<p>Anyone else get on the alternate list?</p>
<p>Me.</p>
<p>Int’l student from India. 2130 SAT. Full FA applicant.</p>
<p>Accepted my spot five minutes after I got the letter. It’s all good : )</p>
<p>me too 
hopefully they have an unexpectedly low yield rate this year though it’s a very thin hope</p>
<p>Does anyone know how many people were offered a spot on the alternate list and how many of them accepted? Historically they say it is about 250 who choose to remain on the list. Did everyone get yesterday’s “alternate list request” email? Sounds like they might possibly not have gotten their yield and will be going to their alternate list on May 6th! We’ll be keeping our fingers crossed and hoping for the best.</p>
<p>When you say that if HMC needs to use the WL, it will go to it on may 6, do you mean either:
-on may 6 they announce they have gone to the WL and offers of admission are made relatively soon after</p>
<p>or </p>
<ul>
<li>on may 6 they announce that they intend to use the WL this year as they overestimated their yield and still have to choose who they’ll offer admission to.</li>
</ul>
<p>I am aware that the phrasing would suggest the 2nd of the 2 options, but people don’t always use terms strictly.</p>
<p>Also, if the second case is true then does anybody have an idea of roughly how long it will take for them to make the offers?</p>
<p>One of you can have my spot. Good luck to you all! I hope many of you can go to a school as awesome as Mudd!</p>
<p>a friend’s son has been offered a spot off the WL, so they are using it this year. I have no other details.</p>
<p>I was just offered a spot off the waitlist! Very excited to say the least. As long as the money is there I’m hoping to attend. They have told me they would like a decision by this coming Thursday (the 12th), so I assume they will be going to the next round of people then. Good luck to anyone on the waitlist! This was a really pleasant surprise - I had read that in previous years Mudd has taken very few people, if any, off their waitlist.</p>
<p>Mudd is not as well known as other top tier STEM schools and so the applicant pool is largely self-selective. As a result HMC yield is usually very high and getting off the WL is close to impossible.</p>
<p>However last year they underestimated their yield and this caused serious problems for the administration.So this year they deliberately underenrolled so they could have better control over yield with the WL (or so my college counselor insists).</p>
<p>Anyways congrats mcmannigan, you got into an amazing school.I am on the hmc WL too so if you have any doubts please have sympathy for the mortals still on the WL.</p>
<p>Thank you, Tasinari! Best of luck to you. I am really hoping to go to HMC, but it does sound like they are using their waitlist more than in previous years, so you’ve definitely got a chance! It’s tough for my family because we have to decide between JHU and Mudd for engineering. Obviously, Mudd is the better choice strictly for that, but it’s complicated since I live in Maryland and my parents don’t want me so far away, etc. Anyway, it’s tough but both are great choices, and I’m sure you’ll go to a great school either way, too.</p>
<p>If I were you I would still choose HMC unless long distance is really that big of an issue, though. JHU is outstanding for bio and medical programs but HMC is more centered around physics/chem/math/CS.<br>
Plus you can’t beat the community and teacher contact at mudd. (Although the campus is like 3 blocks large :S)</p>
<p>Do you think that Harvey Mudd will have more female students than male students
again this year? It sounds like the students admitted off the wait list are male.
Any ideas?</p>
<p>They admitted 14 more women than men (314 vs 300), but I heard the women’s yield is lower (check me on that…). But they did go out of their way to try and get as many women as possible–I know they had their own special dinner thing one day, and I think they might have had their transportation to ASP paid for (don’t take my word on that).</p>
<p>I’m really hoping there’s a good bit of diversity, if not more women. Provides an advantage over most other engineering schools and, <em>cough</em>, the ratio would be “favorable.”</p>
<p>Dr. Klawe deserves accolades for all the work she has done to bring more women into the STEM field, and especially to HMC. I believe in future years she will receive the proper recognition for this.</p>
<p>This is completely off-topic, but whenever I hear Dr. Klawe mentioned I can’t help but think of a gloved hand stroking a cat, yelling “I’ll get you next time, Gadget! Next time!”</p>
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<p>Heh heh. Inspector Gadget.</p>
<p>I do agree with you that in the past the yield for men was higher than
for women. Was this true last year?</p>
<p>It is quite possible that the yields have changed over the last two years.
Last year and it seems this year Harvey Mudd has tried quite hard to balance
the number of men and women. I expect that this is in many ways a positive change.
This has resulted in fewer male admits compared
to the past. This would also likely drop the yield rate for men because these
fewer male admits are likely to include a larger percentage of men who
receive admission to other top schools. The increase in the number of women
admits is also likely to increase the yield rate as some women who would
not have been admitted in the past are now admitted and for many of these
new admits Harvey Mudd would be the strongest school that they are admitted to.</p>
<p>thyra briggs called me 10 mins ago. I’m in!!! Definitely going to HMC in fall 2011.</p>
<p>I got the same call as tasinari! They’ve offered me a place. I am not sure right now if I’ll take it, but everything I’ve heard about HMC was superb. It’s a tough choice; I’ll wait to receive the financial aid information.</p>