Harvey Mudd, UChic, Harvard, or CMU?

Applying to College
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<p>chemistry grads in the annual report:
<a href=“http://www.chem.hmc.edu/www_common/chemistry/Alumni/[/url]”>http://www.chem.hmc.edu/www_common/chemistry/Alumni/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>list of math alum grad schools and stuff:
<a href=“http://www.math.hmc.edu/students.shtml[/url]”>http://www.math.hmc.edu/students.shtml&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>some national awards for physics students:
<a href=“http://www.physics.hmc.edu/awards.php[/url]”>http://www.physics.hmc.edu/awards.php&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>Dont forgot that Mudd won the first AMA Undergrad Math Award this year</p>

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<p>I don’t want to worry too much about graduate school just yet; I think the existentialist view that life is absurd and what will happen will happen might just preside and I liked HMC a lot.</p>

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<p>Have you visited the campus yet? I think now is the best time to do so (I just saw the biggest tour group ever today) and the weather is beautiful. The overlap between Upitt/CMU is busier than ever and you see college kids everywhere you go. </p>

<p>CMU offers the “college” experience and elicits your interests in multiple (top) fields before sending you off via the consistently best ranked and known career network.</p>

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<p>Our son had to make the same decision that you are making (money wasn’t an issue). He choose CMU.

  1. CMU further from home.
  2. Cost to get to LA or Pit was the same-so distance was a factor.
  3. CMU has a grad school component that allows for interaction with older students, grad courses at the undergrad level.
  4. General degree at HMC but a defined degree at CMU. Different philosophies at the schools. No opinion on which is better.
  5. CMU is bigger in student body thus perhaps more courses, professors available. </p>

<p>Lucky you, whatever choice you make, it will be the correct one.</p>

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<p>Harvarrdddddddddddddddddddddddddd</p>

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<p>harvey mudd! full ride… :slight_smile:
cmu’s cool too, but it’s huge. i guess it all depends on what you prefer. judging from the three schools besides harvey mudd, i’d say go with one of the bigger ones. if harvard is going to be a huge financial burden, don’t consider it at all! </p>

<p>harvey mudd! you can still go to harvard for grad school. :)</p>

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<p>As a native Pittsburgher who goes to CMU for music lessons weekly I can honestly attest: the campus atmosphere is quite nice. There’s this beautiful little garden in front of the Fine Arts building with and all kinds of shrubs, hanging willows, stone benches, people studying, etc… no privacy (which is good because that means no PDA) but it still feels like a sanctuary. That’s just what’s great about CMU: everyone always has somewhere to go, but there are still moments to just appreciate =)</p>

<p>And Pittsburgh is just cool. We have our own mini-Heinz Hall with a symphony orchestra, our own ballet troupe (which is also very good) and any number of lesser-known opera houses, playhouses, and so forth… tons of malls, shrubbery conservatories, etc.</p>

<p>Plus you know you want the free tuition =) I love Harvard too, but 25k/yr isn’t worth it. CMU gives you respectability/prestige, a larger setting, and still a great deal.</p>