California Institute of Technology

Upon leaving Davis, we began the long drive from Northern California to Los Angeles. We stopped overnight about two hours from L.A. and then drove on in the morning to Pasadena, where we would be visiting the California Institute of Technology, or Caltech. Again, we were early so we did our own self-guided tour prior to the actual campus tour and then ended with an informational session that was one of the best we had seen. The admissions counselor was forthright and funny as opposed to so many we had seen who were either disengaged or reading from a script.