg quant jobs that pay 400k+ out of college

[median blade]

I was saying like what offers have u gotten

[crisp dragon]

Isn’t the work life balance for quant kind of dog

[median blade]

Not the other comment

Or were u responding to that

[carmine minnow]

Yes but you work for 3 years and rhen out

[bronze peak]

not doxxing

i mean dm me

sure

[median blade]

k

[carmine minnow]

It's gorgeous 🥲

[bronze peak]

Oh damn

[crisp dragon]

That’s a lot of people

[median blade]

LOL

LOOOOOOOL

[carmine minnow]

They're in their dorms, he told ya

I feel like only 15% of the students are outside at any given time

Max 30

[bronze peak]

yupp but always dead af bc everyone in their dorms

very beuatiufcl tho i wil agree

[bronze peak]

yupppp

[carmine minnow]

The dorms have drawings all over inside

[bronze peak]

yea and theyre all depression based

jk not all

what’s that cool little circle thing in the middle of campus

[carmine minnow]

Yea like 50% 💀

[bronze peak]

but page house notoriously

has

"caltech where your best is not good enough ro some shit

i forget tbh'

[carmine minnow]

Erm a wedding cake

[bronze peak]

auditorium

Is it cool inside

yea ig

i mea

i mean

noithnkg special

I see

[carmine minnow]

Is the quarter system crazy everywhere or just at Caltech 💀 cuz I'm considering some quarter schools.

[bronze peak]

nah quarters r p chill at stanford and uchicago

trust me the quarter system is not part of the problem

[carmine minnow]

*Northwestern 👁️👄👁️

/j

[restive tiger]

erm

[glacial vault]

Yall guess who didn’t get into caltech

Meeeee

[scenic wind]

twinsssss

[peak fiber]

Me toooo

[muted pewter]

Omg sameeee

[daring tiger]

Samesies

[halcyon stone]

quarter system goated overall

less classes to focus on at the same time + more flexibility in arranging classes + classes last less time so you can move on quicker etc.

[steep ferry]

im deleting this, don't doxx yourself or friends!

[dry wraith]

i mean with 230 kids, give or take a few, who even did. seeing everyone applied to caltech, they likely had a less than 1% acceptance rate. at that point you are not making a class, just randomly rolling a dice would be better.

[bronze peak]

Acceptance is more like 2%

Our yield is <50%

[solemn carbon]

<50% yield is funny

[bronze peak]

Is it surprising

[lone apex]

2% overall 1% for REA and 1% is RD

[bronze peak]

Yea prob

[dawn ridge]

So who got in in the end

[dry wraith]

i mean i am assuming that with underadmit instead of over admit and much more applications than last year 1% or 2% doesn't really matter.

[dawn ridge]

I heard it was a blood bath

[lone apex]

Twas indeed

[crisp dragon]

I could probably see why

[dawn ridge]

Womp womp

[crisp dragon]

Friend got in, I think 2 from here

[dawn ridge]

Not too bad not too bad

I expected like one person to get in tbh

[crisp dragon]

Out of 230 people I believe is pretty good

[dawn ridge]

Doubled my expectations

Wonderful

[dawn ridge]

What no

[crisp dragon]

Lmao

[dawn ridge]

It’s out of like 360

They accept more ppl than they can enroll

[crisp dragon]

Oh damn

I thought they were looking to cut their enrollments

[dawn ridge]

Idek

[bronze peak]

Yea we overenrolled last year

For ‘27

Had like 270 instead of 220

Theoretically if you guys were class of 27 you would’ve had 100 more admit spots

[crisp dragon]

Wow so there could’ve been 5 people outside per day instead of 3

[bronze peak]

Maybe 4

I’m exaggerating a bit

There’s def decent ppl here

But small class size rly beats that down

Even the chill ppl just disappear bc they’re so busy

[crisp dragon]

Do people ever drop out of caltech?

