<p>Getting to Mudd from the East Coast isn’t bad. Fly out of Boston and change in Phoenix to go to Ontario Airport. Ontario is small and FAST to get in/out.
I would tend to think that Mudd’s program would be stronger than Williams, in part because the incoming students will tend to be stronger math students. Mudd has a larger group of very strong math students - one measure would be the Putnam, (a major college math competition). HMC seems to typically field a team about twice as big as Willaims and places higher. (Williams does quite well.)
HMC’s clinic is an interesting difference too.</p>