<p>I don’t have the time in my schedule to take two more APs. I have 9 periods and they are all filled up every year. </p>
<p>I got my second concussion yesterday at practice, short-term amnesia is quite the experience.</p>
<p>AtomicFusion (vainly trying to get back on topic),
When we visited HMC, they were very clear that they wanted to see well-rounded people. I got the impression that too many academic ECs were not a good thing and that long-term commitment to a couple of activities (whether it’s football, USACO, music) was highly valued. </p>
<p>Does HMC get a lot of USACO/USAMO/etc. participants/Intel semifianlists? I haven’t seen Olympiad participation mentioned in any of the literature or websites/discussions I’ve seen. I would be surprised if there weren’t a goodly number of folks who did it, it’s just not something they mentioned as valuable (or that they promoted – i.e., “we had 13 USAMO qualifiers in our incoming freshman class”) on the tour or in their other materials.</p>
<p>I know that there are students who did the Olympiads. I would bet there are a few USAMO and Intel semifinalists. We do value well-roundedness a lot, but we still would like to see some real achievement in math and science. Sports will help somewhat, but not as much as at another college. We aren’t really interested in recruiting either… (we don’t even have our own sports teams, we form our teams with CMC and Scripps).</p>
<p>We do want long term commitment to a few things instead of just the laundry list of ECs. However, a sport by itself really doesn’t cut it (typically). It is more academic EC commitment that we wish to see. And don’t forget that “well-rounded” applies to academics first and foremost. We want students who can do well in non-math/science classes (we require a lot of humanity courses). Our students are actually pretty well-rounded; we are way more well-rounded than students at somewhere like Caltech.</p>
<p>Mudd does NOT want well-rounded students. They want superior students in the sciences that have a profound appreciation for the arts and society.</p>
<p>No, Mudd is not a general purpose LAC. We want tech school rigor with LAC flavor.</p>
<p>I think we do want well-rounded students. The way I can best put it is we want students who are amazing in math and science, but also great in other subjects as well.</p>
<p>Yes, if it were possible, Mudd would want prodigies in all fields. However, Not everyone can be amazing in all subjects… so Mudd would rather you are especially amazing in math/science/engineering.</p>
<p>That is not exactly well rounded. It is more like an ellipse with eccentricity of maybe 2?</p>
<p>CountingDown, one of the 2005 Intel STS finalists is a member of the HMC class of 2009. We get a few Presidential Scholars once in a while.</p>
<p>I asked because I was thinking about Olympiads/Intel as a benchmark for assessing HMC’s interest in academic ECs, rather than as a “brainiac quota,” if that makes sense!
Thanks for the info!</p>