<p>" Our CS department is top notch - in the 3 years we have participated in the Southern California Programming Contest, we have routinely beat the likes of UCSD, UCLA and Harvey Mudd, losing only to Caltech (no explanation really needed there). "</p>
<p>USC is great. However, note that you do not routinely beat HMC in this competition. In fact the only team that routinely beats HMC is Caltech and often UCSD.</p>
<p>HMC beats USC:
2007-2008
no data for 2006-2007
2000-2006
1995-1999</p>
<p>USC beats HMC:
1999-2000</p>
<p>So I’d say beating HMC once does not equate to “routine beat”. Also, note that HMC will send about 9 people to that competition (the major only has 40 people in it or so)…</p>
<p>Source:
[ACM</a> Southern California Regional Programming Contest](<a href=“http://www.socalcontest.org/current/index.shtml]ACM”>SoCal Region ICPC)</p>