Caltech (2025-2026)

[proper fable]

Ignore everything else i said

[warped cosmos]

You got lucky

[proper fable]

Wtf

[red light]

Also holy bloodbath

[proper fable]

This genuinely is greed

[haughty ferry]

HYSPM decisions left

[feral narwhal]

MIT

[cunning iron]

Waiting for the big Massachusetts now

[haughty ferry]

I'm so getting rejected everywhere

[unique patrol]

This feels like the worst poll I've seen out of all the schools ngl

[vagrant cape]

ts lowk not a bloodbath this is normal

[red light]

Massachudsetts

[versed bobcat]

same

[narrow nacelle]

CONGRATULATIONS!!

[calm fossil]

uchi tmrw and mit the day after

[haughty ferry]

Yeah caltech is just a cheap mit copy, who wants to go there smh

[empty spindle]

CONGRATS !!

[red light]

Not wrong tbh

[cunning iron]

FRRR

[thick dune]

im gonna go sleep before my brain does worse things gnite lads

[versed bobcat]

its caltech

[vagrant cape]

REAL

[proper fable]

good night man, sleep well

[red light]

Caltech is in fact the hardest 😭🙏

[empty spindle]

its always the genshin fans sweeping stem schools (not a diss i think its funny <3)

[peak lily]

💀 💀

[dapper elbow]

hey guys i did NOT apply

[proper fable]

Guys u dont want to go to calMID or MID

[narrow nacelle]

Rejected.

[snow ivy]

lowkey nu

[haughty ferry]

*poorest
not even full international need

[empty spindle]

take care 🫂 !! youll get somewhere better

[proper fable]

Theyre both MID

[static coral]

why’s that?

[thick dune]

congrats to all those who got accepted! wishing y'all a fun time in cali

[quartz cypress]

Tim '30🙏

[strong gazelle]

Who was deferred-> rejected???

[calm fossil]

4 acceptances

[empty spindle]

its always NU..................

[warped cosmos]

Last year

[fleet goblet]

I cant believe I got Yield protected from caltech bro

[unique patrol]

LMAO wtf

[proper fable]

For umich bro?????

LMFA O

[feral narwhal]

😭😭🙏🙏

[warped cosmos]

We got up to 60 before we had an accept

[cunning iron]

congrats on whoever got in!!!

[empty spindle]

OKAY TWIN THAT GOT WL AT CTECH GOT INTO CMU but she isnt happy :(

[versed bobcat]

no limit to the larp

[quartz cypress]

Now Princeton EA looks like a saint😭🙏

[haughty ferry]

Uh welp int + not amazing scores + no major awards

[deep sparrow]

rejected

[static coral]

she’ll come to terms with it, CMU is great!

[deep sparrow]

happens

[versed bobcat]

dw bro we alla re

except 2 ppl

exactly as expected

[static coral]

have you gotten any so far? :v

[quartz cypress]

We still have MIT

[versed bobcat]

be so fr

it aint happenin

[quartz cypress]

See yall on pi day

[dapper elbow]

WE still have ucsd

[haughty ferry]

Rejected from caltech accepted KCL. waiting for HYSPM

[feral narwhal]

Has anyone from a2c got into all of chypsm

[gaunt surge]

It’s Caltech it’s fine they have a tiny class size

[versed bobcat]

MIT has no reason to accept me dawg

[static coral]

I see. I’ve only gotten two acceptances, so it happens xd

[empty spindle]

ikr!!!! cmu is literally so hard to get into. she's extremely motivated and dedicated. im sure she'll get other schools too tbh

[frank arch]

chypsm is kind of crazy lol

[gaunt surge]

Also trust me as somebody who’s driven around Pasadena it’s actually hellish 💀

[feral narwhal]

For your amazingly cosmic soul

[dapper elbow]

ew pasadena

[empty spindle]

dont speak ill of pasadena it rockssss

[feral narwhal]

There gotta be someone out there who’s done it

[static coral]

she’ll end up happy with wherever she commits :)

rejection lowk lets you see all the good at the schools you got!

[haughty ferry]

Honestly rejection isn't bad I aint even sad

[gaunt surge]

I’ve almost crashed there like two times in one afternoon the streets are so bad nice city tho

[quartz cypress]

To those who got rejected - that's fine. You always have another colleges coming. You need 1!

[deep sparrow]

yeah

[haughty ferry]

Acceptance would have given me even more misery lmao

[empty spindle]

real!!! i havent gotten rejections since i applied to pretty much all safeties but theres good everywhere

[deep sparrow]

its also research uni and I dont rlly liek research

[thick dune]

tbf we were all expecting ts for the past couple hours

[versed bobcat]

expected outcome

[quartz cypress]

To those who got accepted - congratulations on proving you're the nerdiest nerds!

