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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Caltech is the only school environment I can easily declare is completely miserable. There’s nothing fun going on at Caltech. It’s just an environment for people obsessed with STEM. Best for the introverted science kid who wants to go to aspires most to get a PhD/be a leader in STEM. [/quote]

So just like Sheldon Cooper? (Isn’t that where the character from “Young Sheldon” went to grad school and became a professor?)[/quote]

If you want to know what the social life at Caltech is like, watch the 80s movie Real Genius. It was based on Caltech and is disturbingly accurate.

There's lots of fun going on, but it won't appeal to everyone. [/quote]

This.  Caltech is for kids who would find MIT too easy and be bored.
Dead serious.
It's a special place. ~1/1500 undergrads wins a Nobel Prize later. That is like 10x the rate of the next highest school. It is super intense and a hot house as no other nearby schools. But there are some for whom this is absolutely the right place. If a kid lives for math Olympiads, quantum physics, or writing their own LLMs to derive the math, and finds doing reckless science experiments their version of blowing off steam on the weekends, they will love it.  Though the gender ratio makes things weirder than they need to be.

If this description does not appeal to a kid, odds are it is not the right place. Which is FINE.  Good luck.

Signed Caltech grad alum, so no direct UG experience but saw a lot first hand.[/quote]
*For kids who would find the standard MIT degree requirements too easy

MIT has a lot of flexibility to take graduate classes, etc.

Also, the gender ratio at caltech is 50/50[/quote]

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