<p>Over and over on posts of Caltech acceptees and Axline Scholars, I see awards for reasearch or just research. Ok, so some people’s high schools offer easy ways to get to do research, but mine doens’t. How do people without high school research programs get to do research?</p>
<p>Also, what non axline scholarships are availible at Caltech and where can I find info on them?</p>
<p>Also, what is the meaning of life?</p>
<p>42 silly, your other questions don’t matter</p>
<p>No…you don’t matter for messing it up-
The answer to life the universe and everything=42
The meaning of life doesn’t come up on google calculator, and therefor doesn’t exist.</p>
<p>Actually, 42 isn’t the exact meaning of life/the universe, it’s a rough approximation; a physicist did that calculation and unfortunately assumed that pi=3 to make the calculation easier.</p>
<p>The true meaning of life is:</p>
<p>42 * sqrt( sqrt( pi / 3 ) )</p>
<p>Congratulations, that just became my google talk status message.</p>
<p>It’s funny how nobody answered your original question.</p>
<p>Funny in a someone better answer it or I’ll scream kinda way. Though I’m not sure how threatened that should make you…I don’t have a mic.</p>
<p>For real though, any thoughts from anyone?</p>
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The easiest way is if you have a local university nearby. Many people simply email professors during the year for work over the summer. I suppose it doesn’t have to be a local university; it just makes it much more convenient. I don’t think many people who do “research” do it at a high school as for most fields you just don’t have the proper equipment or personnel to do so. Does that make sense?</p>
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Well, during admissions only Axline and President’s scholarships are given out. The latter is given to minorities (not Asian) for recruitment, and you know about the former. Caltech does provide merit money to some returning students via Upper Class Merit Awards (see <a href=“http://www.finaid.caltech.edu/UpperClassMeritAwardMarch2006.html)%5B/url%5D”>http://www.finaid.caltech.edu/UpperClassMeritAwardMarch2006.html)</a>, where they give something like 50-60 students each year (returning sophomores, juniors, seniors so like ~5-10 percent of the returning students) anywhere from 3/4 tuition to full tution, room/board, fees, etc… It’s one of those things that it’s nice to get if you do get it, but it probably isn’t a safe thing to count on if you need the money.</p>
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I typed out this 10 page long explantion with numbered steps for achieving happiness, but stupid CC deleted my message. Anyway, I’m sure you can just wing it.</p>
<p>I’m Jewish, so I’m guessing that’ll qualify me as a minority. What other criteria do they look for in a president’s scholarship recepient? While I sure can’t knock it since it sounds like it’ll work for me, I think that kind of thing is nothing but descrimination in reverse. The only way not to be racist is to only consider race where it matters- during the Daytona 500</p>
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Er sorry, I didn’t mean to imply this was the case. President’s scholarships definitely don’t go to while people. I am not sure of the exact categories but I’m guessing along the lines of Blacks, Latinos, Native Americans, and possibly Pacific Islanders. </p>
<p>I am not sure what other criteria they look for in Presidential Scholars. </p>
<p>Also, I don’t want to get in a whole big argument that could easily ensue here, but I think Caltech deals with race in admissions pretty well considering the complexity of the issues involved. They don’t use affirmative action in rewarding admissions which is probably good considering the academic level you have to be at right when you get here. Because of that, though, Caltech admits porportionately few URMs (compared to population or other schools), and so I see little problem in trying to make sure every single qualified URM applicant comes here. Indeed, Caltech would have a very hard time without this because it lacks the “critical mass” of URM student populations that make the campus comfortable enough to attract other URMs. </p>
<p>Hence, the Presidential scholarship is not some strange tool of paying back past atrocities, but rather it’s a diversity increasing tool. And really, it achieves that without sacrificing much at all for other students, so I fail to see a problem with it.</p>
<p>This argumentative post was delete in accordance with cghen’s wishes.</p>
<p>Also, I just heard of lingle? Meh?</p>
<p>The lingle is a super-Axline: it covers full tuition, room/board, etc… </p>
<p>I didn’t delineate it because it’s basically an Axline on steriods and presumably given out to Axline quality students who use steriods (kidding…in case that wasn’t obvious). I think they give out 1-2 a year, and they’re only for the top, top, top applicants.</p>
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<p>They used to go to some female students (of any race); then again, female prefrosh used to get free plane tickets, too, and that’s apparently stopped.</p>
<p>I’m not sure whether this still exists, but Vernier used to have an annual contest for the most creative use of their classroom lab kits. A guy I know won a couple of years ago for modifying their gas pressure sensor and writing a new program to measure the relation between the length of a thread and the amount of tension required to break the thread.</p>
<p>At prefrosh, one of the other moms told me her daughter got free plane tickets, so the free tickets haven’t been totally eliminated. I’ve no idea how they are given out, though.</p>
<p>Hmm. Maybe that’s tied to scholarships.</p>
<p>Perhaps it is related to need.</p>
<p>Ah… that would make sense. (All my experience here is through my sister–I think she said getting free transportation was related to either gender or her scholarship, but need would also make sense. I think at one point Caltech spontaneously decided to give us more money when my mom tried to point out that they were giving us too much… :))</p>
<p>Caltech used to give plane tickets to all women who were accepted. Now they’re only given to students who win scholarships or have financial need.</p>