[thick dune]

why 👀

[static coral]

yep! I only got two acceptances and LOVE the second one of the two (I committed to it)

[prime crypt]

has ANYONE got in

[haughty ferry]

dunno if i wanna even go to the mit clone

[wintry mauve]

Wl 😭

[prime crypt]

i have decided i will not be checking

[thick dune]

I mean fair enough

[calm fossil]

only 245 is still crazy

[wintry mauve]

Two wl today

[versed bobcat]

2

[prime crypt]

i enjoy the peace of not knowing

[static coral]

we’re ALL nerds 😎

[empty spindle]

congrats where at!!

[bitter path]

U rej too?

[versed bobcat]

more than most

[thick dune]

ofc

[bitter path]

Cooked

Gg

[static coral]

SBU for physics

[deep sparrow]

whats sbu

[static coral]

stony brook

[deep sparrow]

i see

[versed bobcat]

man i aint getting a phd

[static coral]

yes you are, shush

[quartz cypress]

Ok guys see yall on pi day

[static coral]

gotta stay positive

[deep sparrow]

son

[empty spindle]

yooooooo peak

[static coral]

good luck!

[lavish elm]

To all who got rejected there’s a reason it’s caLtech and not caWtech

[grave jacinth]

how many pepole get waitlisted? is it a soft reject or do they not waitlist a lot of people

[deep sparrow]

peopel are actually ready to kill fujimoto for that LOL

[static coral]

yessir, where are you thinking of going so far?

[proper fable]

u never know

[empty spindle]

wait imma bring this to gen chat lol

[static coral]

Yeah we should xd

[proper fable]

Wait yale likely??

Dont go to any other school bro

LMFAO

[prime crypt]

I ENJOY THE PEACE OF NOT KNOWING

[proper fable]

Just come here

You know where home is

[versed bobcat]

I got straight rejected

[frank arch]

GO TO YALE

[pseudo jay]

My friend has seen my good luck text but not responded I hope he isn’t dead

[prime crypt]

☺️

[proper fable]

I should meet with all the yale likelies at bdd

[karmic goblet]

insane to yall

[proper fable]

Get u coffee and convince u to come here

[solar sparrow]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1138554187605610553/1481166633736212513/attachment.gif

[versed bobcat]

one step closer to going to UTD I am not happy about this situation dawg

[glacial trout]

hey guys i got deferred and just got in

the dream never dies

[proper fable]

yay congrats

[tame sierra]

WOOO

CONGRATS

[versed bobcat]

nice man

[fleet goblet]

Congrats

[karmic goblet]

insane gg

[red light]

LETS GOOOO

[delicate canopy]

I got rejected 😇

[versed bobcat]

everyone else did too twin

[delicate canopy]

YES

YAYY

[orchid trail]

Anyone gonna drop stats

[versed bobcat]

like %accepted?

[peak lily]

accepted as international, main ecs are imo silver medalist and non trivial fellowship

[orchid trail]

where from

[stray scarab]

Silver medalist at an international oly?

[peak lily]

uhhh that would be a dox sorry but I go to an american school on visa that makes me count as international

it's not an underrepresented country

like

norway sweden netherlands type stuff

[vale canopy]

IMO SILVER IS CRACKED WTH

[stray scarab]

oh so silver medalist at a us Olympilad?

[orchid trail]

ok

[vale canopy]

CONGRATS

[peak lily]

no international

the international one

[stray scarab]

can sm link the poll

[vale canopy]

imo silver is so insane

[stray scarab]

damn

that's pretty crazy

no wonder u got on

in

[frank arch]

pinned

[peak lily]

ugh I didn't apply for aid though so I'm prolly going to oxford instead

[blazing vapor]

accepted domestic, mainly usapho camp and smithsonian astrophysics research!

[frank arch]

oxford is amazing 😭

[solar sparrow]

Way less caltech than last year huh

[versed bobcat]

rejected main ECs are started schools physics c program, published indie video games, piano w state level achievements

[frank arch]

which college?

[peak lily]

st johns

[cunning iron]

So like fujimoto is the reason why I got rejected istg

[versed bobcat]

not surprised at all

[orchid trail]

They not on discord

72 hrs

[broken shadow]

How did it go!

[solar sparrow]

There were like 30 last year my guy

[versed bobcat]

https://tenor.com/view/desert-dryland-drought-gif-8755066

[orchid trail]

yo it hasn’t been an hour

give it time

[solar sparrow]

It was instant last year

Skill issue of the highest order

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1138554187605610553/1481741591222943804/attachment.gif

[unique patrol]

what is caltech acceptance rate for RD

[warped cosmos]

Most have less this year

[solar sparrow]

Indeed

[red light]

< 3%

[orchid trail]

6.7

[versed bobcat]

<2%

[solar sparrow]

co2026 skill issue

[unique patrol]

damnnn

[haughty ferry]

daum 14% acceptance rate

[blazing vapor]

what is caltech acceptance rate for deferred ea?

