<p>Here’s how HMC measured the admitted 2013ers’ “abilities” … no math contests listed here, but that doesn’t mean they don’t like to see math contest winners.</p>
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HMC admitted students profile:
So the SAT averages are impressive, but what we like best about the admitted class is the incredible range of talents, interests, and quirks. We love that you care about your communities, your classes, and your TI-89 calculators. Here are just a few of the things about the class of 2013 that make us proud:</p>
<p>You’re on the move. You’ve biked across the United States and across New Zealand. You have a patent pending for a design for a recyclable longboard (Mudd’s most popular form of on-campus transportation). You’ve converted cars to run on vegetable oil. You’ve built an electric truck. You’ve even been in the rodeo.</p>
<p>You’ve got a sense of humor. If winning that Mafia game means face-planting into a plate of spaghetti, so be it. You wear your math club’s gold calculator pendant with pride. You invite your girlfriend to the school dance in giant green letters of fire spelling “PROM” (but being well-mannered, you ask her dad’s permission first). </p>
<p>You care about the world. You’ve started a botball team for underprivileged kids. You’ve founded a microcredit organization. You’ve helped preserve the memories of ALS patients. You’ve taught second and third grade in Honduras (in Spanish). You convinced your state legislature to fund school robotics teams. </p>
<p>You’re athletic. You run, swim, even tap dance. You’re comfortable being the only girl on the high school wrestling team. You figure skate. You twirl batons (with fire!). One of you has even competed as a wrestler in the Beijing Olympics.</p>
<p>You’re creative. Whether it’s performing as a street musician or driving three hours each way for orchestra practice, you pursue your creative interests to the utmost. You study photography, practice calligraphy, and even meld your math and arts interests through mathematical origami.</p>
<p>You’ve got talents we never imagined. You play the mountain dulcimer. You’ve become a novice Buddhist monk. You’ve knitted a Mobius strip and a computer. You fire cannons for historical reenactments. You write murder mysteries. You breed goats. You’ve even built a functioning nuclear fuser in your garage.
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