<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>