[haughty ferry]

can i open a polymarket on wether i get accepted to mit lmao

[ornate loom]

rejected

isef winner btw

but whatever

im a broke intl

[haughty ferry]

💔

we going to mit

[ornate loom]

i feel like i might have a chance at yale cuz there were only 3 ppl from my country who got it

[eager ledge]

Sub 3%

[versed bobcat]

dawg I havent won anything im not getting in my local state uni

[frank arch]

idt prestigious awards are always necessary 😭

mine are along the lines of ap scholar, service learning diploma, districtwide contest 😭

[versed bobcat]

where accepted

[frank arch]

yale rea and amherst college likely

[versed bobcat]

??

[frank arch]

it really js depends

[versed bobcat]

on what

[frank arch]

your whole profile and context

[versed bobcat]

ah

[frank arch]

and how ur AO is feeling 😭

ig js dont count yourself out

‼️

[grizzled iron]

Never seen accepted spelled “we are unable to offer you a position in our freshman class”

Must be how they do it in California

[versed bobcat]

no limit to the larp

[red light]

LOL

[grizzled iron]

Avant garde spelling

I did research at Caltech and still didn’t get in so I’m cooked for mit and Stanford

So many boilers boutta be made

[orchid trail]

Over the summer?

[red light]

nuh uh

Ur not Cooke

Trust

[grizzled iron]

Partly so not entirely

[feral narwhal]

What kind

[grizzled iron]

Astronomy

[feral narwhal]

Cool

[grizzled iron]

We ALL getting into MIT dw

[obsidian ruin]

tyty!

[grave jacinth]

waitlisted or rejected?

[feral narwhal]

Hey if I dm can I see essays?

[young kindle]

almost late march

lets hope i am indeed Cooke

[balmy swift]

zammmmmm lavo

dw you got it for mit

[hard drift]

cllitech

[paper fog]

i got into caltech!

i dont even know how tf

[vale canopy]

congrats!!!

join the caltech discord server

its on the portal

[thorny tartan]

if you're accepted, does it have your admissions officer name in the portal?

[vale canopy]

it did for me

[hybrid imp]

Even caltech is yield protecting me that’s crazy

[thorny tartan]

What if you're rejected? Does it still have your admissions name and financial aid info?

[vale canopy]

idk

[thorny tartan]

TBD - waiting to open

[grizzled iron]

Reject

[orchid trail]

Probably not 🤭

[thorny tartan]

holy crap

omg

can anyone confirm

[rocky wave]

it has the dean of admissions on my rejection letter

no finaid that i see

[paper fog]

who got yielded?

[red lotus]

wait 5 ppl accepted is pretty big from here or somethign

[shell mantle]

Rejected man. I knew it but still had the slight glimpse of hope 🫂

[red light]

Browhat

[red light]

It is yes

[vagrant cape]

we stay strong!! all it takes is 1

[round summit]

Hah 3:32 it was I guess

I got in from defer. Yesss

[eternal charm]

congrats 🎊

also side note caltech’s campus is so quaint and dainty

[round summit]

Yes I went there and pet the turtles. Hung with water polo team. It’s a strange place serious learning!

[finite wagon]

cryin why is there lkike no acceptances here😭

[hidden timber]

theres like 5 bro

what u on

[paper fog]

im pissed abt cmu

they wasted my money

[vagrant cape]

who wants to be cloth anyway

[vagrant cape]

hooray! vote on the poll if u want

[warm night]

who?

[ornate loom]

me

but idc

[warm night]

brooo u got scammed

its fine ur gonna get in a top school

[round summit]

I got WL to CMU but into Caltech? Bro

[lavish elm]

😭

congrats on caltech tho !

that happened to my cousin last year for cs

except cmu was deferred -> waitlist

[thorny sparrow]

deferred waitlist has to be the most depressing thing ever

no closure at all

[lavish elm]

real

[finite wagon]

it's a very small number compared to what the other top college chanel threads get

[blazing vapor]

same here lmaoo

congrats on caltech

[grave jacinth]

wtf
who do they want then

[grave jacinth]

opposite lol

for me

[grizzled iron]

🤷‍♂️

[jolly osprey]

Well yea cause caltech has a small pool

[versed bobcat]

not me

[round summit]

Grats

[orchid trail]

What major

[round summit]

Computer engr. I had 1580 SS sat and ISEF grand award + wp nudge

[round summit]

Grats

[grave jacinth]

thank you

[grave jacinth]

had to have been essays bro but youre in caltech so it doesnt evne matter lol

[round summit]

Yes I’m grateful. Thought CMU would be easier though I heard CMU only brought in like 50 ppl from waitlist one year so they might be focusing on yield numbers

[eager ledge]

Uhh

I got wait listed not rejected lmao screw this

[bitter path]

bro

ik 2 ppl from india who got in

ahhhh this feeling is so cooked

shudve done some better oly

[grave jacinth]

idt cmu yield protects, my guess was it was just your essays that were better for caltech but not cmu

it's fine though, who cares you're into the best research school in the country

[real zenith]

Did they get LESS people in this year

[eager ledge]

245 people got in

[grave jacinth]

where are statistics for this year

[final grove]

prob gonna release later

think they accepted 400ish ppl tho

since the 250 number is how many end up attending

[final grove]

i think it depends they have a p low yield rate compared to other schools but it also depends on what school u apply they dont rlly take off wl either so u could be p cracked but theyll think u wont go

[grave jacinth]

nah man its just essays
good schools dont yield protect like that
it's not saying anything about his application quality (since he DID get into caltech so there's no doubt about that), he just didn't fit the criteria they were looking for

[final grove]

someone from my school p much swept last year

they didnt get emory or cmu

CMU yield is 30%

[quasi urchin]

like ivies? or did they not get in anywhere?