[dry wraith]

pretty sure they have the lowest drop rate

1-2% only

[solemn carbon]

wait @bronze peak we have a mutual friend lmao dyk amit

[crisp dragon]

How do you have 57 pending bro

[jovial otter]

International moment 💀

[bronze peak]

We have a 90% 4 year graduation rate

So yes

Quite high

Actually like 92-93

But still

Think about what that means

[bronze peak]

Nah prob from another server tho

Although fully dropping out def rare

[solemn carbon]

oh

ic

[bronze peak]

Like

Most ppl end up finishing at some point

Also admin extremely un accommodating if u have emergencies w family or health

Alr I been hating too much lowkey

There’s also rly positive shit I have to say tbf

[wraith flower]

some of the worst pictures you could've sent 😭 lemme send mind @bronze peak

a bit of an idea of what campus looks like:

[coral grail]

same

[wraith flower]

you can walk across campus in about 10 minutes, it's pretty dark at night but there's a decent amount of lights still and it's rly nice and peaceful at night imo

lots of fun places to find

admittedly I got super lucky but this is the view from my room:

[crisp dragon]

Looks pretty cozy lol

I visited there a long time ago

Vaguely remember the campus but it was very hot

[bronze peak]

Yo u in marks?

Where is this am I tweakin

[wraith flower]

Bechtel ofc

[bronze peak]

Huh

[wraith flower]

del mar is north side

[bronze peak]

Bro I’m tweakin

[wraith flower]

/mountains are north

[bronze peak]

Oh ye

Well not familiar w bechtel at all tbf

[bronze peak]

@wraith flower how…are you still sane

I would’ve died

[wraith flower]

wdym, are you just talking about the courseload?

[bronze peak]

yes

they say CIT is the most rigorous school in the US

[wraith flower]

i mean it's fine. it's not for everyone, and there are times it really sucks, but it's manageable and i wouldn't have chosen differently

[bronze peak]

I see

Not like I could understand

I’d get insta rejected

[waxen yarrow]

does caltech send promotional material

i was never smart enough to recieve their spam mail

[bronze peak]

Dude

Caltech spammed the living fuck out of me

They even sent a video of my regional AO speaking in a video

I figured it was just spam tho

Even got physical letters

[crisp dragon]

Rip

[bronze peak]

Why rip

[crisp dragon]

?

[bronze peak]

You said rip

[crisp dragon]

It’s just one of my dialogue options dw about it

[narrow raven]

Is a WL from caltech rly good

[crisp dragon]

Yeah idk about your chances of getting off the waitlist but def better than rejection

[waxen yarrow]

does any acceptance mean i got in?

[crisp dragon]

Given that majority got rejected 💀

[bronze peak]

Have you checked

[jovial otter]

Pls share

[lone apex]

Did you get in?

[bronze peak]

I was about to apply

But I didn’t

[lone apex]

I got a video from my regional AO too lmaooo

[dry wraith]

real

[bronze peak]

With these results

I feel like I was being baited

So I basically got rejected tbh

[lone apex]

I got rejected dw

but I also received an Ivy likely s

so fuck it we ball

[bronze peak]

Oh you

I’m scared as balls rn

[lone apex]

?

[bronze peak]

I haven’t gotten anything

I’m waiting back from UMich and stanford

[lone apex]

Yeah uncertainty is probably the worst part abt the process

[bronze peak]

But people keep getting fucked over here

[lone apex]

Caltech is wildly selective

Dw abt it

[bronze peak]

Alright

[lone apex]

Imo I’m a competitive applicant especially for my major

[bronze peak]

yeah ur built diff boss

[lone apex]

But still didn’t even come close to getting me a spot to caltech

[bronze peak]

yo fwiw i got WLd -> Rejected by columbia

lol

also know a dude that chose columbia > caltech

[lone apex]

I would’ve chose Columbia over caltech lol

[bronze peak]

as u should

i woudlve too

[lone apex]

Where do you go?

