| Quotes from the article in The California Tech, 5/12/08:
"For the third year in a row, Caltech admissions bumped the “ratio” up a notch, marking the 40% women class of 2012 as the most feminine in its history....This year is also the first that the female yield matched the men’s at 35%."
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"As of Friday, 236 students had accepted admission to Caltech, just six above the target of 230.
However, Bischoff expects that number to drop by at least 8 students as the Ivy Leagues dig deeply into their waiting lists, prompting Caltech to follow suit.
“We may melt more than normal,”
said Bischoff. “We’ve started making offers to some students on the wait list.”
"Harvard will take some 150 to 175 students off of its waiting
list, and Princeton and UPenn will each take up to 90, according to a NY Times article last week. Though Caltech doesn’t share a large overlap with Harvard or Princeton, their waiting lists will likely pull students from MIT and Stanford, bigger competitors to Caltech." |