MikeTC

Hello Mike,
 
Thanks. Yes, I received the official offer per email on February 17. I have yet to receive the official letter though (probably because the postal system in the Philippines is not reliable at all). 
 
Don't worry too much about your ESOP application though; I assume that different departments handle the scholarship applications differently.
 
The professor who interviewed me just asked about my thesis proposal, my undergraduate thesis and why I wanted to attend the program that I applied to. The interview was only about 15 minutes and she told me that she would endorse my scholarship application at the end of it.
 
Best,
K

Both. She started of with questions about my motivation and then went on to more technical questions when we discussed my proposal and undergraduate thesis. Regarding my undergraduate thesis, she asked about my results and asked how I used the data (what tests I used and their limitations) to come to that conclusion. She also asked me about the technical aspects of my proposal and about previous academic research on the topic. 
 
Your questions should be similar since she told me that the questions are somewhat set since they are limited to 15 minutes per interview.
 
Regarding the decisions, would you happen to know when it will roughly come out? My interviewer did tell me that she had to forward the endorsement ASAP since the rectorate wanted it already or something to that effect.

I recently saw a Blog entry about the differences in culture of Caltech and Stanford. I'll see if i can find it again, it was quite amusing ;-)
 
EDIT: Well not really a blog entry, but still amusing ... http://www.quora.com/What-do-California-Institute-of-Technology-students-alumni-think-of-Stanford-students-alumni

There is a google group ZurichCalling and a lot of Alumni clubs for different fields...