<h1>SAT Critical Reading Score: 700 or above</h1>
<h1>SAT Writing Score: 700 or above</h1>
<h1>SAT Math Score: 750 or above SAT</h1>
<h1>Math 2 Subject Exam Score: 750 or above</h1>
<h1>High school rank within the top 10% *</h1>
<p>CR: 730
W: 770
M: 800
M2: 800</p>
<p>Rank in top 10%, but no merit award in the acceptance packet. Any reason why this would be?</p>
<p>This is very interesting. I would call the admissions office to find out.</p>
<p>The only reason I can possibly think of is if I wasn't actually in the top 10%. I'm almost positive I am, but I've never actually seen my rank. Although I don't think I would have even gotten into Harvey Mudd (along with UNC OOS and UVA with Echols) if I wasn't top 10%, so I'm baffled.</p>
<p>If it turns out I'm not, then I'm VERY happy about even getting accepted. But this is curious.</p>
<p>Though I can't exactly claim to be an expert, I'd say it was probably just a clerical error.
Try to call the admissions office and try to get in touch with someone? That would probably be the best thing to do.</p>
<p>No, I think bigmrpig is off on his qualification. I think it means top 10% of the matriculants, not your class rank.</p>
<p>sriharifez: "I think bigmrpig is off on his qualification. I think it means top 10% of the matriculants, not your class rank."</p>
<p>Nope, he is correct. This is from the HMC website on the merit scholarship: It is "your responsibility to contact your counselor or Registrar to request documentation to verify that you?re within the top 10 percent of your graduating class. . . . Being in the top 10 percent of your class is a rigid requirement for this award." <a href="http://tinyurl.com/2uros5%5B/url%5D">http://tinyurl.com/2uros5</a></p>
<p>oh, huh. sorry.</p>
<p>Just a disclaimer: The <em>only</em> knowledge I have on this topic comes from reading the link posted by stevedad...</p>
<p>But nowhere on that page does it say all applicants meeting the given requirements will receive a merit award; it says only that they will be considered.</p>
<p>In practice, perhaps all qualified students DO receive the award, but Mudd's 25-75% SATs are something around 1380-1560, and this, to me, suggests that many more students are eligible for merit money than actually receive it (knowing also that a significant number of students graduated top 10% and that 780-800 on an SAT2 math exam is not at all uncommon, so this just leaves the SAT writing score up in the air). Without a "Meet these guidelines and we'll give you money" guarantee, any number of explanations could be given (highly qualified pool, capped number of awards, etc.). That said, you're obviously a great applicant, and it never hurts to call. Good luck!</p>
<p>Admissions screwed over my friend who is currently a freshman here. Last semester when we were talking about the scholarship he realized he had all the requirements but never got it. He talked to admissions and they said they never received his rank, but then he talked to his school and they said they definitely sent out his rank (he was ranked 2nd). Now admissions won't give him the scholarship even if he can prove that he was ranked 2nd and that the school did send it out.</p>
<p>Hmmmm..... I should have gotten this... oh well, I'm not going to HMC anyways...</p>
<p>Thanks for the tip, all. I'll make sure I get it when I apply in 2 years :)</p>
<p>lol i met those requirements but i didnt even get accepted to HMC</p>
<p>Sorry to hear that, tripNip.</p>
<p>Of course, you know college admissions is about far more than test scores, especially at a school with only 20-something % admittance rate. At HMC they look at a lot more -- to see if you'd fit at the school, for example.</p>
<p>What if your school doesn't rank?</p>
<p>Lots of schools don't rank. However, many GCs are willing to write a letter approximating one's class rank, which HMC will accept for purposes of the scholarship. No worries.</p>