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 

At first settled as the area Throop University in 1891, Caltech is a by and large new school. In 1907, space master George Ellery Hale joined the Throop driving group of trustees and began to change the school into a foundation for planning and exploratory investigation and preparing. Today, it is seen as one of the Top Ten National Universities.
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