[final grove]

by swept i mean they got in p much everywhere

they didnt get into cmu or emory ppl said yield

i mean fit is one thing but i think CMU prob knows that they wouldnt have went anywyas

[warm night]

can't say for sure but this happens all the time one top school wants u and the other don't

also depends who reviews u that day

[final grove]

yea

def

every school also has diff priorities

they look for diff things

caltech is research heavy, princeton loves to see service/civic duty

[warm night]

princeton is like research and service

but yeah they have an entire essay on service

[final grove]

i dont think they care much if u dont have research

[warm night]

prolly depends on the major

[final grove]

maybe if u apply stem but ik a lot of ppl who got in for a stem major that had no research

[warm night]

princeton is a well renowned research institution

[eager ledge]

It says it on your wait-list or rejection letter

[final grove]

they admit roughly 400 ppl

caltech is p research heavy tho

[eager ledge]

Can't believe I got wait-listed lmao
Like y'all couldn't just LET me in or sumn

[final grove]

dw

what else do u have

[final grove]

i mean i wouldnt put caltec as a legit t10 so u should be fine

[warm night]

lmao dw theres MIT tmrw

[eager ledge]

A rejection from CMU lmfaoo

[final grove]

stats?

[eager ledge]

Fair enough

[final grove]

like its a p solid school

but i dont think u can put at the same level as any ivy

or some other top schools

[warm night]

i mean it fluctuates but in general it should be t10 level

[final grove]

i mean its jsut too small

its a nerdy school if u like that experience

[eager ledge]

1/365
1530 (800M)
95.3/100 average

[final grove]

crazy

what school did u apply to

yo i heard if u apply washu emory and cmu ur bound to get 1 of those 3

[eager ledge]

Caltech CMU etc etc

[final grove]

if ur a p cracked applicant

[final grove]

i meant school within cmu

[eager ledge]

Yeah my only downside is I low-key don't have any meaningful awards so

[warm night]

yeah i didnt apply lol

[eager ledge]

CS ☠️

[final grove]

my older brother got into caltech

he also got into uchicago penn and duke

[warm night]

damn

[final grove]

but caltech was his last choice after he visited the campus

[warm night]

where did he end up going

[final grove]

uchicago

[warm night]

isnt that where fun goes to die

[eager ledge]

What'd he major in?

[final grove]

i think he switched so hes doing something in quant

[warm night]

oh that makes sense then

[eager ledge]

Ahh
Yeah that makes sense

[main salmon]

Bro yield for Caltech is so low

[final grove]

its roughly 60%

which is decent

[main salmon]

I along with a lot of people who got in go to other places

[final grove]

caltech admits rlly nerdy kids and often those kids arent getting into other top schools

[main salmon]

Stanford the main one

[eager ledge]

Wait so only 60% actually attend Caltech?

[final grove]

yea thats prob the 40%

60% is crazy good bruh

columbia and penn r 65%

princeton is like 70%

[main salmon]

Harvard 80 so

[final grove]

caltech being a small school having 60% is p solid

yea but again ik sm1 last year who got caltech who just had a rlly bland essay

they showed me and said they had no clue

nth even crazy either

they had just good research that they spent 4 years doing

[main salmon]

If they got in they’re good bro

[eager ledge]

I think my MIT essays were pretty bland
I mean they don't give you enough to work with anyways so

[final grove]

i mean these r their words lmao

i think mit is just a diff level

like u acc gotta be the shi

[warm night]

just be quirky

[final grove]

in what ur doing

nah

i think like u gotta show how ur rlly passionate and cracked in what ur doing

like any1 who i see get into mit is just next level

compared to any other t10

[warm night]

my friend got in MIT he was super quirky

[main salmon]

Bro this is true of Caltech

[final grove]

its that one school u cant bs anything even the ecs

[warm night]

they look for olympiads and isef

[eager ledge]

I heard MIT favors Olympiad winners which is why I'm not really hoping for it too much

[final grove]

i disagree my brother even said caltech rlly reads ur research

[warm night]

yeah and ISEF grand award

[final grove]

they def do

[eager ledge]

Yeah

[final grove]

i think olys are the main priority but ik many get waitlisted

[final grove]

there like 5 bruh

[main salmon]

