Have I got a chance??? :)

About_Time
Mon, 30 Apr 2007 22:44:46 +0000

Caltech admissions policy would conform to your defintion of ‘qualified student’. Caltech of all upper tier univerisities adheres to a rigorous admissions policy which relies almost exclusively on standardized tests, grades and rank in class.

African-Americans are notably absent at Caltech.

The Century Foundation found that three percent of freshmen at highly selective colleges came from the bottom socioeconomic quartile, compared to 74 percent from the top quartile.

Consquently, several of the upper tier schools are now working to admit a larger percentage of low-income students.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder/Adcom and I think females are very attractive to Columbia SEAS … just my opinion but hang around Columbia very long and you do recognize a strong attempt to be diverse in admissions which is very unlike Caltech.

And during the transition period from all male institutions to coed institutions obviously there was a female admission rate which translated into a zero sum end game for male applicants.

Admissions is by its very nature a zero sum process.