Caltech does get the occasional bad admit, where the admissions office gets bamboozled or takes a risk. The one case I knew personally could write code decentl

Caltech does get the occasional bad admit, where the admissions office gets bamboozled or takes a risk. The one case I knew personally could write code decently well compared to many Stanford grads, but couldn't handle the Caltech curriculum and would probably do poorly on a coding interview.