CalTech Graduate Admission Questions.

tech_fan
Wed, 16 Mar 2005 04:54:03 +0000

Graduate admissions are done by department — the professors in the department pick the graduate students. I honestly have no idea how the EE process works – what GPA they look for, how they look at recs, etc. Perhaps someone in engineering can share some of what they’ve learned by osmosis.

As for the Caltech rigor, it certainly is a part of studying anything but I think that most graduate students have ht emotivation and so forth that it’s not a question whether they can graduate or not if thye work at it (though there are exceptions). There is certainly more grumbling about the workload among undergrads.

The grad students I know are mostly from top foreign universities (IIT, etc.), top American schools (MIT, Berkeley, etc.), and good schools lower on the ladder. Roughly in that order. I have met very impressive students who didn’t go anywhere fancy as undergrads, so I don’t think the undergraduate institution is that big of a deal if you’re a good student.

Hopefully someone from engineering can give more specific answers relating to the questions you ask.