<p>For engineering.</p>
<p>How many absences can you have? Do they care as long as you take the exams?</p>
<p>How much homework is given? How much percent of the grade is it worth?</p>
<p>Are classes broad casted? If you miss a class is it detrimental to your grade?</p>
<p>If there is any other important info that comes to mind regarding teaching/ class style, please let me know! (Besides the fact that class size is big haha)</p>
<p>Just curious, Thanks! :)</p>
<p>engineering classes NEVER take attendance. The only times when you actually need to show up are the days when homeworks are due and for midterms (and for quizzes for some classes). The only exception I can think of was an E10 class that my roommate took last year.</p>
<p>thank you. Do you think you could answer my other questions as well? How much is homework worth? How much time do you spend on it in a week?</p>
<p>Alot of your questions are really dependent on which classes/professors you are talking about.</p>
<p>For example some of my engineering classes the homework isn’t worth anything (all based on performance on tests), while in others the homework is usually worth around 20%.</p>
<p>As for attendance, you aren’t required to go to any classes at all (not recommended). This isn’t high school :p</p>
<p>Blackroses, I think you’re wasting more than enough time weighing Berkeley against Harvey Mudd. Just go to Berkeley. Harvey Mudd is located in a boring town and it’s very expensive. You seem to think there’s a big difference between the two in terms of education - not really if you’re a motivated engineer. As long as you don’t fall under the trap of CalSO counselors by signing up for classes you’ve already taken in your freshman year, you should actually be ahead of your Harvey Mudd peers in terms of progress. Sure, it’s nice to learn calculus and physics with more rigor at Harvey Mudd, but you can just take upper division math and honors physics at Cal which will do the exact same thing and will look nicer on your transcript (and probably learn more).</p>
<p>^Thanks, that’s informative, but that wasn’t my question. I guess you noticed i posted this similar post for the HMC forum, but I was curious as to how the learning styles are different. I’m not saying one is better than the other. I’m not really weighing them out anymore; I’m more focused on trying to find the best fit for me- where I’ll be happier. The way classes are held/ the structure of daily life is important to me. There are a lot of factors that go into it, but I figured I really didn’t know anything of how it functions. Of course engineering is going to be rigorous at both schools. While HMC makes your course rigorous, you can make your course load at Berkeley just as rigorous. I’ll be touring both schools soon, and I’m pretty sure that will make my decision a lot clearer.</p>
<p>Thanks.</p>
<p>WOW, you’re still deciding? i remember your username from like 5 months ago and you were deciding then too.</p>
<p>what the heck? have you even gotten into either yet?</p>
<p>I’m a senior this year. I’ll be applying Nov 30 for UCs, maybe ED for Harvey Mudd Nov. 15.</p>
<p>dude, get into the schools first, THEN decide. If you’re considering both Cal and HMC, then APPLY TO BOTH. Then see which ones you get into. If you get into one and not the other, then your decision has been made for you. If you get into both, congratulations, THEN you can truly have the luxury of choosing which one.</p>
<p>You can make as many threads as you want about this, but you’re never going to be satisfied. So go watch this </p>
<p>[Dan</a> Gilbert asks, Why are we happy? | Video on TED.com](<a href=“http://www.ted.com/talks/dan_gilbert_asks_why_are_we_happy.html]Dan”>http://www.ted.com/talks/dan_gilbert_asks_why_are_we_happy.html)</p>
<p>and then stop worrying so much and enjoy your last year in high school. Harvey Mudd and Berkeley are both great schools. Your happiness is not going to hinge on whether you choose one or the other - it is going to be predicated on how you choose to make the most of wherever you end up at.</p>