@MayiqueCynthia You know that 65% of whole Canadian population lives just over the border from New York to Maine. Almost the entire balance lives over Washington state. Canadian kids invariably apply close to those areas.
So yes, keep options open in the south and Midwest. Clemson, Alabama, Purdue would be an especially good place to apply for engineering and should at the top of your list. Rose-Hulman is another basically a peer to Mudd.
Full disclosure: I have a (very happy) D at Pitzer, and another D who is a (very happy) Tufts alum.
Pitzer versus Scripps: Scripps is the easier admit. Pitzer admissions is very holistic, and is not just about your stats. Why not apply to both?
Are you really sure about Mudd? It is a brutally difficult STEM school (my D2 is a junior there, so I have a good idea what it is like). My kid loves it, but the workload is crazy, and you probably won’t get a lot of focus on the environmental side. I feel like you are dazzled by the Condortium, and aren’t really understanding how different the schools are. I don’t see “fit with Mudd” in your posts so far.
Hi everyone it’s been a while! So i did end up applying to ED II to Harvey Mudd after visiting during my December break. I got deferred, but I am still really keen on going there if they would accept me in the regular round!
Im planning to write a letter of interest to them. I’ve sent the admissions counsellor an email of interest last month after seeing my deferral interest, but I thought a formal letter would be more professional. Has anyone done something like this before? Should I keep to to one page? And should I focus more on the achievement or the impacts it had towards me? how many activities should i withold to? from my communication with the admissions it seems that they don’t really want any extra stuff, but would be happy to look over it. Would updating them about my consistency in the senior choir and other activities that might not seem “too impressive” in CC standards blow me off?
I want to get my letter done tonight–any advice would be greatly appreciated. thanks so much!
“Keep in mind, Pitzer has the most Fulbright scholars per capita.”
Just to clarify, that is in large part because a much higher percentage of Pitzer students apply for Fulbrights than any other school. Last year, 108 Pitzer students applied for Fulbrights, more than twice as many as any other liberal arts college. 19 Pitzer students got a Fulbright.
In contrast, the next two schools - Smith got 15 Fulbrights out of 38 applicants and Amherst got 13 Fulbrights out of 40 applicants. Heck, Scripps may have done the best of all - 11 Fulbrights out of only 28 applicants.
Not a knock on Pitzer. They are very smart to push the Fulbright applications the way they do.
Interesting that Scripps and Smith, both women’s colleges, have virtually identical success rates of just under 40%.