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Caltech (Pasadena, CA) admits about 3% of applicants overall. But the overall rate isn’t your rate. QuantAdmit computes a personalized admission probability from your GPA, SAT/ACT, and course rigor — so you see where you actually stand, not just the school-wide average.
The 3% acceptance rate treats every applicant the same. Your real chances depend on your numbers. Build a profile, then run your personalized admission probability — Caltech against your GPA, test scores, and rigor.
An acceptance rate of 3% is a single average across the whole applicant pool. A student well above the admitted test-score band and GPA norms has meaningfully higher odds than that average; a student below it has lower odds. QuantAdmit estimates your probability from your own GPA, SAT/ACT, and course rigor — not the headline number. Odds are estimates, not guarantees, and admissions decisions weigh essays, recommendations, and other factors this model doesn’t capture.
Acceptance rate and test scores from U.S. Dept. of Education College Scorecard / IPEDS (figures lag ~2 years); verify with Caltech directly. Your personalized odds are model estimates — see the methodology.
These outputs are estimates from a baseline model — not guarantees of admission, cost, or outcome.