CalTech Graduate Admission Questions.

Interflux
Fri, 26 Apr 2013 02:19:35 +0000

Not aware of any statistics myself, either; among the students I personally know about the most popular schools were MIT (plurality), Berkeley, Stanford, Harvard, Princeton, UCLA, and CMU. Most of the CS majors I knew went straight into industry but of the ones that decided to pursue a Ph.D., two went to Stanford, two went to CMU, and one went to U. Mich.

I generally wouldn’t recommend Caltech for pre-meds but of the few that I know (not all from the same class):

UCSD (at least a few) [part of the Medical Scholars program]
Harvard (3)
Stanford (1)
Vanderbilt (1)

I also knew of five undergraduates that stayed at Caltech (again, not all from the same class). Two of them were of the type mentioned by RacinReaver - they didn’t do as well as they’d hoped in graduate school admissions but were able to get into Caltech due to their positive reputations among their professors. The other three had admissions offers from other top-5 schools and decided on Caltech in the end.