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Actually, Mudd's $10k scholarship is for students w/750+ on SAT-I Math and Math Level II, 700+ on CR and W, and top 10% ranking, regardless of whether you attended a nationally known math/science powerhouse or a crummy HS. They do offer additional full-ride scholarships in an effort to bring more women and underrepresented groups to campus. There are also some departmental scholarships as well, but those tend to be small, one-time awards.
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<p>This is a true. A lot of Mudd students (30-40%) receive this merit grant.</p>
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Also, I don't know enough about it myself, but I'd encourage people to ask the experts who're going to Mudd right now about what the "general engineering degree" is like - a school reputed for the rigor Mudd is likely isn't going to let students just "spread themselves" thin and become good at nothing.</p>
<p>I do often wonder what it'd have been like to go to Mudd.
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<p>Well I am in Mudd engineering, so you can see my post above. Most Mudd engineers going into industry would like to be a leader some day (aside: one of the main goals of HMC is to educate well-rounded engineers and scientists who have the technical know-how, but also the humanities skills, to be effective leaders). As a manager within engineering, its obviously useful to know many different fields. Our classes are all at a very fast pace and I don't think anything has been watered down. We take the same classes in different engineering disciplines that engineering students majoring in those disciplines would take at other schools. When I've compared our courses to analogous courses at other schools, I've always found ours cover just as much material, if not more. Also, a very high percentage of Mudd engineers go onto grad school, where they specialize their degree further.</p>
<p>Mudd has a very unique way of removing overlapped material between different engineering fields and teaching it all at once in a powerful and generalized way. All of our engineers have to go through 3 courses of systems engineering and are encouraged to take more. These three courses alone are enough to get our engineers a systems engineering job at almost any company (one professor, who is a top engineer in a private space exploration company, was certain we could know enough after only two courses). I didn't really like systems engineering at first, but now I absolutely love it because of how much you can apply it to all disciplines of engineering. Also, all engineers take 3 semesters of clinic, which are real projects for great companies. You get to pick your clinic project based on your area of interest within engineering. I'm interested in mechanical engineering and my project is modeling shocks in spacecraft panels for a Californian satellite producer. </p>
<p>So I don't really understand how we are spreading ourselves too thin and becoming good at nothing...</p>