You submit a lot of it to actually be read yes

[final grove]

yo he said that caltech wasnt that good of a school

[eager ledge]

That kinda sucks lol
I mean it doesn't suck for those who actually took the time and effort for Olympiads

[final grove]

i can ask him more later

[warm night]

nah they accept HELLA isef kids

check linkedin 😭

[final grove]

yea but those kids usually have other stuff

yea again i think most ppl on linkedin are just flaunting lmao

[main salmon]

Your brother is rage baiting bro 🥀

[final grove]

i wouldnt get too carried away

[final grove]

no he def isnt

he has fun at uchicago

[eager ledge]

Yk I heard it was harder getting out of Caltech than getting in

[warm night]

prolly

[main salmon]

Ok fun ≠ good

[final grove]

i think

he knew a few kids that currently go

like he was firends with

and he said they arent having the best time

he also said same thing with JHU

[main salmon]

My friends at Caltech love it so

[final grove]

yea i mean it depends on the person

[main salmon]

Agree to disagree

It’s personal

[final grove]

any1 can like any school

[eager ledge]

Relative even

Zehaha

[final grove]

i just wouldnt put caltech as a legit t10

so dont get upset abt the rejection tbh

[eager ledge]

Yeah I'm not too upset about it
I mean it's crazy how little the class size is ☠️

[final grove]

yea they want a smaller class size

that's how it is

yea i mean

just hope for the best

ik so many ppl that only got caltech nth else

in the end u only need 1 school

[eager ledge]

Yeah it's about what you do at the school not the school itself ig

[red light]

Isef more than oly

[red light]

mit and Caltech admits tend to be about the same level

[red light]

Yo this is js not true 🙏😭😭😭

[red light]

I’ve heard that apparently the Caltech/stanford dual accept is p common

[pastel stag]

Interesting…

[red light]

That’s only anecdotal though and I don’t have any actual strong correlation

[pastel stag]

Yeah

[red light]

Congrats on Caltech twininem

[pastel stag]

Thank you!!

GL on Stanford!

[red light]

😔🙏

[pastel stag]

R u on the Caltech admit students discord?

[red light]

Yeah

[pastel stag]

Nice!

[warm night]

yeah even just isef finalists a lot of them get in mit

[red light]

Well mit is bigger ofc

[eternal charm]

shoulda applied to caltech then

[red light]

Like 5x bigger so you’ll see a greater sample size

I’m guessing the Caltech/mit and Caltech/stanford double acceptances r the most common

[devout violet]

yeah i think ive seen 4 stanford / caltech double acceptances so far

[red light]

Stanford PLEASE

🙏🙏🙏

[devout violet]

you will trust

it’s the best cali school fs

[red light]

u got stan right

[devout violet]

yes

[red light]

Congrats twin

[devout violet]

i shoulda tried for caltech

thank youu

[red light]

Wdym 😭

[devout violet]

i didnt apply to caltech

[red light]

Ohhhh ok

[devout violet]

i was debating bc i had room on capp but was too tired to do it

lol

[red light]

That’s how I felt about Harvard

And like any Ivy/t20 other than Stanford/mit after REA lmao

[devout violet]

so reall

[red light]

0 ivies applied 🙏😭

[devout violet]

• i think caltech had some extra requirements

& i didnt wanna do allat

[red light]

it had 7 essays

[devout violet]

yeah no

no thanks

[red light]

but like since I did Caltech 7 essays REA

I reused so many

[devout violet]

well u alr got caltech

[red light]

I feel like if you can reuse essays for diff prompt it’s a good essay

[devout violet]

same i reused the hell out of my essays

i had three with didferent anecdotes and js tweaked the end to fit the prompt

[red light]

Stanford roommate essay was brutal

[devout violet]

omg that was actually so fun

[red light]

Learning one was cool (similiar to Caltech) and I forget the other one

[devout violet]

i think it’s my favorite essay ove ever written

[red light]

What I can do for Stanford, that was also reused from Caltech

[devout violet]

omg i loved tje learninf one too

[red light]

I loved my 50 word ones tho

[devout violet]

i didnt like my diversity one tho

[red light]

seems like u fit right in LOL

[red light]

yk if they worked for Caltech they’ll work for Stanford… right?

[devout violet]

this is firee

[red light]

That was cooked so hard

[devout violet]

wait i loved my ec one

lemme find it

[red light]

This one was cool too

[devout violet]

nvm my data’s so ass rn

[red light]

I feel like the last two summer one is too wanking myself tho

[devout violet]

im very proud of them

[devout violet]

holy cracked

my past two summers one was kinda mid

[red light]

I like this

[red light]

Is it too much wanking

I talked about collecting bugs in my roommate one too

[devout violet]

ehhh

it’s fine

[devout violet]

yoo that’s cool

[devout violet]

bruh mine was so simple

[red light]

Okayokay so pretty similiar then haha

I didn’t wanna make mine list format idk why

[devout violet]

aw i love this

u seem like a rlly interesting lersoj

[red light]

Tysm

Hopefully the big S thinks that

[devout violet]

same i rewrote mine in multiple diff formats

[devout violet]

youll get in trust

[red light]

I got the counselor call astrology lmfao

[devout violet]

ooo yeah i remember

[gritty orbit]

real

[devout violet]

that’s a pretty good sign

[red light]

xd

[gritty orbit]

i was telling myself "im gonna apply to caltech stanford pton! im gonna apply to caltech stanford pton!"

