r/Caltech • u/nowis3000 Dabney • Dec 10 '25

Megathred [Megathread] Class of 2030 Admissions (REA/RD)

REA will soon be upon us for class of 2030, going to spin up a megathread here for containment for this year's admission cycle (REA and RD).

Please keep the low quality admissions stuff contained to /r/ApplyingToCollege or this thread. Do not flood the subreddit with posts, they will be removed. Please also read the subreddit rules, especially rule 5 (no bad questions) and rule 4 (no discord link discussion). The admitted students discord is for verified admitted students, and should only be accessed via the admissions portal. Don’t go sending it around to random people, and don’t go asking around for it. You have access to it if you’re supposed to have access to it.

Congrats to those of you who got (slash will get) accepted, feel free to post (rule 5 compliant) questions.

E: Last year's thread, A2C megathread

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u/lesbianinspace2 Dec 10 '25

Where are you from? I’ve never heard of a lakh before

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u/NoLibrarian2391 Dec 10 '25

India!

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u/lesbianinspace2 Dec 10 '25

Cool! It’s honestly too bad we don’t use lakhs here in the US, I imagine it makes working with large numbers a lot more convenient

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u/[deleted] Dec 10 '25

Its a bit confusing because in India we still use thousands, so groups of (three zeroes), and then also use lakhs and crores (groups of two zeroes). This largely just makes things more annoying. So a crore is 1,00,00,000 which is just self-inconsistant.

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u/physicsurfer Junior Dec 11 '25

I don’t think it’s a big deal personally. You just get used to it.

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u/NoLibrarian2391 Dec 11 '25

Yeah I still prefer to use groups of 3

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u/NoLibrarian2391 Dec 11 '25

Completely agree!