| In my opinion, such a field-specific school as Caltech should only be pursued by the most dedicated students to science and engineering; a student who isn't completely dedicated to those fields shouldn't matriculate at such a school. Also I would point out that the student bodies at the two schools are vastly different - in terms of social scene, campus life, number of undergraduates, etc.
However, if your daughter has gotten into Caltech and Yale already then I assume Caltech was EA and she got a likely letter from Yale? If that's the case then she'll definitely have more acceptances coming her way in a couple weeks so wait for everything to come in before making a decision! |