<p>rocketDA - Thanks for your helpful comments. Not brash at all. </p>
<p>My son actually does think he knows that Mudd is what he wants to do. He feels strongly he wants engineering (or maybe math or physics). </p>
<p>I’m the skeptic. l’ll be looking for ways to know that his intuition is right, even though he has not yet endured the rigors of Mudd. At a high school level, he has sought the toughest paths (IB - 4HL and 2SL, and we had to talk him out of adding Bio as a 3rd just-for-fun science this year; lots of band classes and other music endeavors). He has done very well. But college is a whole different ballgame, especially at a school like Mudd.</p>