<p>Sam Lee,
I cannot stress how absolutely wrong you are about Harvey Mudd. You can’t judge a school by its website like that. The timing of this argument is funny because today, the website is going to start to be overhauled. Mudders have been complaining about the ineffectual website for awhile now. Numerous people have volunteered to overhaul it, but the administration was opposed to that for some reason.</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.eng.hmc.edu/EngWebsite/DeptHbook/05-06AdvisingHandbook.pdf[/url]”>http://www.eng.hmc.edu/EngWebsite/DeptHbook/05-06AdvisingHandbook.pdf</a>
This document clearly indicates the intention of the engineering department.</p>
<p>Does it not say anything when I tell you that EVERY Mudder (core) must take Computer Science, Biology, Chemistry, Physics (Sp. Rel/Quant. Mech)/Classical Mech., and a whole slew of Math**? What does it say when EVERY single student at HMC knows the basics of computer programming and Java? I’m a frosh engineer, and already, I have restriction mapped a bacteria plasmid DNA. I’m not a physicist but I will know how relativity will affect the charge of an electron. Not everyone is an engineer, but they know the Diff Eq’s behind mechanical/electronic resonance and such.</p>
<p>** math= Calc of single/complex var., Lin. Al. I, Diff Eq I, MultiVar Calc I,Lin. Al. II, Diff Eq II, MultiVar Calc II, Prob/Stats. </p>
<p>The engineering major is considered the hardest major at Mudd. Before they reduced the number of credits awarded for each class, you had to overload for 2 years to meet the minimum requirements for an engineering degree. </p>
<p>I chose Mudd over every other school because I genuinely wanted my @$$ to get kicked. Mudd has lived up to this expectation with flying colors.</p>