Hello! I’ve been reading that a lot of students often don’t have time to do their extracurricular activities at Harvey Mudd (ex. choir, dance, theatre) because of the busy coreload, and I was wondering if someone could affirm or counter this ideology. I myself am interested in playing a sport, but the CMS athletics roster is dominated by Claremont McKenna/Scripps and only has a few players from Harvey Mudd on the team, which leads me to think that I wont have enough time to play sports in college…
Thank you in advance!
It is challenging, no doubt, but can be done. You need to be ready to really work hard, though.
Do you know anyone that does athletics add Mudd and how their work ethic is?
Everyone at Mudd (who stays at Mudd) has a killer work ethic to start with. The athletes especially need it, given the time commitment for their sport. I know my kid’s friends whin were athletes were really busy.
@icef1ame In case you’re interested, about 1/2 of the CMS competitive swim team is composed of Mudd students. I don’t know any of them personally, but with good time management, it’s definitely doable.
@CCThunderfin I was trying to get recruited for water polo (20 CMK 1 HMC) and the coach was asking someone on his team (I’m friends with him) about me. He said he’d send me an email but it never happened; I think it’s because I’m HMC and not CMK. Sent the coach 2 emails myself already.
@icef1ame Hm, have you tried calling? Probably can get a quicker and better answer as compared to sending emails.
I got “recruited” for swimming (played a bit of waterpolo in HS, wasn’t very good haha), but the coach told me that he doesn’t have as much weight as I’m applying to HMC (I’m sure if I was applying to CMC, it’d be a bit more of a guarantee, similar to NESCAC schools). It definitely helps, and if I get in that’ll be why, but it’s more a major EC than an outright hook. Are you a junior or a senior?.. if you’re a senior and he didn’t tell you he’s supporting you, then it’s probably too late-- I don’t know how water polo works, but in general coaches try to get most of their commits for ED, so he would’ve been talking to you the last couple of months.
@CCThunderfin I’m a senior but I was thinking maybe he’d recruit me for HMC’s EDII
@icef1ame I do know that at least for swimming, the coach told me he gets recruits ED2 and RD (though I’d assume the RD recruits are usually a bit stronger applicants to be admitted in the RD round). It’s better trying now than not contacting the coach and always wondering what would’ve happened, so if I were you I’d give the WP coach a call ASAP. Let me know how it goes!