<p>A lot of students I know had the exact same decision to make senior year.</p>
<p>It really depends on what you want out of a university. If you consider famous varsity sports programs and large parties every week essential, you’re probably better off at Stanford. </p>
<p>Caltech’s courses are much harder than the ones at Stanford. I took Stanford courses in high school, and they were a joke compared to similar ones at Caltech.</p>
<p>When you say that Caltech doesn’t have much to offer besides math and science, what exactly are you looking at/interested in? Besides the afore-mentioned partying and famous varsity sports, I’m not sure where else Stanford has something that’s entirely absent from Caltech.</p>