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Is it the college for you?

Is it the college for you?. By Ben Erickson. Overview. At a Glance School Population Undergraduate Admissions Academics Expenses Student Life Traditions Famous Alumni To Learn More…. At a Glance. California Institute of Technology, “Caltech”

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Is it the college for you?

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  1. Is it the college for you? By Ben Erickson

  2. Overview • At a Glance • School Population • Undergraduate Admissions • Academics • Expenses • Student Life • Traditions • Famous Alumni • To Learn More…

  3. At a Glance • California Institute of Technology, “Caltech” • Private, not-for-profit, highly competitive • Established in 1921 • Located in Pasadena, California

  4. What do you want to be? Is Caltech for you?

  5. Undergraduate Admissions • Requirements • High GPA • Strong Recommendations • Outstanding SAT or ACT test scores • 230 freshmen enrolled annually • 2010 Acceptance Rate: 13%

  6. School Population • 967 undergraduate students • 1,208 graduate students • 60% male, 40% female • 3-1 student-faculty ratio

  7. Academics 24 majors offered in six areas of study • Biology • Chemistry and Chemical Engineering • Engineering and Applied Sciences • Geological and Planetary Sciences • Physics, Mathematics and Astronomy • Humanities and Social Sciences

  8. Expenses • Tuition + Fees..............................$36,282 • Books + Supplies............................$1,323 • Room + Board...............................$11,397 Total............$49,002 • Average Financial Aid Package……$26,267 • Round Trip Anchorage-Los Angeles: under $600 *All information is an estimate or average.

  9. Student Life • Housing • Freshmen are required to live on campus in one of the eight houses. • Most upperclassmen elect to stay in their house. • There is no grade-specific housing

  10. Sports Caltech has several intercollegiate sports, all NCAA Division III, and many club and inter-house sports.

  11. Traditions “Ditch Day” • Initiated in the 1920s • Seniors select one day every year to ditch school. • Freshmen attempt to get into seniors’ dorms while they are gone, to “modify” seniors’ rooms. • For example: • Room filled with Styrofoam • Furniture glued to the ceiling • Room converted into beach

  12. Pranks • Caltech has a long-standing rivalry with MIT. In 2005 Caltech students visited MIT. While there, they handed out free tee-shirts with MIT printed on the front. But when they opened it up, they discovered that on the back it said…

  13. One year later… In retribution, students from MIT went to Caltech and “borrowed” the 130-year-old, 1.7 ton cannon that is fired every year at Caltech graduations.

  14. The Great Rose Bowl Hoax (1961) Minnesota vs. Washington Washington fans raised colored squares to show 15 different images of their mascot, a huskie. But when they raised the 14th image…

  15. Famous Alumni/Faculty • 31 Nobel Prizewinners • 17 alumni • 14 non-alumni faculty • Nobel Laureates • Arnold Beckman - inventor of the pH meter • Gordon Moore – co-founder of Intel Corporation • Linus Pauling – discoverer of the double-helix shape of DNA

  16. Remember, if you want to be a doctor, a lawyer, or an artist…. Don’t go to Caltech. But if you want to be a rocket scientist, the California Institute of Technology is the place for you.

  17. To Learn More… • Caltech Website: www.caltech.edu • College Navigator: nces.ed.gov/collegenavigator • Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org

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