A campus scene at California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, Calif., on Feb. 28, 2013.
This year’s winner for most selective private doctoral-level school in America is right here on the West Coast. The California Institute of Technology (more commonly known as Caltech) in Pasadena has eclipsed the traditionally stringent East Coast and Ivy League schools to become the hardest-to-get-into university in the country.
The narrow new distinction, according to the San Diego Union-Tribune, was revealed in this year’s Almanac of Higher Education, put out annually by the Chronicle of........