<p>When do you find out about the Harvey Mudd Merit award? My acceptance packet said nothing, but I'm pretty sure I qualify for it.</p>
<p>If you think you qualify for the merit award, but did not receive notification, you should contact admissions of financial aid to see whats up. Ive heard people do get overlooked when it comes to the merit award.</p>
<p>If your school doesn't rank, you have to get a letter from your GC stating that you're in the top 10%. That's our next move. DS did email the Mudd Admissions office to see if the letter would have been included -- when we hear something, I'll post.</p>
<p>If you get the 10k merit award and also make it to National Merit finalist, do you get any extra award (eg. $2,500 or $1,000)?</p>
<p>Accepted</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>]SAT: CR-680, M-800, W-660
[</em>]SAT II: Mth Lvl. 2-800, Physics-800, Chem-790
[<em>]ACT: E-31, M-36, R-35, S-34, Composite-34
[</em>]GPA: 3.78
[<em>]Rank: 26/640
[</em>]Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB): Physics C (both parts)-5, BC Calculus-5, Chemisry-5, AB Comp Sci-4, APUSH-3
[/ul]Subjective[ul]
[<em>]Essays: I guess they were pretty good b/c I got a little personal note about them on my acceptnace letter.
[</em>]Teacher Recs: Above average?
[<em>]Counselor Rec: Probably not too good. She just became my counselor a coupe of months before she wrote the recs and has several hundred other studnets to worry about. I was basicallly just a number to her.
[</em>]Supplementary Material: I might have sent a research paper, but I don't rmember.
[<em>]Interview: No
[/ul]Personal[ul]
[</em>]Location: Near Cleveland
[<em>]High School Type: Large Public
[</em>]Ethnicity: Caucasian
[<em>]Gender: Male[/ul]Other[ul]
[</em>]Extracurriculars: Independnet study+standard math/science stuff.
[li]Awards: Several mediocre placements at the state, regional, and school level in math/sciecne/latin.[/li][/ul]</p>
<p>I got into Harvey Mudd and Carnegie Mellon (CIT) for engineering (undeclared). Is it obvious that i should go to harvey mudd?</p>
<p>^^ I would. Honestly I'd pick Harvey Mudd over most colleges. Had a similr dilemma last week. IF I got into Columbia/Cornell (and I got Columbia) is HMC the obvious pick. </p>
<p>Sure Mudd isnt known so much. but its such a fantastic school. and I dont think the education you'd get at CMU is even comparable to Harvey Mudd. Thats based on a week of reading opinions and this vs. that stuff about HMC and the Ivy/MIT/Caltech/Stanford...</p>
<p>People pick Harvey Mudd for engineering over the ivies and the big tech schools (MIT and Cal)...I dont think Carnegie Mellon puts up a real fight ...</p>
<p>Thats just my 2 cents though I suggest you do your own research...Go with the feeling you get after...</p>
<p>Well I would say CMU would be worth considering for computer science, though in the end I would probably chose Mudd over it ^^.</p>
<p>Oldergr: Yes, if you are a NM finalist, put HMC down as your first choice college and I believe that they will automatically give you the $1,000 scholarship (renewable for all 4 years). My D received both the HMC $10,000/yr scholarship and the NM scholarship.</p>
<p>Design News magazine had an article about the benefits of small
engineering schools, but even if you are not an engineering major, the article says a lot about why you should go to Harvey Mudd
<a href="http://www.designnews.com/article/CA6538021.html%5B/url%5D">http://www.designnews.com/article/CA6538021.html</a></p>
<p>If you are interested in going on to earn your Ph.D,
this reflects institutions in the nation ranked by percentage of graduates who go on to earn a Ph.D. in selected disciplines</p>
<p>BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES: Reed, CalTech, Swarthmore, U Chicago, Kalamazoo, MIT, Earlham, Harvey Mudd, U Sciences Philadelphia, Grinnell</p>
<p>CHEMISTRY: Harvey Mudd, Reed, CalTech, Wabash, Carleton, Grinnell, Wooster, Kalamazoo, Texas Lutheran, Bowdoin</p>
<p>MATH & COMPUTER SCIENCES: CalTech, Harvey Mudd, MIT, Reed, Rice, Princeton, U Chicago, Carnegie Mellon, St. John's, Pomona</p>
<p>PHYSICAL SCIENCES: Harvey Mudd, CalTech, MIT, Reed, NM Institute of Mining, Carleton, Wabash, U Chicago, Grinnell, Rice</p>
<p>PHYSICS: CalTech, Harvey Mudd, MIT, NM Institute of Mining, Reed, U Chicago, Princeton, Carleton, Marlboro, Rice</p>
<p>SCIENCES & ENGINEERING: CalTech, Harvey Mudd, MIT, Reed, Swarthmore, Carleton, U Chicago, Rice, Princeton, Haverford</p>
<p>Source: Weighted Baccalaureate Origins Study, Higher Education Data Sharing Consortium (2004)</p>
<p>Rejected</p>
<p>Stats:</p>
<pre><code>* SAT: 2200 (770 CR, 730 M, 700 W)
* SAT II: 790 Math IIC, 790 Physics, 790 World History
* ACT: 34
* GPA: 3.7
* Rank: N/A
* Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB): 5 on AP US History, National Merit Finalist, AMC12 in 11th grade
</code></pre>
<p>Subjective</p>
<pre><code>* Essays: ok
* Teacher Recs: ? didn't see them
* Counselor Rec: ?
