<p>I have a couple friends in CMC and a pretty close friend who is in HMC.</p>
<p>Yet, personally, I think the less people I know, the better cuz I really want to start fresh</p>
<p>Good to know I’m not the only one. At least we all will have a chance to become at least somewhat acquainted in the coming months, assuming that any of us will even recognize each other in the real world.</p>
<p>I hadn’t taken the other Claremont schools into consideration. Given the size of my school, it is probable that at least a couple will attempt to go one of them, so maybe I’ll run into one of them at some point.</p>
<p>My son was accepted at HMC - got his letter today. </p>
<p>Stats:</p>
<pre><code>* SAT: 2230 (CR-800, M-800, W-630) 1 Sitting
- SAT II: Math 2-800, Physics-800, Chem-730
- ACT: didn’t take it
- GPA: 3.9/4.0
- Rank: n/a
- AP scores: AP Calc BC - 5
</code></pre>
<p>Subjective</p>
<pre><code>* Essays: apparently good enough!
- Teacher Recs: Very strong
- Counselor Rec: Very strong
- Supplementary Material: None
- Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize): loves science and math, internship last summer at a NASA Center
</code></pre>
<p>Personal</p>
<pre><code>* Location: East Coast
- High School Type: Very small private school
- Ethnicity: half Indian (India) and half caucasian
- Gender: Male
</code></pre>
<p>Other</p>
<pre><code>* Extracurriculars: Programming, math peer tutor, ultimate frisbee, lots of math/physics classes at local colleges
- Awards: Science Fair
- Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?: We’re all so happy!
</code></pre>
<p>Accepted</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>]SAT: 2330 (superscore)
[</em>]SAT II: 800 Math II, 750 Physics, 730 Chemistry
[<em>]ACT: 34
[</em>]GPA: 3.81 UW
[<em>]Rank: 52 of 464
[</em>]Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB): Taking English HL, Chemistry HL, Physics HL, Math SL, and History HL IB tests in May.
[/ul]Subjective[ul]
[<em>]Essays: Good
[</em>]Teacher Recs: Didn’t read, assume were good.
[<em>]Counselor Rec: Also didn’t read, assume was good.
[</em>]Supplementary Material: Nothing
[<em>]Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize): meh
[/ul]Personal[ul]
[</em>]Location: Sammamish, WA
[<em>]High School Type: Highly competitive
[</em>]Ethnicity: White
[<em>]Gender: Male
[/ul]Other[ul]
[</em>]Extracurriculars: Boy Scouting, Tae Kwon Do, JSA (I’m the PNW Webmaster)
[<em>]Awards: Eagle Scout, 2nd Degree Black Belt
[</em>]Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?:[/ul]
This is awesome.</p>
<p>Accepted</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>]SAT: n/a
[</em>]SAT II: Math 2 - 800, Chemistry - 790
[<em>]ACT: 35
[</em>]GPA: 4.0 UW
[<em>]Rank: 1
[</em>]Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB): n/a
[/ul]Subjective[ul]
[<em>]Essays: Pretty good I believe
[</em>]Teacher Recs: Very strong
[<em>]Counselor Rec: Very strong
[</em>]Supplementary Material: Extra recommendation from Dr. Ran Sivron with SSP
[<em>]Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize): None
[/ul]Personal[ul]
[</em>]Location: Midwest
[<em>]High School Type: Small public school
[</em>]Ethnicity: Caucasian
[<em>]Gender: Male
[/ul]Other[ul]
[</em>]Extracurriculars: Quiz bowl, marching band, concert band, jazz band, chamber choir, musical theatre, piano lessons/performances/competitions, math club, science club, boy scouts, NHS
[<em>]Awards: BSA Eagle Scout, various piano competition awards, other music awards, National Merit Semifinalist
[</em>]Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?: I have wanted to go here since the 7th grade! I am so excited that I’ve finally been accepted![/ul]</p>
<p>Congratulations!!</p>
<p>Accepted</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>]SAT: 730 CR / 790 M / 790 W superscored 2310
[</em>]SATII: 800 physics / 780 math2 / 770 chem
[<em>]ACT: N/A
[</em>]GPA: 3.58
[<em>]Rank: N/A
[</em>]Other Tests(AMC,AP,IB): 5s on Physics C: Mech and Calc BC; 4s on Comp Sci AB, USH, Physics C: E&M, and Chem; 3 on French Lang
[/ul]Subjective[ul]
[<em>]Essays: I was pretty happy with my common app and “why Mudd is awesome” essays. My friends told me my main HMC supplement essay was worthwhile reading of its own accord, so I’ll share it with the world: <a href=“http://files.imonger.org/hmc%20supplement%20-%20essay%20star%20trek.doc[/url]”>http://files.imonger.org/hmc%20supplement%20-%20essay%20star%20trek.doc</a>
[li]Teacher Recs: Should have been good; from my physics teacher and junior English teacher. My physics teacher is also a good friend and knows me very well both as a person and a student.[/li][</em>]Counselor Rec: Written by my physics teacher as well, so probably solid.
