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<p>Harvey Mudd is entirely STEM-focused in terms of majors. At MIT, about 80% of students major in STEM subjects. Both, however, have extensive humanities and social studies requirements for all students.</p>
<p>You appear to have no admissions safeties. You may want to add more UCs (and perhaps CSUs) if you are a California resident. Rochester (and Lehigh) cannot be safeties due to the fact that they consider “level of applicant’s interest” (a signal that they do not want to be someone’s safety).</p>
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