<p>Increasingly I’m starting to think that the only way I’m going to pay for all this is to abandon Caltech and find a black jack team at MIT.</p>
<p>@ jsd:</p>
<p>Being a professional lab rat is an interesting idea I hadn’t considered before.</p>
<p>@Crazy mom:</p>
<p>I don’t have the luxury of a need gap that scholarship foundations would recognize, but thanks to the total absence of grants from Caltech, at least I don’t have diminishing returns on outside scholarships. I’m starting to think that Caltech doesn’t really want me (and also my PFW host said that he picked me because I was the absolute last unpicked prefrosh left…)</p>
<p>Anyway, thanks for the information. I highly doubt that a few more liberal arts type AP’s can make a difference to any application after hearing everyone, so at least I’m deciding on one thing! I’ve conceded that I won’t have a shot at getting anything until after sophomore year.</p>