[red light]

I don’t think my diversity essay focused enough on what I’d do at Stanford tho

[devout violet]

i remember some people early were talking bout getting confirmation calls

[red light]

I focused on my leadership stuff since I was at a military school

[gritty orbit]

then i got into college and just died over the break

[devout violet]

(they gor in)

[red light]

oop

My counselor got a call verifying my college credit transcript

ts too unbelievable ig

[pastel stag]

Holy shit ur cracked

[red light]

perchance

[gritty orbit]

whzat was it like?

my essays were ass i dont wanna even send snippets of them here ✌️

[red light]

130 something cc credits bro

😭🙏

[devout violet]

i think i only had like, one paragraph acorss all my essays saying what i wanted to do at stanford

[red light]

Ohhh okay

[pastel stag]

OMG

[gritty orbit]

i didnt share them with anyone even while writing them

[red light]

I’ll be fine then

[devout violet]

bro what

[gritty orbit]

nice

i dont have convenient de options near me 🙁

[devout violet]

same lolll

[red light]

+19 from this semester

[devout violet]

yeah i didnt let anyone read my stuff

hell yeah

[red light]

Unfortunate trade off no aps

[gritty orbit]

oh wait ur the one who had the mildly suspicious fly pfp

thank you for changing it

[pastel stag]

Ah that makes sense

[red light]

ts was a wasp 😭🙏

[gritty orbit]

yeah well it was Suspicious nonetheless.

it's suspicious when set as a pfp.

[pastel stag]

“Mildly suspicious fly pfp” is insane 🥀🥀🥀

[red light]

D!hh wasp

[pastel stag]

LMAOOO

[eternal charm]

other than the repeated sentence structure u probably good chance

[red light]

Wait wdym

Is the repeated sentence structure a bad thing

Is this essay tech

[pastel stag]

Mine has a similar sentence structure I think ur fine

They’re not gonna reject you over parallel structure

(It’s a rhetorical choice ✨)

[eternal charm]

I write a lot so it looks wrong to me but it’s probably fine

[red light]

I think I might go troll on chanceme after rd

[pastel stag]

LMAOOO

[eternal charm]

it’s like starting a paragraph with the same transition word on a lit essay

[red light]

Ohh I gochu

[gritty orbit]

i was also going to do this but then i got tired

[eternal charm]

if u use transition words

[red light]

Yeah I don’t like writing

[pastel stag]

that sub is toxic af

[red light]

Only academic writing

[gritty orbit]

and no the essay is fine idk what he is talking about

[red light]

Yeah that’s why it’s so funny

[eternal charm]

I inferred that from the caltech

turtle

[red light]

LOL

[pastel stag]

They’re all gna say you won’t get into Caltech

[red light]

yeah cuz Caltech is a bloodbath vro

“Predict my accepted colleges”

trust

[pastel stag]

I might post smth in r/college results at some point

But i don’t wanna accidentally dox myself

[red light]

lowkey anyone who can get Caltech RD is more cracked than Caltech REA

since REA 100% gives a boost, as confirmed by AOs and the CUC GC

[pastel stag]

IM NOT THO. I don’t even know what ISEF is. Our robotics team and science bowl sucks. The only cool thing I’ve done is the SIMR summer program (I submitted my research poster from that)

[red light]

I think it’s ~5% from REA and ~2% from RD to average to 3

[pastel stag]

LMAOOO they lied to us at WiSTEM

[red light]

STARs also helps if applicable + essays mog

[red light]

bro we asked the AO and they say applying REA is like a “green flag” or wtv

[pseudo jay]

Dyk AsianSage

[red light]

Yea

David

[pseudo jay]

Yea

Didn’t wanna dox but saying his online user probably did more damage LMAO

[red light]

CUC REA rate was 90% ish and RD rate was like 50% ish

[pseudo jay]

Did he not end up applying to Caltech

[pastel stag]

Yeah I do have great stats plus good SAT and national merit. And my teaches glazed me in my LOR (I think)

[red light]

I dunno

Ion think so

[pseudo jay]

I didn’t see a decision letter yesterday

[red light]

I don’t recall him applying

[pastel stag]

I got one from my robotics coach and she is really impressed with me. Cuz I do work hard for robotics even tho our teams suck.

