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Colleges and Universities A-Z Harvey Mudd College
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<p>Oh yea, I was just thinking about it today, and I have more to my list.</p>

<p>USC pros
-can double major/minor in 2 completely different areas w/ the possibility of getting a scholarship for grad school at graduation ($15,000 I think)
-with all the APs and college courses I took, I may be able to enter USC with a sophomore standing
-with departmental honors, you can get the word "honors" on your diploma and become a LIFETIME member of the college fellows</p>

<p>Uh oh, looks like it's USC.</p>

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<p>I thought USC didn't take many AP credits. I must've been wrong.
I'm currently writing to various graduate schools, engineering companies, and pharmacy companies to hear their opinion on HMC. I've so far written to:
Harvard, Yale, USC, UCSF, Mizzou (just to see if anybody in my small hometown has heard of it), Princeton, Boeing, and Pfizer. Where else??</p>

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<p>Actually, there aren't that many university-wide exemptions, but the specific college you're attending (Letters, Arts and Sciences, engineering, etc) will give you AP credits under the table.</p>

<p>You might want to try UCSD. Merck, too.</p>

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<p>HMC Pro: 6-7 year PhD.</p>

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<p>That's too bad. I was looking forward to trying to figure out who you were among the frosh next year.</p>

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<p>Frosaken the reason they dont give AP credit is becuase they basically expect students to have fulfilled those courses by freshmen year.</p>

<p>EX First year physics is not Mechanics/EE its Quantum/relativity (i believe). You do the 1st year in 1 month.</p>

<p>Also, the reason Sophmore standing is good is NOT becuase you are actually a sophmore but you are given sophmor seniority over other students so that you can choose classes first. In larger schools this is important, at a small school like HMC its not becuase well its a small school and you dont need to rush to class signups.</p>

<p>The Graduate Scholarship, many sneiors that I talked to got full rides to their graduate schools (Caltech, Berkely, MIT). Tuition + 20k living stipend. Basically they get a salary to go to school for 3-4 more years. No need for 15k scholarship. </p>

<p>As for double majoring, you actually can Double Major at HMC. Just not within HMC itself. You can take a secondary major at other schools, but HM only offers the general engi degree w/ specialty. But that hasnt stopped HMC from having the TOP PHD gain rate out of any other school.</p>

<p>And dncrditzx22, Boeing was one of the companies sponsoring a Clinic that I saw while I was at HMC. Id say they have "heard" of HMC.... Oh, and CMMIT was also sponsoring a clinc so there you go for east coast.</p>

<p>As for going to a school though, I like to compare academics to sports. So here it goes.</p>

<p>My school has the #2 wrestling program in the nation. Not becuase its easy, but becuase it is DAMN hard to get through the training. Its rough and hard. But it builds them into amazing wrestlers. They might wish that when they were doing the work that they do at a school that was less strenous in their program, but in the end they crush schools without a contest. A 36 year county winstreak (not county championships I mean just Wins for 36 years...think opposite of Caltech streak). They dont lose to anyone becuaes theyve trained so hard.</p>

<p>So in the end you get more out of it becuase you can put so much into it. HMC is a REALLY REALLY hard school. But thats what you need to become much better academically. If you arent tested HARD then you dont build up into awesome students without a lot of serious personal dedication. HMC is a hard program, for many its just not what they can handle. But for those willing to push through it offers some really great and awesome rewards.</p>

<p>:( b/c I wont be seeing you in the fall :(</p>

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<p>yea I remembered Boeing from the clinic thing, I just couldn't think of any other big-name companies that WEREN'T on that list. (Which I guess is a good sign too, right?)
"b/c I won't be seeing you in the fall" -- is that directed at me, or at For5aken, or at both of us?</p>

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<p>Wait...what was that about the 6-7 year PhD?</p>

<p>And about the graduate schools: I'm not planning on becoming an engineer or mathematician; I'm planning to go to med school or pharm school, so Berkeley, MIT, and Caltech don't fit me. I was looking more on the lines of UCSF and USC...</p>

<p>And another thing, I hinted to my parents that I wanted to go to HMC, and they went ballistic. Not a good sign.</p>

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<p>It was directed at Forsaken, but ya if you want to go to med school HMC is not the place to be</p>

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<p>hmm... I kinda figured HMC would be OK for prepharm, since it doesn't really matter that much what kind of an education you get for prepharm, so long as you make sure you get the specific classes required to enter pharmacy.</p>

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<p>The only thing that might hold you back for med school (or pharm school, or really any grad school for that matter) if you decide on Mudd is GPA. Other than that, Mudd prepares you well. And there are people who manage to get great GPAs here, so if you love Mudd for everything else, don't reject it for that.</p>

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<p>if/when you go to grad school, many hmc alums gain accelerated degrees.</p>

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<p>How many people do you actually know who get a full ride to graduate school? And what about a 6-7 year PhD?</p>

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<p>For5aken: I just got into the TAP program @ USC... now I'm even more torn b/t USC & HMC, b/c that was my final deciding factor, but since I hadn't heard from TAP yet, I figured I'd been rejected, but apparently not. I called asking about finaid, so if it is covered...aah idk! If not, well then HMC. SO CONFUSING.</p>

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<p>Wow...you got in TAP. I didn't bother applying because I was lazy. That's amazing...</p>

<p>What did you wanna ask about finaid? Maybe I can answer (or maybe not).</p>

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<p>krayongirl, i do not know many alums personally. i'm sorry. i do know, however, that an engineer/friend down my hall got into berkeley, caltech, mit, and stanford (with $170k fellowship) for grad. he is has chosen stanford.</p>

<p>let's see...the is a girl who is amazing with robotics that is going to pretty much anywhere on a full ride or close to it.</p>

<p>there is also a girl in the chemistry program that got into everywhere with some good money.</p>

<p>i don't know the status of too many people, sorry. (i'm a frosh and people are JUST hearing/deciding so word hasn't gotten around yet)</p>

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<p>GRad schools (the better ones) usually pay accepted students money becuase the schools want their name on the work that said grad students are likely to do.</p>

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<p>At UMKC, I had my merit-based scholarships revoked because I went in for their 5-yr pharmacy program. I want to make sure USC won't make any exceptions for me receiving financial aid because of this TAP thing.</p>

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<p>Why would your merit scholarships (aka the ones you worked hard for) be revoked because you got in a good program? Sounds lame to me.</p>

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<p>UM schools are retarded. Talked to the TAP coordinator--she said no effect on financial aid, but I probably can't get an engineering degree (which I wanted to still get as a back up just in case pharmacy bores me... and with my ADD, it probably will ;) )</p>