<p>“Just how extremely bright do you want your academic peers to be?”</p>
<p>I imagine you’re suggesting that if he wanted them REALLY extremely bright, he’d go to Harvey Mudd? I don’t think that’s well founded at all. Especially if you consider talents outside of science/engineering.</p>
<p>Additionally, I can’t imagine Rice hindering your chances at grad school in comparison to Harvey Mudd. </p>
<p>I see it all coming down to finances and whether you want to go to a school as narrowly focused on science/engineering as Harvey Mudd or a school with a wider variety of people.</p>