Official Harvey Mudd College RD Decision Thread

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<p>[ size=+1][ color=green][ b]Decision: [ /b][ /color][ /size]
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[ *] Other stats:
[ /list][ b]Subjective:[ /b][ list]
[ *] Essays:
[ *] Teacher Recs:
[ *] Counselor Rec:
[ *] Hook (if any):
[ /list][ b]Location/Person:[ /b][ list]
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[ *] School Type/Competitiveness:
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[ b]General Comments:[ /b]</p>

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<p>Ahh, you beat me to it :)</p>

<p>I always hate it when I have to get rid of spaces, so here’s a temporary solution:
copy and paste the below into a text editor, and do find and replace to get rid of all the #'s (i.e. replace # with nothing). That should do it :slight_smile:

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moi:</p>

<p>Accepted, wow!</p>

<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>]SAT: 2370 (770M)
[</em>]SAT II: 790 Phys, 760 Math II, 680 French lol.
[<em>]ACT: N/A
[</em>]GPA: unweighted, about 3.8
[<em>]Rank: school doesn’t officially rank
[</em>]Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB): taking 6 ib classes; exams are in may
[/ul]Subjective[ul]
[<em>]Essays: Quite good I think. I did something really cheesy for Why Mudd, involving personification of the college … haha yeah … but I guess it worked!
[</em>]Recs: One good, one great (I assume)
[<em>]Supplementary Material: haha nope
[</em>]Summer Activities: nothing
[<em>]Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize): none!
[/ul]Personal[ul]
[</em>]Location: China
[<em>]High School Type: International school, private
[</em>]Ethnicity: Asian
[<em>]Gender: Female
[/ul]Other[ul]
[</em>]Extracurriculars: nothing science/mathy - MUN, band, theatre, newspaper, some computery stuff.
[<em>]Awards: won something at a science fair a few years back. besides that, nothing
[</em>]Why you think you were accepted/deferred/rejected: Wow. After getting rejected from MIT and Caltech within 23 hours of each other, I assumed I would be going to my safety. I’m pretty surprised.
[*]Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?: I’m happy :slight_smile: Advice: be creative in your essays! That’s the only thing, I think, that could have gotten me in, and apparently they did![/ul]</p>

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<p>**Decision:Accepted **
**Major:Physics **</p>

<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] SAT:2280 (M800/CR760/W720)
[</em>] SAT IIs:Math 2 800 Physics 790
[<em>] ACT:not taken
[</em>] GPA:3.9 out of 4
[<em>] Rank: top 5%
[</em>] Other stats: 5 AP 5s
several citywide awards
Internship at local company
Assistant at local College Physics lab
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] Essays:marvelous! hmmm…I wrote about how I first encountered Quantum Mechanics and gradually fell in love with the whole science of physics!
[</em>] Teacher Recs: don’t know…
[<em>] Counselor Rec:don’t know. Guess good.
[</em>] Hook (if any):none
[/ul]Location/Person:[ul]
[<em>] State or Country: International
[</em>] School Type/Competitiveness: Large Public school
[<em>] Ethnicity: Asian
[</em>] Gender:Female
[/ul]Other Factors:Essays are the most helpful part in my application
General Comments:wow~! :smiley:</p>

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<p>join the facebook group guys!!
and introduce urself in the introduction discussion</p>

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<p>@dawncoming: haha yes essays! what did you write about?
@maruhan2: Facebook is blocked for me :frowning: I’ll have to wait until school starts again and I can use the school’s magical internet connection haha.</p>

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<p>@arbitraryname: just edited the part about essays! </p>

<p>@maruhan2:
Could you post the link here? I’m too lazy to search myself. hoho :D</p>

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<p>Can’t wait to meet both of you. I hope you’re coming to ASW, or Mudd!</p>

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<p>@arbitraryname,
Did u apply for aid?</p>

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<p>@*400# No I did not! Forgot to mention that. Another reason I got accepted I suppose (:</p>

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<p>You know what’s surprising!
I’ve seen a lot of female Asians here, and not so much males. Interesting.</p>

<p>@dawncoming
huh?? don’t you fall in love with quantum physics after being involved in physics, and not the other way around?? lol</p>

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<p>@maruhan: yes! Weird isn’t it? Perhaps that’s why HMC admits me! :slight_smile: I read a book about Heisenberg and his contributions in physics(a long time ago) and I was charmed by Quantum Mechanics since then. Physics Contradicts common sense! that’s why I love this subject</p>

<p>btw are you female Asian too?</p>

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<p>I’m a guy (korean)</p>

<p>You girls are gonna have some competition!! haha just kiddin</p>

<p>Now that I said it… that was ironic cuz it’s just the opposite in HMC</p>

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<p>Accepted
Stats:[ul]
[<em>]SAT:2250(CR720,M780,W750)
[</em>]SAT II:MathI780, MathII 800, Physics 800
[<em>]GPA:4.0
[</em>]Rank:doesn rank(top 1%)
[<em>]Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB):none
[</em>]Essays:kinda risky…but was da truth…i had thought i cud do better</p>

<p>[<em>]Location:Nepal
[</em>]High School Type:Private
[<em>]Ethnicity:International(Asian)
[</em>]Gender:Female[/ul]Other[ul]
[<em>]Extracurriculars:not much…i was really worried by them
[</em>]Awards:a few national level awards
[<em>]Financial aid: Yes (almost a full ride)
[</em>]Why you think you were accepted:i don kno…i m jus glad i got in :D. ,mayb they liked me…mayb they saw that i really really luvd mudd:D:D
[/ul]</p>

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<p>“Physics Contradicts common sense! that’s why I love this subject” </p>

<p>A lot of times it does, but there is nothing inherent about it that says that this must be the way it is. The Universe may be backwards from how we perceive it, our our methods may be backward. Either way, we sure as he11 have an interesting subject.</p>

<p>The real beauty that I have seen in math/physics is the commonality between the subjects and the fact that it is all the same stuff… even though I can’t unify it explicitly there is a subjective level of coherence.</p>

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<p>arbitraryname, your stats seem very similar to someone i know…</p>

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<p>beefinbj, your username seems very similar to a piece of meat I had for dinner last night …</p>

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<p>scared snarf snarf</p>

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<p>Accepted!</p>

<p>International Student, applied with Aid!</p>

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<p>Northern CA - RD - my son just received the rejection letter.</p>

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<p>Northern CA - Bob got his letter today and was waitlisted</p>