<p>“There is one thing that tipped me off. I was sitting in class (still during high school) wondering what kind of people might be at Mudd. I sat there and thought “Well, everyone will be like the handful of other people here sitting in calc III with me.” Then I realized that I didn’t really care for all but one or two of the 10 people, and that all of my friends were majoring in art, English, Japanese, etc.”</p>
<p>Muddslinger, this is the first time I’ve heard someone else say this, so thank you! I’m in my senior year, and it’s the first time that I’ve taken mostly math/science courses. A few weeks in, I realized that I actually actively disliked a lot of the kids in all of my classes, and that the people I’m close friends with were all off somewhere else doing History or languages or something. More and more now, I’m realizing that it’s going to have to be a big factor in the admissions process, although I’m still hoping that all the math/science people at my school are somehow a nonrepresentative sample.</p>
<p>//tangent</p>