Most students who apply to Caltech have strong academic credentials. To set yourself apart, you need to show skills in qualitative aspects of your application, too. Essays are one way to do this. This year, Caltech has the following prompts: Tell us about a time or experience in which yo...
Before you begin writing, make a list of the reasons you decided to apply to the program. You might find it helpful to explicitly jot down the things that drew you to the Honors Program in the first place. One of these reasons might very well be the subject of your essay. You should...
Funding information is provided on each US university’s website, and students should usually apply for financial aid at the same time as their application is submitted. A small number of elite US universities also have “need-blind” admission policies for all applicants. This means students’ ...
According to Seymour Benzer (1921 − 2007) who had had postdoctoral experience at Caltech with Max Delbrück [9], “Delbrück was captivated by Bohr’s idea of complementarity and the uncertainty principle, which Bohr had tried to apply to everything: history, economics, etc. I don’t...
(Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech) Light travels at approximately 186,282 miles per second (299,792 km per second). Therefore, a light shining from the surface of Mars would take the following amount of time to reach Earth (or vice versa): Closest possible approach: 182 seconds, or 3.03 ...
Universities and research institutions:California is home to several world-class universities and research institutions such as Stanford University; the University of California, Berkeley; and the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). These institutions attract top talent, promote a culture of inno...
This article is a guide to admissions to the top schools in the country. To be explicit, I include in this themost selective schools in the Ivy League(consisting of Harvard, Yale, Princeton, the University of Pennsylvania, and Columbia) as well as Stanford, MIT, Duke, and Caltech. Genera...
Many of these observations about his learning process have been collected into what we now call “The Feynman Technique.” This article will provide an overview of the Feynman Technique for learning and how you can apply it to continuously expand your knowledge and skill set. In short, ...
engaging in competition with other people in one’s immediate presence. The sheer immediacy and shared energy of the group dynamic that can be hard to replicate in online settings can be employed within in-person settings to help students more fully explore, comprehend and apply complex material....
ready-made analogies for us. For example, we all probably have “the mitochondria are the powerhouse of the cell” burned into our collective memories. However, pushing ourselves to create our own analogies is even more powerful than regurgitating a borrowed one that we may not actually ...