<p>Muddslinger, why UPenn? What doesn’t fit about social life?</p>
<p>washington u in st louis, carnegie mellon, ucsd, uc irvine, uc davis</p>
<p>wow, my list is sad compared to others XD</p>
<p>I also got accepted at Rochester, Rensselaer, UC Santa Barbara, Johns Hopkins, Carnegie Mellon School of Computer Science, Vanderbilt, and UPenn.</p>
<p>I’ll most likely be attending Penn or Carnegie Mellon, so that should open up a slot for you waitlists 
Good luck!</p>
<p>Duke, Cornell, Northwestern, Rose-Hulman, wait-list at Rice, a few other safeties.</p>
<p>I’m bumping this thread.</p>
<p>UCLA, UCSD, UCI, Caltech, and Mudd…chose Mudd.</p>
<p>technically only applied to mudd. :D</p>
<p>Carnegie Mellon, Rochester. Chose CMU.</p>
<p>Muddslinger, like MomPhD, I’d love to know why the Mudd social life is not for you. Why do you think you don’t fit? Any idea how you could have detected the problem before choosing? Would love to learn from your “mistakes!”</p>
<p>LongPrime - What were your priorities when comparing Mudd/CMU? They seem like very different schools, but both are on my son’s application list. He liked his visit to Mudd, but CMU was a recent addition to the list, so we have note toured it yet.</p>
<p>SimpleLife - <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/harvey-mudd-college/788055-i-may-overthinking-2.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/harvey-mudd-college/788055-i-may-overthinking-2.html</a> post #24</p>
<p>@Colorado_mom
DS’s decision. Part of his decision had to do with size and distance. He did not visit either or any schools. Visual and perceived “feel” were not considerations. </p>
<p>see your PM box.</p>
<p>@simplelife
DS had plenty of time doing other things than just engineering. His classmates likewise had plenty of time. I think that they had very good focus and time management skills. All of them were bright and accomplished. Never ever call your child Sun-Weds, 5pm-3am, they are too engrossed in their studies.</p>
<p>Oh my gosh! Don’t call between 5pm and (THREE) 3am?! Three a.m.? That’s some serious studying time!</p>
<p>Thanks, Muddslinger. I saw your other posts. Fascinating. Very well-said, and very enlightening. I’ll bet a lot of people, self included, will find your comments quite helpful. I appreciate your honesty!</p>
<p>“Oh my gosh! Don’t call between 5pm and (THREE) 3am?! Three a.m.? That’s some serious studying time!”</p>
<p>For the last year in a half I was up til 4 or 5AM most nights. 3AM felt like a good nights sleep.</p>
<p>It’s a real advantage if you are a parent on the East Coast. If I need to reach my Mudder, I can email him when I am getting up for work and he is wrapping up his work for the night. :-)</p>
<p>Uh oh… 3am? 4am? 5am? Please tell me there are not many 8am classes. I know it’s a short communte from the dorms to class, but 2 or 3 hours of sleep is not enough…</p>
<p>co<em>mom – Here’s a link to this semester’s course schedule for all the 5Cs. <a href=“Portal”>https://portal.claremontmckenna.edu/ics/Public</a></em>Course_Schedule/</p>
<p>Close to 60 of the frosh are in an 8am MWF class right now, but there was room in later sections of the same class for those who wished to drop/add.</p>
<p>My Mudder hits the sack by 2am most nights and is trending earlier. His roommate tends to turn in closer to midnight. Like many Mudders, mine sleeps in until lunchtime on the weekends. Fatigue is an issue, I think especially for those in the inner dorms because social events seem to start ramping up around 9-10pm.</p>
<p>I think fatigue is just part of college life to an extent, especially in Engineering majors – Lord knows I could have packed a weekend trip in the bags under my eyes when I commuted to my in-state public as an undergrad. But yes, “voluntary sleep deprivation” definitely happens at Mudd.</p>
<p>Currently, the only 8am frosh classes are chem (MWF) and physics recitation (Tu). Half the sections meet at 8, and half a 9, so about 100 frosh have 8am chem. I think there are 3 sections of physics at 8, and that comes out to about 60 frosh. I have no idea what the overlap is between the two groups.</p>
<p>I don’t know very many frosh who are up until 4 or 5am every day. I think the hour you go to bed depends mainly on study habits - if you have good study habits, you’ll be fine. Personally, I don’t have the best study habits in the world (I’m easily distracted by Facebook or “Gmail - Inbox(1)”), but I can count on one hand the number of nights I was up past 3am (and at least two of those were the night before 8am chem).</p>
<p>As far as I’ve heard, non-frosh generally have fewer 8am classes. They don’t want 8am classes…frosh don’t have much of a choice. Perhaps an upperclassman can provide more information here.</p>
<p>threefifthsc, you said you can count on one hand the number of nights you were up past 3am. Can I ask what time you usually do turn in, on a typical weeknight? geek_mom said social events start ramping up at around 9-10pm. On weeknights? Are those events outside of the dorms, so that people who want to be studying or sleeping can do so?</p>
<p>Are there plenty of other students who keep a more, idk, “normal” schedule – like in bed by 10:30-11pm? Or is this really a campus culture thing – social events and late, late study nights for most?</p>
<p>The son who’s interested in Mudd would not be interested in late nights. He’s got excellent study habits, is not easily distracted, and has time management down to a science. Could a kid like that be in bed by 11 most of the time? And are there more than a few others who WANT to turn in “early” like that?</p>