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I am accepted into Caltech, although I am not quite sure whether I’d want to go there. The size is the biggest reason, and the lack of diversity only makes it worse. Plus, it looks like a place where people work diligently 24-7, not something I’d be comfortable doing. To make it worse, this year 10 guys got accepted for every girl! At the beginning of the year, I didn’t expect to have this dilemma; I only expected acceptance into Cal / UC Berkeley.

It’s strange I got waitlisted from MIT but accepted into Caltech, since the number admitted to Caltech is 1/10th of the number admitted to MIT. Oh wait, what did I hear? Caltech does not endorse discrimination on the basis of sex! That’s right. If MIT turned a blind eye to sex, I’d be in, but apparently it considered “diversity” a more important point of consideration than fairness.