<p>Harvey Mudd is a pretty underrated school.</p>
<p>“…I just got back from a camp for my sport and I actually researched Harvey Mudd a little, it looks pretty good but a little less hardcore! …”</p>
<p>if you go into engineering, just wait.</p>
<p>Oh many majors at Harvey Mudd are very hard, from what I heard from graduates of it whom I know personally. </p>
<p>As for the poster who commented on Caltech requiring that you sort of find and demonstrate your passion in MSE early, well part of the thing is Caltech isn’t necessarily claiming that people who’re a good fit for them are the best MSE students out there. There is talent in several top institutions of learning. I think a very specific kind of student, one who generally has a pretty narrow focus into MSE often enjoys Caltech, and it’s a very specific type of atmosphere. This is what Lizzard seems to state in what I’d call the key characterization of Caltech:</p>
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<p>Basically, they don’t want to take chances and want to use their best judgement as to who’d be a right fit for them.</p>
<p>Scientists have other passions too… Einstein and his violin, Feynman and his bongos, Oppenheimer and his poetry. Don’t overlook a school just because you don’t think you can make it! CalTech might be a reach, sure, but you should try. Just convey your passion through the essays and get recs from math/sci teachers. Preferably teachers of the “harder” sciences or upper level math classes, say physics or multivariable calculus/linear algebra, if you’ve taken them.</p>
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<p>I definitely think someone into MSE can get as much or more out of other involvements in high school, and that just general character traits these involvements help one build can be helpful in MSE pursuits.</p>
<p>Probably the problem is that someone who spent free time solving math problems instead of doing Model UN is showing just a clearer sign that that’s what they want to do all the time. That may be the point of Caltech – to assemble a cozy group of people who already know this is really the stuff they want to think and talk about for the next 4 years.</p>
<p>In my humble opinion, it is also dangerous for one to extrapolate that a good runner will, for instance, have the endurance to fix bugs in a CS project for hours on end. That’s endurance too, after all, but one can find running interesting, and for that matter almost any academic pursuit not so fun. So while such pursuits are good, I really discourage the practice of “discovering” students’ character traits through their activities – something many schools outside of Caltech may somewhat endorse, given the nature of their essays. I think this sort of thing leads to pretty invalid logic. And in that sense, I think Caltech plays it quite safe and well. The one and only drawback is that for some MSE interests, it is somewhat less likely that one can find a way to promisingly show the passion off in an application. But overall, this isn’t the most easily solved problem, and I think overall Caltech really does do its best.</p>
<p>well my qus is just that i had a true will to apply for the MIT boston
well my need is just that i am not getting proper advice how to apply</p>
<p>i belongs to india and as eing a foreigner i waana to know all the enterences exams dates form and other additive information that how i just can apply my best over here</p>
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