[<em>]Supplementary Material: Rec from my summer research mentor… no real idea.
[</em>]Hook: I think my physics teacher used something about my age (a year younger than everyone else in my grade) and maturity or my crazy-diverse family tree.
[/ul]Personal[ul]
[<em>]Location: Ann Arbor
[</em>]High School Type: Small, private; some classes not grade inflated as much as others
[<em>]Ethnicity: Caucasian, from Eastern Europe and the Middle East
[</em>]Gender: Male
[/ul]Other[ul]
[<em>]Extracurriculars: Main one was Science Olympiad, where I’ve been elected a captain for 2 years. Also National Ocean Science Bowl and being elected senior class secretary. I think that’s all I put down on the common app…
[</em>]Awards: NMSF, a number of French competition awards, and a large number of science olympiad medals. Also 2nd place NOSB team at regionals. And the stupid AP Scholar with Distinction - yay, I paid The College Board a ridiculous amount of money to take their ridiculous exams, and they give me a ridiculous certificate!!!111!!
[*]Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?:[/ul] Very, very happy! After the entire week of waiting nervously (which immediately followed rejection from Caltech) this was such a relief.</p>
<p>your essay was quite brilliant
loved it</p>
<p>Congratulations to everyone that got accepted. 
I just was wondering how many of you who got accepted did the interview with HMC? I unfortunentily found out late about the interview so I didn’t do one for HMC so I’m hoping it doesn’t hurt my chances too much.</p>
<p>The essay by firstdude is entertaining but also nonsensical. There is nothing is the history of humankind which would remotely suggest that his version of reality is even remotely possible. As much as he dislikes capitalism, it has proved more successful than any other economic system. Sure there are inequalities and injustices, but your need to find utopia generally leads to people placing their faith in false prophets and madmen who create much more misery than the system they replaced. Unfortunately, there are countless examples of this throughout history. If you look at people in large organizations where the profit motive does not exist (government organizations), they are generally less productive and increasingly demoralized by the unwillingness of the organization to recognize (measure) or reward their efforts. Firstdude, I hope in your life you will not be blinded by dogma and keep an open mind about all the things you have yet to experience.</p>
<p>AHA! I have succeeded, in making people think after reading it.</p>
<p>^^
I do agree with parent57
But regardless of its possibility, it was indeed a well put out essay with pretty concrete events to back up.
The essay was worthwhile to understand what you think of.</p>
<p>
Agree, at least with the latter part. I’m thinking maybe history wasn’t a strong subject at his high school. It’s interesting to see such easy dismissal of “brutality” and “bloody revolution” paired with the position that recreational hunting and fishing should be banned completely. I also look forward to the reception a physicist will receive from economists on his offer to run the world economy by computer, thus eliminating corruption from the system and allowing “every individual” to “pursue whatever they want… without needing to be concerned with paying bills.”</p>
<p>
Don’t confuse reactions with “making people think.” If what your audience thinks (for example) is, “sheesh, what a nutter,” that may not be an indicator of your success. But you may be happy to know that you’ll find plenty of kindred spirits in the student body at Mudd, and elsewhere in academia.</p>
<p>Apologies for going further off topic. Congrats again to those with ED acceptances! Never seen such a Mudd presence on CC, or maybe vice versa.</p>
<p>“never seen such a Mudd presense on CC”</p>
<p>because the class of 14’ is nerdier than ever. : )</p>
<p>I’m not trying to attack the essay or anything (in fact this essay is probably better than what I can write haha) but is it just me or did that essay seem more like a report with a few opinions here and there than a personal essay?
The concluding pargraph has this sentence in it:</p>
<p>“Under this system, every individual is free to pursue whatever they want, as long as it harms no one, without needing to be concerned with paying bills”
Who would sweat their backs to grow your rice?</p>
<p>“As a future physicist, I hope to be able to work with economists to develop and implement algorithms that would allow an economy to be run entirely by computer – the only way to assuredly prevent corruption. At the very least, I would like to use an advanced degree to lend my arguments greater credence.”
Why physicist then? Why not economics, financial mathematics, computer science, or pure mathematics? </p>
<p>And somehow being a PhD in physics will make the citizens of America believe your comments about economics??</p>
<p>Funny, from my perspective this was much less formal than a lot of stuff I write for school, and teachers have always told me my writing is too informal…</p>
<p>I think it just demonstrates part of the wide range of styles that can work in an application essay. They’re not like SAT essays, thank goodness.</p>