| "I thought Caltech gave admission to about 650 kids. Are you saying that only ~210 are actually accepting/going to Caltech? That's a very poor yield.
Then I think they will have room for all of us."
if you look at the previous year statistics, you'll see that only one third of admitted people enroll. they aim for a 225 students class, so they admit 675 people. it's a pretty basic math. the problem is that most of the people that get admitted to caltech, the 675 finest, get admitted to MIT, Harvard, Princeton, whatever, and choose those schools over caltech, because of it's bigger student body and diversity.. some even because of the fact that it's on the east coast. mostly people choose MIT and Stanford over caltech, if you look at the statistics.. it doesn't mean caltech isn't as equally good or even better in science than those colleges, it more means that most of the people don't find themselves in caltech rigorous core and 99% science orientation. |