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 ...

When the prestigious California Institute of Technology announced in August 2023 it would drop calculus as an admissions requirement — students must prove mastery of the subject but don't have to take ...

I voted for the calc based physics. While its been awhile, I don't recall the calculus they put you through in physics 101 being all that intense. And I also recall having it fairly well spelled out, ...

If you’ve been anywhere near a physics, chemistry or calculus class recently, chances are pretty good that you’ve seen a ...

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 ...