<p>I agree with mother<em>of</em>perl: retake. There won’t be leeway for missing any of the criteria–the middle 50% SAT scores for this fall’s incoming class (next thread) indicate that a whole lot of accepted people would be in your category. </p>
<p>Also, make sure that you have the top 10% of HS class nailed down. At least one person this past year went to a HS that didn’t rank, although s/he easily met all the other criteria. I believe s/he ended up getting a letter from high school counselor to the affect that “if we ranked, X would clearly be in that decile,” which might have worked.</p>
<p>P.S.–like m<em>o</em>P’s daughter, my son loved his first year at Mudd–so much so that he finagled a way to stay over the summer.</p>