People at Caltech v Stanford

Vesh
Mon, 03 Sep 2007 22:02:54 +0000

I’m assuming you’re talking about the GHP program in Georgia (b/c I went a couple of years ago). If that is the case, I had a very similar experience. Most of my friends were not science either (6/9 weren’t), but this is mainly because this is the group with which I happened to eat lunch on the first day. The thing is, personality doesn’t necessarily correlate to academic interests: there are a lot of cool science majors and a lot of ■■■■■-ish humanities majors (and vis-versa).
Regardless, you will find cool people at either school, and you’ll probably have the same “quality” of inner circle friends. The biggest difference, at least socially, is the fact that Caltech has ~850 students, while Stanford has ~6400 students. This results in a pretty significant difference in atmosphere and should be a bigger factor IMHO than major distribution.

P.S. We could always do with more GHP’ers at Caltech. :)