stevedad

the overwhelmingly male narrow-mindedly science-oriented student body

Yikes!

Although that might have once been the case at Mudd, I don't think it is accurate today. Mudd's present freshman class is 40% or more female.

As for "narrow-mindedly science-oriented," I think that if you could somehow discount for the impact of the required course load (tough to do), you would find that the students are not excessively blindered. After all, Mudd's liberal arts requirements/emphasis is one reason that many of them chose to attend Mudd over tech-oriented schools that have more national recognition. As aibarr and others have shown in response to the OP's question on other threads, the arts are alive and well among a good chunk of Mudd students.

BUT, it is true that an outstanding school such as Carleton, which offers a much wider variety of majors, will have a student body that is less science/math/engineering oriented that Mudd and almost certainly will have even more of a female population. At the present time, however, the differences, while real, are likely not as stark as indicated by the quoted fragment from your post.

(Disclosure--S1 is frosh at Mudd; he was an actor and president of the thespian honor society in high school, among other things. And the liberal arts emphasis was a big factor in his choosing Mudd.)