Cal Tech - anyone know a student who got in?

[Anonymous]

With Caltech, be very judicious about whether you are applying REA. Historically, at our school, the top applicants are deferred and denied, while the students in the next tier are accepted. We realized that top applicants, when accepted, tend to decline Caltech. This had been the case for many decades before Covid and its REA policy. So, they plainly decline the student at the top of the HS chain.

[Anonymous]

One of dd's classmates, wanted MIT (didn't get in) seriously considered CalTech option but ended up elsewhere. Awesome kid, not valedictorian but top 10% at a decently strong public. Not an athlete. Kind of kid who ran cool science experiments in his garage. Also very accomplished in music.

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Anonymous wrote:I only know of athletic recruits. The class is small, so a good percentage of students are athletes. They don’t really lower academic standards for athletes, but the needed ability isn’t that high - some accepted didn’t even make varsity at their high school.

That’s totally dependent on the sport. Men’s soccer, for instance, has a new coach who is ambitious. They are recruiting mls next level players. I know an athletic recruit that is going there next year. 800 sat math, 4.0; ap calculus in 8h grade, math competitions, research with two professors at a relatively prestigious state university, name on published paper, 3 different ap physics classes, etc.

Probably…their basketball team hasn’t won a game in years and their baseball team’s 10 wins (and 30 losses) matched their record high number from the late 1960s.

For baseball, coach said nearly 1/2 of each class’s players are walk-ons. They get accepted on their own and then play. All played before and many are decent…this isn’t randoms getting to play.

Doing the math - the total count is about 1000 (google search not exact). Given 16(both Men and Women counted separately) varsity sports - Doesn't that mean the number of athletes are greater than the non-athletes?

Caltech is really a jock school masquerading as an elite tech school.

Brilliant analysis! Not flawed at all. You only have to be on campus for five minutes to realize it’s totally a jock school. Which means it cannot be an elite tech school.

So you saw it too? 1000 sleeper builds. Not sure if they are all natty.