google2008

that list of what grad/professional schools listed on the first page is REALLY helpful

but I was wondering, which ones are the grad and which ones are the professional? If Caltech doesn't acutally split up the list, does any of the Caltech students on CC know??? but what they hear around campus and stuff?

google2008

oh and there are 41 people going to jobs and like 120 in grad/professional schools....what happened to the rest of the class? I thought Caltech class is like 200+

RacinReaver

They didn't respond to the survey.

Antiquark

With the exception of the ones that explicitly say "School of Business," "School of Medicine," or "Law," it can probably be safely assumed that nearly all of them are for grad school. Caltech probably has more students going to grad school (especially PhD programs) than any other school.

google2008

so only 5 people got into med schools wow

I just thought that people who graduated from caltech undergrad wouldn't end up at like BU and ughh Case Western for grad school. Not to say that those are not decent schools, but they are not quite up to the grad level or caltech.

Antiquark

Well, probably not very many more than five people apply to med school each year from Caltech, so that low number is not surprising, not that Caltech is a great place for most premeds.

By the way, that list is where people went not where they got in. People choose grad schools off of more than overall prestige. Location matters to a lot of people (notice the huge bias towards California grad schools.) Often, people will choose a smaller or less prestigious grad program because they got a special scholarship there and it's a lot cheaper or they're going there to work with a specific person. I think you will find that every single undergraduate school, no matter how prestigious, sends people to places like BU and Case Western (which might have prestigious programs in that persons' subfield of choice.) Generally, Techers with an average GPA and good research can still get into very good grad schools in their field. From many other schools, not only are you expected to have a significantly higher GPA but it's also much harder to find good research opportunities.

RacinReaver

Yeah, there's nothing wrong with going to a school that's lower ranked for the right reasons. I was willing to take a hit of over ten places in the rankings to come work for a professor here at Caltech, after all. =p

davida1

Caltech is incredibly overrated in terms of jobs/professional school placement. If you want to get a PhD in science/engineering at teach at a Portland State U, Caltech is a good choice. But for medicine, law, financial services, management consulting, etc. you are better off turning it down for someplace like Penn, Duke, or Brown and even Georgetown.