The Official Decisions Thread!

[BobbyBrown]

When do you find out about the Harvey Mudd Merit award? My acceptance packet said nothing, but I'm pretty sure I qualify for it.

[Seiken]

If you think you qualify for the merit award, but did not receive notification, you should contact admissions of financial aid to see whats up. Ive heard people do get overlooked when it comes to the merit award.

[CountingDown]

If your school doesn't rank, you have to get a letter from your GC stating that you're in the top 10%. That's our next move. DS did email the Mudd Admissions office to see if the letter would have been included -- when we hear something, I'll post.

[Oldengr]

If you get the 10k merit award and also make it to National Merit finalist, do you get any extra award (eg. $2,500 or $1,000)?

[GleasSpty]

Accepted


Stats:

• SAT: CR-680, M-800, W-660
• SAT II: Mth Lvl. 2-800, Physics-800, Chem-790
• ACT: E-31, M-36, R-35, S-34, Composite-34
• GPA: 3.78
• Rank: 26/640
• Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB): Physics C (both parts)-5, BC Calculus-5, Chemisry-5, AB Comp Sci-4, APUSH-3

Subjective

• Essays: I guess they were pretty good b/c I got a little personal note about them on my acceptnace letter.
• Teacher Recs: Above average?
• Counselor Rec: Probably not too good. She just became my counselor a coupe of months before she wrote the recs and has several hundred other studnets to worry about. I was basicallly just a number to her.
• Supplementary Material: I might have sent a research paper, but I don't rmember.
• Interview: No

Personal

• Location: Near Cleveland
• High School Type: Large Public
• Ethnicity: Caucasian
• Gender: Male

Other

• Extracurriculars: Independnet study+standard math/science stuff.
• Awards: Several mediocre placements at the state, regional, and school level in math/sciecne/latin.

[Jrowe]

I got into Harvey Mudd and Carnegie Mellon (CIT) for engineering (undeclared). Is it obvious that i should go to harvey mudd?

[dhruv17590]

^^ I would. Honestly I'd pick Harvey Mudd over most colleges. Had a similr dilemma last week. IF I got into Columbia/Cornell (and I got Columbia) is HMC the obvious pick.

Sure Mudd isnt known so much. but its such a fantastic school. and I dont think the education you'd get at CMU is even comparable to Harvey Mudd. Thats based on a week of reading opinions and this vs. that stuff about HMC and the Ivy/MIT/Caltech/Stanford...

People pick Harvey Mudd for engineering over the ivies and the big tech schools (MIT and Cal)...I dont think Carnegie Mellon puts up a real fight ...

Thats just my 2 cents though I suggest you do your own research...Go with the feeling you get after...

[Seiken]

Well I would say CMU would be worth considering for computer science, though in the end I would probably chose Mudd over it ^^.

[mother_of_perl]

Oldergr: Yes, if you are a NM finalist, put HMC down as your first choice college and I believe that they will automatically give you the $1,000 scholarship (renewable for all 4 years). My D received both the HMC $10,000/yr scholarship and the NM scholarship.

[ScoutMom]

Design News magazine had an article about the benefits of small
engineering schools, but even if you are not an engineering major, the article says a lot about why you should go to Harvey Mudd
http://www.designnews.com/article/CA6538021.html

If you are interested in going on to earn your Ph.D,
this reflects institutions in the nation ranked by percentage of graduates who go on to earn a Ph.D. in selected disciplines

BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES: Reed, CalTech, Swarthmore, U Chicago, Kalamazoo, MIT, Earlham, Harvey Mudd, U Sciences Philadelphia, Grinnell

CHEMISTRY: Harvey Mudd, Reed, CalTech, Wabash, Carleton, Grinnell, Wooster, Kalamazoo, Texas Lutheran, Bowdoin

MATH & COMPUTER SCIENCES: CalTech, Harvey Mudd, MIT, Reed, Rice, Princeton, U Chicago, Carnegie Mellon, St. John's, Pomona

PHYSICAL SCIENCES: Harvey Mudd, CalTech, MIT, Reed, NM Institute of Mining, Carleton, Wabash, U Chicago, Grinnell, Rice

PHYSICS: CalTech, Harvey Mudd, MIT, NM Institute of Mining, Reed, U Chicago, Princeton, Carleton, Marlboro, Rice

SCIENCES & ENGINEERING: CalTech, Harvey Mudd, MIT, Reed, Swarthmore, Carleton, U Chicago, Rice, Princeton, Haverford

Source: Weighted Baccalaureate Origins Study, Higher Education Data Sharing Consortium (2004)

[mrego]

Rejected


Stats:

* SAT: 2200 (770 CR, 730 M, 700 W)
* SAT II: 790 Math IIC, 790 Physics, 790 World History
* ACT: 34
* GPA: 3.7
* Rank: N/A
* Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB): 5 on AP US History, National Merit Finalist, AMC12 in 11th grade

Subjective

* Essays: ok
* Teacher Recs: ? didn't see them
* Counselor Rec: ?
* Supplementary Material: none
* Interview: None

Personal

* Location: Colorado
* High School Type: Public
* Ethnicity: White
* Gender: Male

Other

* Extracurriculars: Math Olympiad, Knowledge Bowl, model UN
* Awards: Math Olympaid, Vocabulary competition (2nd in state, twice), school design competition winner, Spanish competition
* Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?:

[LoveMudd]

Accepted

Stats:
*SAT: 2160. 700 Reading. 680 Math. 780 Writing.
*SAT II: 780 World, 720 Biology Molecular, 710 Chemistry, 710 Math I, 700 Math II, 680 Biology Ecology, and 670 French Reading
*GPA: 93.77 unweighted; my school only does the 0-100 unweighted grading scale.
*Rank: between top 5-10% in a class of 597 students; officially, school does not rank
*Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB): total of 7 AP courses/exams in high school.

Subjective
*Essays: Awesome.
*Teacher Recs: Probably awesome
*Counselor Rec: Probably Awesome
*Supplementary Material: none.
*Interview: Awesome.
*Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize): none.

Personal
*Location: NYC
*High School Type: ranked #20 best in the nation by US News Rankings, large specialized science public high school with a selective entrance exam
*Ethnicity: Asian
*Gender: [ /list][ b]Other[ /b][ list] Female

*Extracurriculars
editor of biology journal, editor of physical reactions journal at school; tutored 2 kids in creative writing; 2 Arista community service projects per semester; bio-engineering research 2 summers; local college courses, writing short stories in free time
*Awards: Arista Honor Society and a few state and city science research awards in JSHS and Biogeneius
*Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?:[ /list]
Advice: Apply to HMC juniors!!

[Miru]

wow, ScoutMom, those stats are really interesting....Harvey Mudd above MIT a lot of the time is pretty impressive! I hate that Math and Computer Science is always put in the same category, because sometimes a bad, purely theory based CS program is at the same school as a good math program (such as Colorado school of mines...every time I asked about CS they kept on trying to redirect me to their applied math department)

[LoveMudd]

How do you get your stats to be in colors and in bullet points? i copied and pastes the format but it didnt show up.

[Seiken]

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