<p>Personally, I think arguing about the workload is a little pointless. No one knows for sure, unless you did the same classes over again at the other school.</p>
<p>What we CAN definitively say is that Caltech’s results in terms of alumni achievement are substantially and significantly greater than those of Harvey Mudd. Yes, Caltech students are ahead numbers- and experience-wise to start with, but I doubt that 40 SAT points or whatever the difference is accounts for, e.g., the huge disparity between the 32 Nobel Prizes that Caltech has racked up over ~86 years and the 0 that HMC has racked up over ~50 years.</p>