<p>When should we expect to get our notification letters for early decision? I live in New Jersey, so I'm worried that the mail will take several days. I don't want to wait through the weekend! Someone mentioned calling the office of admissions last year. Is this frowned on? Can I call on Friday (the 15th) afternoon after the mail comes, or would it be best to wait till Monday?</p>
<p>Best of luck to all who applied!</p>
<p>My Daughter just got the letter today!! She's in!!! (she's doing a happy dance.)</p>
<p>Her letter was post marked yesterday. We live very close to HMC so our mail only took one day.</p>
<p>Good Luck!</p>
<p>Congratulations!!!</p>
<p>Happy dances are great. She's accepting, right?</p>
<p>Congratulations to your daughter! It must feel great. According the time it took for the last letter to come from Mudd (3 days after the post date, but one of them was a Sunday) I guess I can assume mine will come tomorrow or the day after. I wonder if I were to call tomorrow, if they would tell me. I need to get to finishing my Jan 1st applications otherwise.</p>
<p>RocketDA: yes, of course she's accepting!!! She's very stoked. HMC was far and away her #1 choice of school. It had everything she wanted. I'm so happy for her that she can quit the whole application process now. She's drafting her application withdrawal letters to her other schools now. Unfortunately she had to submitt applications to most of her other safeties already, but, as I told her, insurance does cost money. I, myself, was not too keen on HMC when she first told me it was her #1 choice; (hey, I was premed. The idea of no grade inflation freaks me out) but as I learned about it I had to agree that, based on who she was, it was THE place for her. I'm glad to admission committee agreed with me.</p>
<p>Pencilpusher: I'm very happy for your daughter. I, like her, applied ED to Mudd... and obviously accepted. It felt really great sending my "no thank you" letters to MIT and Caltech. While MIT simply did not respond, Caltech sent a letter back saying "We're sorry you feel that Caltech is not the place for you. Good luck on your future endeavours....blah blah blah."</p>
<p>Get ready for it. :) Also, you were premed, is your D premed as well? </p>
<p>I'm glad to hear that she (and maybe you) got a great holiday gift. (Personally, getting into Mudd was part of my 18th bday wish... but shush, don't tell anyone.) I remember people asking me what I wanted most around the holiday time... I said, "I already got an incredible gift this year." It was true, learning about Mudd and getting in was the best thing that happened to me up to that point.</p>
<p>While your D should maintain descent grades, I'd suggest "taking a break" from normal academic life if at all possible until Mudd. I don't mean forget about learning, but I'd say that now would be the time for your daughter to do those things that she has never had time for in HS for two reasons:
1. New experiences are good.
2. You'll get enough academia when you come to Mudd and you'll need to be ready 110%.</p>
<p>But, you know, there is always the possibility that your D is already doing stuff that she loves and life just feels like a huge break for her anyways. If that's the case, well I'm jealous. ;-P</p>
<p>Oh, one more thing. I'm good friends with one (of the two) orientation directors for your D's class. She is absoluting awesome. You and your D have a lot to look forward to!</p>
<p>WELCOME TO MUDD!</p>
<p>My daughter is most definetly NOT premed. Her dad and I are both MD's so she knows what it's like, I suppose. Personally, I think HMC is a really, really bad place to go if you are pre-med. Getting into medical school is all about the grades. Plus the bio there seemed very weird to me, as a bio major in college myself. Way more "mathy" than my bio classes were, and I went to a college that at the time was considered one of the top, if not the absolute top bio departments in the country. So I advised D that if she went to HMC she needed to understand that med school was not likely going to be an option if she ever changed her mind. She says she's OK with that.</p>
<p>She's totally into computers, and has been forever. I expect she will stay that way. She doesn't really like bio very much.</p>
<p>Her 18th BD was last Friday. This is a belated BD present for her. Plus a friend was accepted ED to Pomona yesterday as well so life is good.</p>
<p>where does the friend live that was accepted ed at pomona yesterdaY?</p>
<p>Parentus: he lives down the street.</p>
<p>sorry, what city?</p>
<p>Has anyone else heard?</p>
<p>Mine came in the mail Wednesday. I seriously didn't expect to get in...it really feels strange to have it all over with, but it's great.</p>
<p>Plus, I don't have to finish the Stanford essays - they were killing me.</p>
<p>I got my letter today... I was deferred. I wasn't even aware that Mudd offered deferral, so I suppose that's a good sign.... Plus they want me to call and ask how I can improve my candidacy for RD. I guess I'll see what happens and do the best I can this semester.</p>
<p>tmbg37,</p>
<p>When we visited HMC over the summer, the admissions folks told us that if you weren't accepted ED, you would not move to the RD pool. This must be a change in policy! Glad they are willing to talk to you and give you a chance to spruce up your recommendations, info, etc. From what I hear, not too many schools are giving feedback on decisions these days, so it's nice (and consistent with everything I've heard/seen about Mudd) that folks are willing to work with you.</p>
<p>Good luck!</p>
<p>Good luck tmbg37. I'm sure that there's plenty of information on these forums to help. I don't think admissions would deffer you if they didn't think you had a reasonable chance.</p>
<p>Got my letter today... accepted! No happy dance but I was still very excited. My twin brother got into Brown yesterday, so things were a bit tense at my house. I let everyone know by playing a resounding "Hallelujah" chorus from Handel's Messiah. I'm so glad that I don't have to finish my other apps-I was really procrastinating!</p>
<p>I got accepted today! I'm really excited; Mudd is such an awesome place. I'm glad I got in because I decided not to do the Stanford app which was due yesterday. Sorry to hear you got deferred tmbg37, but you should consider yourself lucky that they believe in you enough not to have rejected you. You may still have a chance so call them as soon as possible.</p>
<p>Congratulations to all who are going!</p>
<p>I'm trying to wrack my brain to remember what the admissions people said specifically about ED and deferrals. If memory serves, they implied that they generally did not defer people but I don't think they said a deferral was completely out of the question. If that's correct, then it's not that they have changed their policy (say based on having an unusually high number of ED applicants) but that there is something unusual about your situation. I would think that is a more positive situation to be in than the standard deferral that other top schools do. </p>
<p>Personally, I think deferments are very hard to deal with mentally. There's nothing worse than uncertainty, is there?</p>
<p>Hi all. Congrats to all those who got accepted, and good luck for tmbg37.</p>
<p>I applied ED as well, but I still haven't received the letter from HMC yet. Can anyone who got accepted tell me when the letter was post marked? I know it takes about 10 days for the letter from HMC to reach my place (in beijing), but I am anxious and I want to know when the letter is going to arrive! I can't wait much longer and I am considering calling admissions on Monday if I don't get the mail by then. </p>
<p>Thanks and good luck to everyone.</p>
<p>I can't imagine the 10 day wait - it must be terrible. My letter was post marked on December 12th. The envelope was quite large, so it should be easy to know the outcome when you get it.</p>
<p>Good luck!</p>
<p>Congratulations to everyone as well.</p>
<p>Did anyone else qualify for the Harvey Mudd Merit Award? I totally forgot about it until I saw that I had qualified for it in my letter - 10k a year ain't too bad, added to what I might get from National Merit.</p>