<p>I guess I’ll weight in here as well. Just to get this out of the way, I have no problem whatsoever with drinking and I wasn’t in the house that’s known for drinking, so I’m not really going to talk about that.</p>
<p>I hated PFW. Caltech was my absolute top choice before going, and now I have no interest in attending. My house was possibly the worst possible fit for me, and my host was a jerk. My main impression of the house system was that it got a lot of people pretending to be something that they are not in order to fit in with the house culture. I talked to a few people who genuinely liked what they were studying, but I talked to way more people who were doing something that they don’t like just because it was easy enough for them to handle (I think Caltech kills off many people’s love of physics and math). The classes I sat in on seemed no different than a class you could take at any other university, except with fewer people (who rarely interacted with the professors, so class size did not really do anything). The campus was ugly and most the people were either arrogant or to awkward to talk to. I met some nice people, but not enough to dispel my impression that Caltech is full of pretty antisocial people. Overall, prefrosh weekend was disapointing.
edit-used a bit more polite terms</p>