Caltech professor Jared Leadbetter meets with university admissions ambassadors, from left, Emily Hu, Jj Jones and Miles Jones. Leadbetter helped develop an alternative path to admissions, dropping ...

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In a major shift for one of the nation's most prestigious universities, Caltech announced Thursday it is dropping its longstanding admissions requirement for applicants to have completed calculus, ...

Kimberly Miranda is the brainy daughter of Guatemalan immigrants and the first in her family to attend college. But she almost didn’t make it to the California Institute of Technology. Her Redwood ...