<p>Does anyone know why the admissioners of HMC do not reply email of applicants? I emailed them 3-4 times since the deadline to reveal a small mistake in my application(about # of hours/day and # of weeks/year on the “Activities” part), but they still haven’t replied me. I had a strange feeling if they are so busy(since other universities when I emailed them at most 2 times to reveal this mistake, they immediately reply me back. All of them accepted my correction), or they had a “hatred” towards me already since once I emailed them, and on the first line, I wrote “Dear Admissioners of Princeton”. Lol</p>
<p>I don’t think they hate you… But that’s pretty funny about the mis-addressing.</p>
<p>ghjk – Some unsolicited advice.
- Check your junk mail folder, and white-list hmc.edu if you haven’t already.
- If you must email someone at Mudd Admission, email the rep for your geographic area. You can find them on the Staff page of the Admission Office’s Web site.
- Email’s not the best way to contact admission offices. A fax or letter is better.
- The mistake you’ve mentioned here is so trivial, you could have gone without mentioning it at all. The hours spent in activities are estimates at best, and WAGs for many students. So I wouldn’t worry or spam them anymore.
- Mudd is way, way better than Princeton. :D</p>
<p>Good luck!</p>
<p>@geek_mom: Thank you very much for your advice! I just glanced at the list of regional admissioner, and didn’t see their emails listed, so I can’t contact my regional adcom personally. By the way, do you know if MUDD will read EVERYTHING we sent? I meant I sent in quite many extra stuffs(2 more recs from 2 research mentors:1 from my mentors at Mathcamp and 1 from a professor at a local university, 2 letters of assessment which I intend to send in as well since they reflect 2 different things toward my math ability and 2 abstracts of my research papers+ an international math competition in Russia where 2 of my proposed problems are selected on the exam). I just hope to give them the best scope of my passion+ability on math, and these things pretty much, I think, distinguish me from the rest. Not sure how much they do though. Maybe you can give me some ideas on these stuffs too?</p>
<p>^
that is quite a lot of extra stuff…</p>
<p>I’m actually not sure if they will read all of that, especially the recs.
They probably will read the research paper and the proposed math competition problem, but I don’t know how many of those recs they will read</p>
<p>PS. and hopefully you’ll come to HMC instead of Princeton</p>
<p>Ha… I’ve found myself getting confused as we muliti-plex through the college investigations. I’ve noticed myself several times saying “Harvey Mellon” and “Carnegie Mudd”. As if my teen did not already have enough reasons to roll his eyes at the parents…</p>
<p>I’m sure that’s a pommon corblem…</p>
<p>It’s probably worse when you do it with your friends’ names…</p>
<p>@maruhan2: Thank you for your information! I really hope they read all of those stuffs though, since they are really important in my application.</p>
<p>Btw, does anyone know how Mudd adcoms consider each application? I meant do they heavily base on score or they want to see passion overweight scores as other top schools?</p>
<p>mychances. net gave me a 95% chance of getting into Harvey Mudd (based on SATs/GPA), but I got waitlisted and eventually denied. Probably my essays.</p>
<p>I’ve heard good things about it, definitely underrated.</p>
<p>From what I’ve read, Mudd is looking for kids that are smart, hard working, and a good fit (via essay, interviews etc). In other words, stats are not the only important factor. Good luck!</p>
<p>colorado_mom I hope you’re right (but I secretly know you are)!</p>
<p>I was at a church dinner tonight and talked with a couple who has heard of Mudd. (To this point the only friends who have heard of it have kids who have applied to a Claremont College). Yay! They are educators who once lived in Orange County. </p>
<p>While it is nice to have somebody recognize the name, it was a good reminder that I will get a lot of blank stares if my kid ends up at Mudd. On the other hand, the East coast schools (other than MIT) often draw blank stares too (except Northeastern in Boston, which they assume means Northwestern in Chicago).</p>