Chance at Caltech?

<p>More olympiads or research. You can’t do anything now, anyways. However, without those you won’t stand out. Even qualifying for the USAMO two, three, or four times possibly won’t make you stand out. You have solid everything. But unless you have olympiad success or research success, then you are far from guaranteed to get in.</p>

<p>Also allow me to also link an excellent post by gibby from a Harvard thread: <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/14957719-post5.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/14957719-post5.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>Your “character” is very important. I almost replied with some version of gibby’s post in this thread, but retrospectively I could never have expressed my thoughts as well as gibby did.</p>

<p>Anyways, I disagree with the line “ECs do not tip the scale one way or the other.” They definitely do. Yours are pretty good, but not amazing.</p>