We heard that from a fairly reliable source at Caltech due to the housing crisis from last year, they have enrolled only close to 150 or so ( not sure of the number), but their acceptance rate this year was 1%.
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I doubt they only admitted 170. The stack of acceptance letters they posted on insta was pretty large.
Questbridge acceptances dropped from 35 to 25 this year, so I’ve been wondering if the total number of offers would drop by a similar percentage. They published general stats for the cycle last year during the last week in March, so perhaps there will be a similar press release in a couple weeks.
Anyway, I’m even more grateful for my son’s acceptance REA.
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daughter was accepted RD, just want to contribute a data point to the portal astrology: the banner was there all the way till the decision came out.
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I second this portal astrology data point. Son was accepted Caltech RD (also received likely letters from Yale and Columbia Engineering). The banner was there all the way till the decision came out.
Hello, may I ask what was the decision with MIT?
Rejected!
Does anyone have prior experience with DiscoTech? what happens and what do you recommend doing there?
I am hunting down the same information. Is there a separate agenda for parents? I will circle back if I find out something.
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There is a separate agenda for parents. REA students had a meeting in December about DiscoTech. Caltech posted tentative schedules for both students and parents. Parents will have more down time while the students sleep in the dorms as guests of current students, meet with departments and go through what looks like a mini-rotation through the houses.
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For the benefit of future applicants, here is a story that may be of interest:
It seems that the admissions and financial aid are reviewed by faculty within a single committee. I had expected these would be completely separate given their need-blind status.
Caltech is need aware for internationals. But for domestic students, I’m pretty sure it’s completely need blind. Based on what I’ve seen, they don’t start reviewing financial aid until after students get accepted.
Since there is a single committee for this work I fully expect that they have a budget for aid to consider while they decide on admits. I would say that they are most likely need aware in general.
Except they didn’t ask anything about our fins until after REA announced. There is no way they knew our need or lack of need until we filed out CSs/Fafsa.
Most people I know only sent in their CSS after they got accepted. The admissions officers also confirm that it is need blind, so I’m not sure what the committee statement means.