What Qualifies as an Unresolvable Course Conflict?

Only students who meet one or more of the following criteria may use an alternative method to demonstrate preparedness in these areas of STEM. Unresolvable course conflicts include the following:

• The required class was not available at a student's high school.
• The student was tracked to take the course, but too few students registered, and the course was canceled.
• The student was not tracked to take calculus by graduation and school policy does not allow the student to take calculus.
• The student attends high school in an educational desert where no college or university exists for a student to take additional coursework.
• The courses were offered at the same time and the student could not complete all of Caltech's requirements in high school.
• The course was not a graduation requirement for high school in the student's district or state, therefore the student did not know they needed it for Caltech and student now does not have time or opportunity to enroll in the class before applying.