{"id":1484,"date":"2007-04-04T09:39:28","date_gmt":"2007-04-04T16:39:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/?p=1484"},"modified":"2007-04-04T09:39:28","modified_gmt":"2007-04-04T16:39:28","slug":"why-i-loved-caltech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2007\/04\/04\/why-i-loved-caltech\/","title":{"rendered":"Why I Loved Caltech"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From an <a href=\"https:\/\/myaccount.nytimes.com\/auth\/login?URI=www-nc.nytimes.com\/2007\/04\/04\/education\/04colleges.html&amp;REFUSE_COOKIE_ERROR=SHOW_ERROR\">article<\/a> in today&#8217;s New York Times on college admissions:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nBut with more and more students filling out ever more applications, schools like the California Institute of Technology received a record number of applications this year \u2014 3,595, or 8 percent more than last year \u2014 and admitted 576 students. Among so many talented applicants, a prospective student with perfect SAT scores was not unusual, said Jill Perry, a Caltech spokeswoman.<br \/>\n\u201cThe successful students have to have shown some passion for science and technology in high school or their personal life,\u201d Ms. Perry said. \u201cThat means creating a computer system for your high school, or taking a tractor apart and putting it back together.\u201d\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m imagining a box on the Caltech application which says &#8220;Check here if you have ever taken a tractor apart and put it back together.&#8221;  \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From an article in today&#8217;s New York Times on college admissions: But with more and more students filling out ever more applications, schools like the California Institute of Technology received a record number of applications this year \u2014 3,595, or 8 percent more than last year \u2014 and admitted 576 students. Among so many talented &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2007\/04\/04\/why-i-loved-caltech\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Why I Loved Caltech&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[29,76],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fragment","category-self-meet-center-center-meet-self"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1484\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}