[bronze peak]

caltech

lol

[lone apex]

oh

LMAOOO

wild

I live on the east coast too so no point in going to caltech Nyways

[bronze peak]

me too man

[lone apex]

And tbf I don’t think Columbia CS versus Caltech CS would be a huge difference

Especially if I am just going into corporate America not research based

[bronze peak]

lol yea

plus ull be happy

so

[lone apex]

Now for research probs caltech

But I have no intention on doing anything of the sort

[bronze peak]

yea although if u want resarch caltech grad school always a thing

[lone apex]

If I don’t get into MIT Thursday I’m def applying MIT grad

Tho hopefully I get into MIT

[bronze peak]

u didnt commit?

to columbia

[lone apex]

Nah

[bronze peak]

gotcha

wait ivies r out

?

[lone apex]

I just got a likely letter Thursday lmaooo

[bronze peak]

oh what a beast

got MIT locked

wtf

[lone apex]

I hope so

I got deferred early

[bronze peak]

likely is insane

[lone apex]

MIT twas my dream I fully intended (and intend to) commit day of if I am accepted

Alas dreams are often just that dreams

[bronze peak]

nah mit locked

if not who cares anyway

[wraith flower]

aren't you also Caltech?

[bronze peak]

ny > boston anyday

[bronze peak]

yea but im a brick

[lone apex]

LMAO THIS IS WILD

[wraith flower]

ngl i'd much prefer boston personally

especially cause I'd imagine it's similar to Copenhagen (better public transit/etc/less "monstrous")

[bronze peak]

fair take tbf

[lone apex]

I’ve never even been to a big city

[bronze peak]

gotcha

[wraith flower]

rural MO ✨

[bronze peak]

yeah going to a top school is a huge shift if ur low income

[lone apex]

a welcome huge shift tho

[bronze peak]

100%

[waxen yarrow]

i played roblox with you

[wraith flower]

assuming they pay you enough*

[lone apex]

What

[wraith flower]

ig it's still a huge shift even if you don't get paid catKek

[lone apex]

Hopefully I get paid enough

Don’t be manifesting bad things

[wraith flower]

🤞 for you then

i found that MIT paid less than Caltech but I still have to pay a rather sizeable amount to attend here

[lone apex]

Damn

I mean makes sense though

Caltech is a fraction of the size

Also I think it’s kinda wild they cut their admitted students by 300 lol

[wraith flower]

i mean personally i don't think i should've been paying anything at either school catKek

WashU in St.L offered me enough to profit from attending

[lone apex]

I worked extra hard imo on caltech, MIT, and Stanfords app

[crisp dragon]

Feel like especially if you're doing cs the school you go to is negligible, the name would probably help you get an interview but as for everything else idk

[wraith flower]

but in any case, just keep in mind that finaid can (unfortunately) screw you over.

i wish you the best of luck tho

[lone apex]

I feel like in the current employment environment anyways name recognition can boost you a lot

Even more so companies that recruit directly from schools

You can read more on it yourself, but I delved deep into FANG recruiting directly from MIT, Stanford, Columbia, etc.

Only a slight spike in Stanford due to Silicon Valley

Negligible spike tho like 2%

[crisp dragon]

Yeah there's definitely still target schools, but California in particular has a lot of networking opportunities

[lone apex]

Sure but networking opportunities exist at all T10s really

[crisp dragon]

I mean I heard a lot about sjsu cs

[lone apex]

Not rlly cs in particular tho

Like Harvard connections are Harvard connections

Whether they are CS or in investment banking

[crisp dragon]

true

[lone apex]

Those are connections that will give you many opportunities

I am in total agreement that only looking at prestige is the WRONG idea, but it has some truth to it in the sense that the name recognition that comes along with prestige and the networking opportunities should definitely be taken into account

But do I honestly think MIT CS versus Harvard CS vs GeorgeTown CS makes you better/worse at CS? No

But I guarantee a company is going to put THEIR bet on someone who graduated from MIt/Harvard bc they’re proven winners

[crisp dragon]

Yeah I don't doubt that a Harvard grad is going to be unemployed despite Harvard having not that good of a cs program compared to the other big name schools

[lone apex]

Oh yeah for sure

if you went to Harvard cs or Yale cs or Columbia cs or even MIT cs you’re going to get the same benefits as far as what we’re talking about goes

[jovial otter]

NYC has the best public transportation system of any city in the US

[bronze peak]

True

[crisp dragon]

The power of the ivy league

[bronze peak]

Do Ivy League school grow position ivy

[lone apex]

?

