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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Does any9one have recent experience with Caltech?  It seems super small and would have fewer opportunities than MIT for a kid that could get accepted to that kind of place[/quote]

I’m the MIT PP from page one and I had a good friend from caltech in college (she was doing her master’s at MIT while I was an undergrad).  They’re both excellent schools but have a bit of a different vibe.  Caltech is much smaller and more intimate; I got the impression students tend to know a good percentage of their class, there are school wide things that most people participate in, etc.  Kind of like a small liberal arts college (although coursework wise lol).  MIT is much more a big universities where students need to find their own groups and intro classes have 100s of students.  I definitely was much happier at MIT (I was absolutely wild to try on my newfound adulthood and independence) but my friend who’d had a rough time as a teen definitely made a better choice for her going to caltech.  As with CMU or Cornell, you’ll get an excellent education and lots of opportunities at either, it’s more a question of which school will suit the student’s personality and what opportunities they want.[/quote]

Thanks for the helpful info.  My husband went to MIT (and is partial to it), but I have a DD interested in Caltech.  She is very into CS but also has interests in Econ / public policy etc.  It’s obviously super hard to get into any of these schools, but we are also trying to understand how well the schools will allow her to develop her interest with the intersection of CS and other areas.  CA seems far to me…. But she likes it [/quote]

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