<p>Lately, this question has struck me as rather awkward, since I’ve never really hard a Techer pronounce “Caltech”.</p>
<p>Thanks in advance.</p>
<p>What options are there?</p>
<p>Cal (rhymes with “gal”) - tech (rhymes with “neck”).</p>
<p>I have a sort of lazy southerner’s tongue, so I usually say it like it is two different words (which it sort of is)… “I’m going to Cal Tech!” lol</p>
<p>Isn’t that a cool thing to say, though, lizzardfire?</p>
<p>;-)</p>
<p>Just don’t pronounce it em-eye-tee.</p>
<p>HAHAHAHA</p>
<p>Sorry for that little outburst.</p>
<p>You would think after saying it about 5000 times in the past few days it would stop being cool… but it hasn’t yet!. Hey, guess what? I’m going to Caltech!!!</p>
<p>A statement like that will NEVER stop being cool. Tens of thousands of years from now high school students will be saying, “I wish I could have gone to Caltech.”</p>
<p>Take the first syllable of California. Then take the first syllable of Technology. That’s how you pronounce Caltech.</p>
<p>Oddly enough, you ignore the words “Institute” and “of”.</p>
<p>“Institute” and “of” are old, used-up words and we try to ignore them.</p>
<p>I think most students at my school have never heard of Caltech lol. Then again, most students I know haven’t heard of anywhere but local schools and maybe Harvard. I always get asked by kids, “Why aren’t you going to Harvard?” At first I tried to explain why I wasn’t interested in attending Harvard… then I got tired of it and just started saying “Because Harvard sucks.” At least that they understood! lol</p>
<p>Edit: My mom had a few months where she would call Caltech MIT… she even did it once when we were AT Caltech. After we visited though she realized how much I loved Caltech and she figured it out :P</p>
<p>Yeah, this seventh grade kid I’m tutoring asked “I’ve never heard of Caltech. Does that mean you didn’t get into MIT?” I wanted to punch him.</p>
<p>Ouch! (10 char)</p>
<p>Allright, this has been bugging me for awhile. What does “10 char” stand for?</p>
<p>But you know… I told someone I wanted to go to Caltech, and I was told, “Shoot for the stars. Try MIT.”</p>
<p>Try posting a response saying only “Yes” and you’ll see what 10 char means.</p>
<p>um … Yes?</p>
<p>EDIT: Ha. I just figured it out. That’s amusing.</p>
<p>Honestly I think it’s great. The people that you really want to know about Caltech (like employers) do, and the people that you could care less about don’t. It keeps the applications to Caltech limited for the most part to people who know what it’s about and are truly passionate about it, rather than kids who apply to a billion Ivies just for the name. </p>
<p>[Note: Long and slightly boring story follows]</p>
<p>I’ll be honest, I used to be enamored with MIT. I wanted to go there since middle school. I visited it in Junior year and really liked it. Then, during the summer before senior year I started researching colleges… I had heard of Caltech but didn’t know a lot about it. So I researched it and a few others and had my application list… with Caltech as my number 2 choice. (MIT, Caltech, Stanford, Princeton, Carnegie Mellon, Johns Hopkins, Georgia Tech, and UF in that order). As time went on and I learned more about Caltech I began to start wondering… I began surfing the collegetalk forums and discovered a funny man from Caltech who frequently posts in the MIT forums. Eventually I went out to California to visit Stanford and Caltech and that really changed my point of view. MIT is nice and impressive… but Caltech was like “This is home.” I really became obsessed with Caltech… good thing I got in!</p>
<p>P.S. I <3 Ben!</p>
<p>i still don’t get what 10 char means… :/</p>