Placing out of classes at Caltech

aunt_bea
Wed, 14 Jan 2015 07:18:25 +0000

@gsckmom, the students at Caltech begin with a clean slate. I agree with all of the above; the AP classes were just fluff classes and none of the credits count towards anything.

At the parent information sessions, we were told to prepare our students for the use of tutors. Apparently, these students have all been tutors at one time but, at Caltech, they will not feel comfortable being tutored or being on the receiving end of help.

So, your son or daughter is not even accepted yet and you want him/her to skip classes? Wow, you’re really confident. We didn’t even know that our son had been accepted until we started hearing from his classmates’ parents. Cal tech is very quirky about how they admit students, its not just about high test scores and high GPA’s. The whole application has to fit what the school is trying to build in a freshman class.