Physics Major at Pomona

RunningBear
Mon, 04 Apr 2011 00:15:19 +0000

SDMom, I visited Mudd twice when I was in my college search process and I ended up not being all that excited by it, partially because of the lack of interest in the humanities. While I did meet and talk to a couple of students who seemed like they enjoyed Hums, one student basically summed it up for me. He said (I paraphrase) “It isn’t that people here don’t like the humanities, and that we wouldn’t normally be interested in them, but that with everything else we need to do it’s hard to care about them.” I felt like that summed up the student body’s attitude fairly well.
Also, when I did my Pomona interview my interviewer mentioned she had taken an Africana studies class at Mudd and that not only was it very easy, but the writing done by the Mudders was pretty bad. Anything she wrote, even if it wasn’t very good, got high marks because it was so much better in comparison. This is, of course, just a story and it might be an exception, but I hope this all helps! Perhaps I’ll see your son on the 18th, I’m also going to be there!