Hello! ,
I hope everyone is enjoying their holiday break and having a chance to relax. From watching the news on TV and online, it looks like much of the country is going to have a white and cold Christmas. Here in Pasadena, it will be a typical SoCal winter day, about 65 degrees, with a lot of sun and a few clouds.
For those of you who will be applying Regular Decision, please remember that the deadline is January 4, 2010. The Admissions Office will be closed beginning @ 12 noon today (December 24) and will reopen on Monday, January 4 @ 8 a.m. If you have any questions regarding the application process, please go on to our website www.admissions.caltech.edu where we have posted our most recent webinar session, held on December 21, entitled "Application Axioms". This session covered the application process in detail. Also, we will be monitoring our e-mail account, so if you do have questions, please send them to ug@admissions.caltech.edu and a staff person will get back to you.
Finally, for those of you who applied Early Action, making the final decsisions was tough. We had 25% more applicants this year and the pool was very impressive. For those of you who were admitted, congratulations! For those of you who were held for Regular Decision, the admissions committee looks forward to seeing you in the next round. And for those who we could not continue with the process, I do want to let you know that all of you are excellent students. While this may not satisfy a lot of you, please know that the admissions committee was extemely impressed with the quality of EA applicants this year. You and your parents should be very proud of your many accomplishments
Well, that's about it for 2009. I'm looking foward to the start of a new decade! See you next year!!
Ray
