<p>I’m certainly fond of anecdotal evidence about subjective matters like “what’s it like to apply to grad school from Caltech?” Indeed, it’s often the only information out there about questions like that, so yes, I’ll include all I can in my posts.</p>
<p>This is different. The world doesn’t present a lot of straightforward yes/no questions, but in this case it did. The people who replied with things like “Caltech’s not accredited, but my friends X, Y, and Z say it’s not a problem because…” were trying to help but in actually just adding to the confusion and disinformation floating around. Since we’d already established that Caltech ChemE majors aren’t always clear on the accreditation status of their program (because some of them apparently think, incorrectly, that it’s not accredited), and the underlying question had been answered several times with hard evidence, I worried that a post that in essence said “I’ll go ask yet another group of ChemE students what they’ve heard” was likely to come back with another mixed/uncertain answer to a pretty straightforward yes/no question. Further, if someone’s got the basic yes/no question demonstrably wrong, it kind of casts doubt on any additional information on the subject they’ve provided, at least for me.</p>
<p>If the “scoop” you were referring to getting wasn’t actually going to contain an answer to the accreditation question but actually just be some first hand info on ChemE careers or graduate admissions, then I apologize for preemptively posting the link to the ABET site. I just assumed by your post’s proximity to the several posts above that it was in the same line of thought as they were (i.e. trying to answer primarily the accreditation question anecdotally), particularly the other posts of the “I’ve heard ChemE Major X say they’re not accredited” variety. I understand your confusion if you didn’t intend to do that and if not, I’m sorry I jumped on your post.</p>
<p>I just wanted to gainsay in advance any more posts claiming some uncertainty about the accreditation.</p>