<p>If I was an highly gregarious engineering type (I am the first adjective, but not the second), I would pick a school like HMC, Stanford, or Berkeley over CalTech.
The CalTech students put up no fronts, and admit outright that the workload of their school seemingly disregards the value of sleep or a social life or anything that is not purely academic in the math & science realm. This, of course, helps create a group of highly focused, brilliant math scholars and engineers, but it’s not for everyone…</p>