Thank you very much for your application to the Chemical Engineering graduate program at the California Institute of Technology. After carefully reviewing your application, the admissions committee has decided to decline your application. As you no doubt know, we are able to act favorably upon only a small percentage of the thousands of applications we receive each year. In many cases we are unable to offer admission to highly qualified candidates because of limited space and facilities, or because their interests do not coincide sufficiently well with the needs and interests of our faculty.
Best of luck on your future endeavors. I sincerely hope that you will be able to pursue your graduate work at another university.
Best Regards,