<p>Hello I’m back. Now I’m aware that I don’t have much chance at Caltech. One other question: if I don’t get in this year and reapply next year, will my chance be hurt by the fact that I was once rejected?</p>
<p>If not, I’m going to apply anyway. I REALLY want to go to Caltech, and like some of you had said, I have nothing to lose but the application fee. </p>
<p>I have brought this up before, but I’m going to ask again. One of the most important academicwise things that happened in my academic career in US is that I placed first in the chemistry olympiad local section.it’s not even state level, they go like local section(regional)-national exam-camp-international. but then I couldn’t move on to the national level because of citizenship restriction. the guy who placed first in our region last year(his score was actually a bit lower than mine) went to national, made it to the camp, and placed sixth there, missing the international rep team by 2 spots.
So I could have gotten sometihng PRETTY big out of this, but I ended up with a regional level award. I asked how I should deal with this on my application and someone told me not to make a big deal of this, just state the fact that I couldn’t move on. Is that the best way I can represent this achievement on my app? I mean, I’m real proud of it and want them to know that I have the potential to go farther than regional…
Thanks.</p>