Lol no

[bronze peak]

poisoon

[lone apex]

Tho I’ve heard they grow the Ivy in some dorms

[wraith flower]

oh that's nice

what about biking?

[jovial otter]

I mean you can bike

Might get hit by a car

[wraith flower]

lmao

[jovial otter]

But I think it’s prob easier to bike there than Boston

[wraith flower]

wait really? damn

[jovial otter]

But idk Boston as well (funny bc I live in MA)

[wraith flower]

I'd have expected the opposite

[jovial otter]

I mean roads are designed for cars not bikes

[lone apex]

NYC has the most developed public transportation system

[jovial otter]

But like NYC has tons of bike lanes now

[lone apex]

NYC is known for the subway

[jovial otter]

But you’re still right next to giant metal things that can kill you easily

[lone apex]

I would say they have great public transport but as far as quality (meaning cleanliness) goes idk

[jovial otter]

You get used to it

[bronze peak]

NYC also has an extensive bus network

and ferries

and people picked up Wes

[jovial otter]

Just wash your hand after and avoid the homeless people tripping balls or smoking weed on the subway 😂

[bronze peak]

I used the subway alone when visiting once

literally nothing weird happeneda

And there’s less homeless people than I expected

[jovial otter]

Yeah it’s generally fine

But if you live in NYC you’ll see everything eventually

I don’t even live there and I’ve seen plenty

[bronze peak]

I’m sure I’ve seen everything

After all my friend has gone to town on me

[low holly]

Yo lads

Rejected lol

I was so tired yesterday I slept when I arrived from the airport so I opened it today morning 😭

[vale swallow]

😭😭damn i can imagine how anxious you got, waiting for that long to open

[vale swallow]

same here

[low holly]

Not rlly 💀

I was tired

[vale swallow]

tim is the better beaver anyway

[low holly]

I just slept

😭

[low holly]

Didn’t apply Tbf

[vale swallow]

oooh lmao😭

[vale swallow]

😭💀 i did, and tim is about to reject me as well fml

[low holly]

I mean 💀 it’s MIT and Caltech 😭

[vale swallow]

😭💀yeah fair play

[low holly]

most likely Ivy I might get into would be Cornell but otherwise I don’t have much hope lmao

my dream is gatech cuz of price

And rep

[crisp dragon]

I’d be happy with any of the schools on my commonapp (they’re all reaches)

[low holly]

Yeah same

but I gave up on the rlly top ones on my list lol

US holistic admissions 💀

[crisp dragon]

Personally I felt like my Cornell essay was pretty decent but that doesn’t make up for my incompetent stats 💀

[low holly]

Same I did the diversity one

[crisp dragon]

Well holistic sometimes means money too

[low holly]

Cuz of my age

[crisp dragon]

I pulled the race card

[low holly]

And a lot of my ECs work well with it

[crisp dragon]

And tied it in with my major

And Cornell

[low holly]

Ah that’s good

[crisp dragon]

We’ll just see 🙏

[low holly]

do u like my new name 😎

[crisp dragon]

Beavers are overrated anyways

[limber warren]

Rejected

From both CalTech and GaTech

Disappointed sad

[crisp dragon]

What’s with the .5 acceptance

[low holly]

yes bees have a purpose

honey

[low holly]

Average tech uni experience

[low holly]

Probably a likely/interview/shortlist

[limber warren]

No its community college :]

[low holly]

oh nice

[crisp dragon]

Getting really hard to see the light at the end of this tunnel

[warm perch]

if u add one percent and one percent wouldn’t it still be one percent

so both can’t be 1%?

