Caltech v Mudd for engineering

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^It’s been a few years since I last looked at these requirements. Just took another look. Your interpretations of HMC and MIT requirements seem to me to be correct. However, wrt to Caltech, your interpretation

Caltech requires that 36 units of each of H and SS be divided between introductory and advanced courses (an additional 36 units of elective H/SS is also required to make 108 units). Two frosh-level humanities courses must be writing intensive. The advanced H/SS courses may not be taken pass/fail (but introductory level courses are not restricted, and all frosh year courses are pass/fail).

is off a bit, in a couple of areas:

1. Writing intensive courses are all upper level (i.e. advanced) H/SS courses. Freshman-level courses don’t count.

2. At least 3 writing intensive courses are required, two of which can be from advance humanity courses. All of them have to be graded.

3. Not all freshman-year courses are graded pass/fail. Only the first 2 quarters are and there’re 3 quarters in an academic year. A student can certainly select an H/SS course to be graded P/F in the 3rd quarter if s/he so choose (and use up that option for that quarter).

The most up-to-date information is in its catalog:
http://www.catalog.caltech.edu/current