Hi everyone,
I am currently a high school senior. I am considering ED2 at Pomona and Harvey Mudd, and I am very interested in both schools as they seem amazing. I am heavily involved in athletics and hope to make a difference helping people. I’m considering engineering, economics, or some sort of pre-med. I love math and science, but also enjoy humanities like history. My favorite class may have even been psychology in high school. Biomedical engineering has recently appealed to me. Which school do you think would be a better fit for me?
Thanks
1 short paragraph is hardly enough for a stranger to have a meaningful opinion, so here is a non-meaningful opinion: Pomona.
Harvey Mudd is a super school, but best suits students who are certain that they want to follow a strong STEM path- and don’t mind both the harder work & lower GPAs that can follow. For somebody who is currently all over the map in interests a broader liberal arts approach, such as Pomona, is likely a better bet.
Fwiw, CC received wisdom says that if neither is a clear favorite, ED/ED2 is probably not a good plan for you.
paging @intparent for a more informed opinion.
Yes, sums it up very well. Mudd definitely has grade deflation, and isn’t a great choice for pre-med for that reason. And if you might want a non-STEM major, you should pick a different school. If you plan to participate in a D3 sport, Mudders do play on the shared teams with CMC and Scripps, but they have especially intense schedules due to the Mudd academic challenges and sports time commitments.
However, Pomona doesn’t have an engineering major. If you are serious about that, maybe neither school is for you.
The above comments seem right. If you’re not 100% sure about a serious STEM path, don’t go Mudd. As amazing as it is–I’m a big Mudd booster!–HM is a very specific school.
Mudd does not have biomedical engineering
True. But their general engineering along with the Mudd core, and research opportunities on campus would still position a graduate well in that field.
If you really want biomedical engineering then apply to:
Johns Hopkins University
University of Washington
Northwestern University Duke University
Stanford
NYU-Tanden
Rice University
NC State/ UNC
Emory/ Georgia Tech
Purdue
Drexel
Cornell
Dartmouth
Northeastern
New Jersey Inst. of Tech
Stevens Institute of Tech
Ohio State
FSU
Illinois Inst. of Tech
Michigan State University
Clemson
Oregon State
or about 80 other schools.
If you are serious about Biomedical Engineering I would add Case Western Reserve and WPI . Both are very strong in BM. Case Western has a wider range of options for a major.
For Case Western: https://case.edu/ with Biomedical Engineering @https://www.wpi.edu/
While culling through the past three years of graduate schools attended by majors majors in Biochemistry, Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, Biology and Biotechnology, and Biomedical Engineering really jumped out with a high number of graduates going on to a very impressive collection of first rate graduate schools, For WPI https://www.wpi.edu/ with Biomedical Engineering @ https://www.wpi.edu/academics/departments/biomedical-engineering
Thanks everyone I really appreciate the added insight