<p>I love that admissions story (not sure whether it’s true or not) about how Caltech’s incoming class a few years ago all had 800’s on the math section of the SAT. </p>
<p>Caltech is less holistic than MIT (just from what I’ve seen in admission threads and stuff). They seem to mainly focus on very high scores and placement in well known math/science competitions (USAMO, intel, etc).</p>