[red light]

Niceee

I wrote about robotics on my learning essay for Stan and calt

[pastel stag]

Nice! The rabbit hole one? I just did relativity

But talked abt the muon experiment

[red light]

Talked about how I went from getting smoked In state qf to state champ

Speaking of, state starts today

[pastel stag]

That’s fire

[red light]

Gotta triple crown

[pastel stag]

Do you do FRC or Vex

[devout violet]

i js got rage baited so hard by stanny

[red light]

oooo

[red light]

Vex

[pastel stag]

LMAOOO

[pseudo jay]

@pastel stag What are your other top choices

[devout violet]

got an email saying there was an update to my finaid and i got so excited

[pastel stag]

USC, Berkeley, Santa Clara, Davis, and if I were to get in, Harvey Mudd and Stanford

[red light]

@thorny sparrow autons 🤗🥀

[red light]

Berkeley early is crazy bro

[pseudo jay]

When u get into Stanford

Grats on Cal

Is that regents or naw

[pastel stag]

I interviewed for regents, haven’t heard back yet

[pastel stag]

You prolly would too

[red light]

I didn’t get berk early

xd

[pastel stag]

That is a fire bot

[pseudo jay]

Good luck

[red light]

Thx

I think I’ll get rd tho

[pastel stag]

You def will

[red light]

But idk I have a gut feeling and those tend to be correct

[pastel stag]

I kinda get gut feelings too

For college answers

[red light]

That’s how I felt bout Caltech lol

[pastel stag]

Me too, tho I lowkey felt like I had no shot

[red light]

I was hella confident I’d get in which is lowkey ballsy asf

[pseudo jay]

If u don’t believe in urself don’t expect anybody else to

[red light]

Can I EC/Stat maxx my way into Berkeley/ucla

Real question

[pastel stag]

yes?

I had like 19 ECs

[red light]

My essays were okay not good not bad

[pastel stag]

most were environmental /humanities related not stem

[red light]

mine are p wide for stem but all spikes ig

[pseudo jay]

My PIQs were dog shit but we’ll never know if I got in or not

Crine son my list of acceptances is gonna be

Sacramento State

[red light]

I’ve gone to highest level for the 3 comps I main which hopefully good

[pseudo jay]

San Jose State

San Diego State

Cal Poly

And Stanford

[pastel stag]

LMAOOOO

[pseudo jay]

Cuz I withdrew everywhere else

[red light]

LOL

[pastel stag]

also I love you have Stanford as LSJU

[pseudo jay]

Thank u

[pastel stag]

We should call Caltech CIT 💀💀

[pseudo jay]

Is the d for deferral or denied

[pastel stag]

deferred (MIT EA)

[red light]

But you got the better school rd sooo

[pseudo jay]

Ooh good luck tomorrow

[red light]

Bro imma watch all my friends open 5 letters on ivy day and all I have is berk

[pseudo jay]

I think my friend’s best shot is Stanford after he got deferred MIT and rejected Caltech

[pseudo jay]

Ikr but I’m excited

[pastel stag]

If I get in I will turn them down right away so someone else can have my spot

[red light]

Same for Stanford but less so

[pastel stag]

Yeah

[red light]

Stanford vs Caltech bigger debate for me than Caltech vs mit

[pastel stag]

Yeah same

[red light]

But I lowkey wanna see if I can get into mit for the flex xd

[pastel stag]

You should!

[pseudo jay]

Only one school has me just fyi

[red light]

And aid ofc

[pseudo jay]

And it’s not the orange school in Pasadena

[pastel stag]

LMAOO

[red light]

the red in Palo Alto

[pastel stag]

“If I had a nickel for every orange school with a beaver mascot I got into I’d have 2 nickels which is weird cuz it happened twice” (the other one was Oregon state)

[red light]

Bernoulli or Tim

In theory Bernoulli is the superior beaver

In body mass, dam size, and combat ability

[pseudo jay]

Is Caltech’s mascot really named Bernoulli

[red light]

Yes

[pastel stag]

that’s his name???

I love that

[red light]

Yes

[pastel stag]

Tim is MIT ??

[pseudo jay]

Oh Bernoulli the Beaver I can see that

[red light]

Yea

[pastel stag]

It’s beautiful 🤩 🤩🤩🤩

[pseudo jay]

Who is the top

[red light]

[pastel stag]

They’re both vers

[pseudo jay]

Or is Caltech the CUCk

Iykyk

[pastel stag]

LMAOOOOO

[pseudo jay]

Crine son

There are some

Not very wise ppl at MIT is all I’ll say

[red light]

Oh!

I’ve received intel that there are also an overwhelming amount of huzz accepted to Caltech this year aswell ig

[pseudo jay]

Lowkey verifiably correct

The Stanford 30 pages though

https://tenor.com/view/john-wall-phew-lebron-james-nba-nj15-gif-413835056401224939

[vagrant cape]

this is not fair

where are the georgetown rea baddies

[red light]

[pseudo jay]

Crine son Georgetown was the first school I withdrew from

Cuz fah no I’m not doing an interview

[vagrant cape]

😭 😭

You do realize the rest of us had to do one for Stanford

and also jobs

[pseudo jay]

I didn’t have a Stanford interview cuz QB

It’s not that I didn’t want to do an interview I didn’t want to do a Georgetown interview

[vagrant cape]

exactly

[vagrant cape]

Mine was way better than my Stanford one lol

[grave jacinth]

Didn’t say anything about numbers for me

My letter

[visual berry]

bro 3 ppl got in from my school

[grave jacinth]

holy

[visual berry]

we’re not even a prep school

[grave jacinth]

genuinley 1% of the calss

class

putting it that way is actually isnane

did you get in?

