What are my chances RD now that EA is up?

Colleges & Universities California Institute of Technology
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<p>So…I got deferred EA, which I guess was understandable, to be honest I’d been working on the Siemens comp since July every spare moment of my time so everything I did during that time period (start of school until start of December) has been pretty poor, apparently including my college app. I spent as much time as i could on it, but I guess it wasn’t enough. Anyway, here are my stats if anyone knows how good my chances are, just holler</p>

<p>Stats:
SAT: 1430 800 Math, 730 Verbal
SAT IIs: 800 Math IIc, 780 Chem
GPA: 4.33 weighted 3.95 unweighted (one B freshman year in english arrrgg)
Rank: 21/400 sumthin
AMC/AIME/USAMO: 132.5 AMC-12/ 3 AIME/no USAMO
Other Olympiads: Scioly - top 25 teams in nation
Other stats: </p>

<p>Siemens Westinghouse Competition National Finalist, 4th Place
Science Bowl Nationals, top 16 teams
Researcher at National Lab
Scholastics Gold Key in Art (never knew i was an artist till freshman year :-P)
Homecoming court
Competitive Soccer since 6th grade, high school coach says I can’t play high school because I’m gone too much for academic tourneys <em>sadface</em></p>

<p>Subjective:
Essays: good? I dunno prolly pretty bad, I didn’t have time to spend combing over them a million times
Teacher Recs: I hope good, I’m pretty sure.
Counselor Rec: Pretty good I think, I didn’t ask. I baked her cookies afterwards!
Hook (if any): siemens, science bowl, national lab researcher</p>

<p>Location/Person:
State or Country: TN
School Type: Public
Ethnicity: Male, Middle Class and white
Gender: Male
major strength/weakness: Umm…I’m uber at science and math and i’m funny, i’m a nice guy, i swear ;-)/i forget stuff, i once managed to lock my keys in my car with it on…oy</p>

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<p>SAT: 1430 800 Math, 730 Verbal</p>

<p>isnt it 1530?</p>

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<p>Your awards are great and your stats are pretty good too. I think you have reason to be confident; if not Caltech, I’m sure you’ll get into a great college.</p>

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<p>yea…oops 1530 = 800+730. you’ll just have to trust the collegeboard that i can earn an 800 on math twice :-P</p>

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<p>does caltech only count the verbal and math?</p>

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<p>i took the old SAT, but most colleges do only consider the first two, the writing portion is goign to be used with yoru academic performance at a school wtih some other factors to create statistics to determine exactly what the writing portion means for academic ability and since it’s new those statistics dont’ exist yet</p>

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<p>We don’t emphasize the writing portion much at present.</p>

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<p>Dude, that Siemens competition thing is so stupid. Like, anyone can win it. And you only got 4th, I mean no offense man, but that really isn’t that great.</p>

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<p>hmm… maybe they’re just worried that when you get to caltech you’ll keep telling people you’re “uber” at math and science? :-P</p>

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<p>Haha, yea guitarman, it really wasn’t that much work, I mean, I only put like 40000 hours into it (okay more like 600 hours) into in a few months. I just hope I don’t end up like the 3rd place individual…:-P</p>

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<p>well i kno caltech rejected a lot EA too, so if ur deferred u still got a great shot (i wonder how many deferred students get accepted during RD on average?). I guess once u got the stats and ec’s, i think it’s all about attitude/passion. :]</p>

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<p>that is a good question I am curious about the same thing. How many deferred EA students get accepted RD</p>

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<p>Yeah, as am I. Very curious to know those stats. Even though I didn’t apply EA :p</p>

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<p>well this year i kno out of over 600, 130~ was accepted, and over 100 was rejected, so that leaves about 360-70 deferrals?</p>

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<p>But I wonder how many deferrals typically are accepted RD.</p>

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<p>yea me too :]</p>

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<p>if they accepted 130ish EA, doesnt that mean that they will only let about 100 kids in RD, assuming 30 kids turn them down? they typically only expect 200 kids / year</p>

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<p>You’d have to ask Ben for exact number, but I think closer to 500 are admitted each year. So that would be around 370 accepted RD.</p>

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<p>We were also told during our visit that about 500 are admitted each year to generate 200-225 who enroll.</p>

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<p>Yeah I’m sure plenty more than 30 people (including EA acceptees) turn Caltech down in favor of Harvard, MIT, etc. While others turn those schools in favor of Caltech.</p>