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Nah, I definitely know that this also happens at Mudd (which I really respect, of course) - I should have made that more clear though. The problem was that I had written the whole post without reference to HMC (from “Combining this…” to the end of that paragraph wasn’t there), and then added that later, so it seemed like I was contrasting to Harvey Mudd when I wasn’t intentionally doing so. </p>
<p>I do think it happens to a larger extent at Caltech, but as you said, that’s not the easiest thing to convincingly claim. I guess I’m sort of basing that claim assuming that if students from both schools learn ‘equal amounts of material’ (that could be a fun dispute…), and Mudders learn more from Professors, than Techers must learn more alone / in groups. I realize that’s not the most convincing logic, but this is all kind of hand-wavey and over-generalized anyway.</p>