[visual berry]

no i didn’t apply

[grave jacinth]

oh ok

[visual berry]

was too lazy and also no way i was getting in

[grave jacinth]

lmao

i didnt do research and got waitlisted

spent a lot of time on my essays though

im basically a guinea pig for all my junior friends lmao

[visual berry]

all my freshman friends were my guinea pigs

[thorny sparrow]

Oh wait these are lowk fairly good ngl

[red light]

Dang

[thorny sparrow]

Lowk the solo one is cookery

even a lot of r2 teams don't got it

[vale canopy]

WHAT

how many ppl in the class

[visual berry]

uhh

i think 900?

[red light]

@thorny sparrow we won state

[pastel stag]

I’m the only person whose gotten into Caltech from my school in like at least 10 years or so (unless my ex or someone else also got in)

according to my counselor

[pastel stag]

What state? Is it as competitive as CA

[thorny sparrow]

Ayy gg

[thorny sparrow]

Hell nah bro NM is light asf ngl 😭

[thorny sparrow]

what was ur skills score?

and did u triple crown

[thorny sparrow]

gang ur lowk cracked with caltech and mit

[red light]

hfuck no

[red light]

Double crown

Skills second

Coder sold skills LOL

We didn’t rlly have auton

[pastel stag]

Still impressive

[red light]

This is why admissions is region based LOL

[pastel stag]

Aww thx. I only have like 2 STEM ECs so I’m kinda suprised. And no stem awards. I think my essays/LORs carried

[pastel stag]

Still, you’re 1000% qualifies

Also winning states with no auton is insane

(Our auton sucks btw)

[red light]

Yeah but more bc of the science bowl and isef stuff

[red light]

We had auton wdym

55885x during elims is so generationally locked in

[pastel stag]

You said you didn’t really have auton

[red light]

For skills

Not match

[pastel stag]

Ohhhh

yeah makes more sense

[red light]

Our match auton was locked in

Bc skills isn’t wq but tc is

[pastel stag]

LOL our match auton sucks. Also we lack sensors (and experience)

like how tf do they make them so precise

[red light]

Dunno but match auton easier lol

[pastel stag]

Yeah deffo

also holy shit the amount of pneumatics tubing/pistons you have is impressive

[thorny sparrow]

Ah rip

[red light]

Rlly?

It’s is 4 pistons lol

[pastel stag]

Oh. I couldn’t tell

our team didn’t get pneumatics till last year so yeahhhh

Then our air pump went missing

[undone aspen]

CMU Pittsburgh or CMU Qatar ?

[fleet goblet]

Pittsburgh

I was the only one who applied

[undone aspen]

????????

But

the Pittsburgh campus doesn't give any aid or scholarships to Internationals ?

[fleet goblet]

Oh im a citizen

Ive lived in morocco basically my whole life though

[undone aspen]

So you're a sough-after candidate

It helps a lot since some colleges want to get that diversity criteria checked without going beyond the 15% max for internationals

Maybe you'll get Columbia

[fleet goblet]

Didnt apply there

[fleet goblet]

Thats what i was lwk hoping for but it doesnt seem to be helping

[undone aspen]

Nahhhh

btw

Which kind of high school are you in ?

Moroccan ? French ? IB ?

[fleet goblet]

French cuz my mom teaches there

So i go for free

[undone aspen]

Cool.

Quelle ville ?

Moi chui de Casa

[fleet goblet]

Rabat

[undone aspen]

Descartes I guess ?

[fleet goblet]

Nope and ion rly feel like saying it on this server its lwk a dox

Dms if u want

[undone aspen]

I understand. No problem.

[fierce prawn]

https://tenor.com/view/sheldon-gif-14823713111194600775

[warped cosmos]

https://www.caltech.edu/about/news/caltech-offers-admission-to-the-incoming-class-of-2030

[pastel stag]

Bro why is this thread dead

Are there any current Caltech students in here btw?

[dense heart]

yeah almost nobody got in lmfao

[dense heart]

luca

or smth

[pastel stag]

Oh yeahhhhh

Bro might commit to Stanford instead tho

[thorny sparrow]

Because it's over lol, admitted students would just talk in the co'30 discord opposed to here

[warped cosmos]

tell them to come back!

they can verify and get access to jobless and adulting and grad apps and verified village channels too!

[silk bronze]

how do I get verified btw?

[warped cosmos]

Use the !verify command in #🤖-bot-commands for info