California Institute of Technology

 

5. California Institute of Technology 
Pasadena, CA 

Acceptance Rate: 10.6% 
SAT/ACT 25th Percentile: SAT 2160; ACT 33 
SAT/ACT 75th Percentile: SAT 2380; ACT 35 

Initially settled as the neighborhood Throop University in 1891, Caltech is a generally new school. In 1907, space expert George Ellery Hale joined the Throop leading body of trustees and started to change the school into an establishment for designing and experimental exploration and training. Today, it is viewed as one of the Top Ten National Universities.
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