[stark wharf]

tysm for actually knowing how to take a photo istg half of a2c can't hold their phone straight despite being on it for 18 hours a day

[steep ferry]

LMAO

ok but thats so pretty

[midnight steppe]

!caltech

[vagrant cape]

Caltech RD Date

Caltech RD decisions come out <t:1710012120:F> in your local time
0 minutes until the decision date

ApplyingToCollege

[midnight steppe]

ah so this is what u see after decision

[midnight steppe]

is this caltech??

[wraith flower]

yee all of it

[midnight steppe]

damn it's so pretty

[wraith flower]

the turtle pond picture does not do it justice

[midnight steppe]

now i regret not applying (as if i'd get in lol)

[low holly]

give me some copium

for a Caltech rejection

we don’t want Caltech praise no more 😔

[midnight steppe]

wdym it doesn't

[wraith flower]

i mean straight up I'll totally agree it's not a school for everyone.
you'll find a good place for you, no matter where you go 🧡

[low holly]

no I meant like those funny posts 😭 on Reddit where they’ll just say random jokes on a school

like Pasadena? Seriously etc

[wraith flower]

you say, like I browse reddit PikaMadLaugh~2

[low holly]

😭

Unironically 💀 the person ik from my country who graduated from there has grey hairs and he’s literally still young

[steep ferry]

lmao you have to interact with adults too much

my bestie if you're in college you're an adult 😭

[surreal torrent]

i am NOT an adult yet and def wont be until atleast the next 5 years

[steep ferry]

sure...

[normal seal]

You transferred from mit to gt?

[halcyon stone]

fr?

thats fucked

[limber warren]

It’s happened before

[halcyon stone]

all the other top schools r rly chill abt extenuating circumstances

[bronze peak]

He left 😦

[lone apex]

[midnight steppe]

😵‍💫

[warm perch]

what 😞😞

[native seal]

me

[hazy patrol]

bro same its jus been weither acceptances or deferrals so far

[unique lark]

so i got waitlisted from caltech, but they said that they will finish completing waitlist activity by July 1, can i switch from my commited college if i get in through the waitlist

[bronze peak]

Depends on the college

[unique lark]

ok

[wild needle]

i mean, they can’t stop you but you might lose the deposit

[stark wharf]

how tf did i make starboard in the caltech thread of all places 😭

[abstract needle]

^you can switch to caltech if you were to get off the waitlist

[peak mauve]

caltech is infinitely prettier than mit

😩

[native seal]

bernoulli is cuteer

[dark fjord]

LMAO

this is the real reason to not go to caltech

[knotty lantern]

fr

Tim's dump truck is massive

you cannot argue that

[bronze peak]

Lmfao

[marsh solar]

How are majors assigned at caltech? My portal just says EE+Cs but as an “academic interest”, I’m guessing that’s not concrete?

[tropic kraken]

Can we not be weird 😭

[wraith flower]

nope!
so basically you'll do your frosh year then declare your major

and it can be whatever you want, so don't really worry about it until this time next year

[knotty lantern]

Yk I’m right 💀

But yes I’ll stop

[marsh solar]

Thanks! Is there a chance I won’t get the major I want?

[wraith flower]

not at all, caltech doesn't restrict it at all so you'd have nothing to worry about

the only thing you should be worried about is making sure to explore what else you're interested in if you're undecided

[native seal]

you should join the admitted discord server

we had an info session about academics yesterday

[marsh solar]

Facts. Gonna do that fs

[wraith flower]

^ definitely join the admitted discord, it'll be a lot more active/have more knowledgeable ppl

[gentle tide]

Anyone waitlisted?

[inner dock]

i was

[sage star]

Me

[knotty lantern]

Bro 😭

Ur smart as fuck how

[halcyon stone]

u need to b smart af to get on the waitlist lol