* Supplementary Material: none
* Interview: None
</code></pre>
<p>Personal</p>
<pre><code>* Location: Colorado
* High School Type: Public
* Ethnicity: White
* Gender: Male
</code></pre>
<p>Other</p>
<pre><code>* Extracurriculars: Math Olympiad, Knowledge Bowl, model UN
* Awards: Math Olympaid, Vocabulary competition (2nd in state, twice), school design competition winner, Spanish competition
* Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?:
</code></pre>
<p>Accepted</p>
<p>Stats:
*SAT: 2160. 700 Reading. 680 Math. 780 Writing.
*SAT II: 780 World, 720 Biology Molecular, 710 Chemistry, 710 Math I, 700 Math II, 680 Biology Ecology, and 670 French Reading
*GPA: 93.77 unweighted; my school only does the 0-100 unweighted grading scale.
*Rank: between top 5-10% in a class of 597 students; officially, school does not rank
*Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB): total of 7 AP courses/exams in high school.</p>
<p>Subjective
*Essays: Awesome.
*Teacher Recs: Probably awesome
*Counselor Rec: Probably Awesome
*Supplementary Material: none.
*Interview: Awesome.
*Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize): none.</p>
<p>Personal
*Location: NYC
*High School Type: ranked #20 best in the nation by US News Rankings, large specialized science public high school with a selective entrance exam
*Ethnicity: Asian
*Gender: [ /list][ b]Other[ /b][ list] Female</p>
<p>*Extracurriculars
editor of biology journal, editor of physical reactions journal at school; tutored 2 kids in creative writing; 2 Arista community service projects per semester; bio-engineering research 2 summers; local college courses, writing short stories in free time
*Awards: Arista Honor Society and a few state and city science research awards in JSHS and Biogeneius
*Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?:[ /list]</p>
<p>Advice: Apply to HMC juniors!!</p>
<p>wow, ScoutMom, those stats are really interesting....Harvey Mudd above MIT a lot of the time is pretty impressive! I hate that Math and Computer Science is always put in the same category, because sometimes a bad, purely theory based CS program is at the same school as a good math program (such as Colorado school of mines...every time I asked about CS they kept on trying to redirect me to their applied math department)</p>
<p>How do you get your stats to be in colors and in bullet points? i copied and pastes the format but it didnt show up.</p>
<p>read post 16</p>
<p>Accepted</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>]SAT: 2270 (M: 760 CR: 750 W: 760)
[</em>]SAT II: Haha, my SAT II scores make me blush (in embarrassment.)
[<em>]ACT: No way, I wasn't going to take more tests than necessary.
[</em>]GPA: 4.0 UW 4.3 W
[<em>]Rank: 10/300 (not a valedictorian here!)
[</em>]Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB): I have 5s in English Language, World History, and European History; a 4 in U.S. History; and a 3 in Chemistry. How was I accepted again?
[/ul]Subjective[ul]
[<em>]Essays: Personally, I'm one of those angst-ridden writers so I thought my essays were crap. Everyone else for some odd reason thought they were ingenious. I must confess though, I reused one of my Caltech essays.
[</em>]Teacher Recs: Harvey Mudd sent me a letter saying that my recommendation from a science teacher was missing; I never asked my teacher about it. So Mudd either found it, or overlooked it.
[<em>]Counselor Rec: My counselor loves me so I assume she glorified me in her own little way.
[</em>]Supplementary Material: I told Mudd I would send them my research publications...I neglected to do so.
[<em>]Interview: None.
[</em>]Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize): I will lead a massive People's Revolution ten years from now. [/ul]Personal[ul]
[<em>]Location: Long Island, New York, U.S.A., N. America, Earth, the Universe
[</em>]High School Type: Public, generic, nothing special.
[<em>]Ethnicity: South Asian (Bangladeshi)
[</em>]Gender: I am 100% woman :D [/ul]Other[ul]
[<em>]Extracurriculars: science research, Model United Nations, school newspaper, tutoring, mentoring, politicking, spudgun firing.
[</em>]Awards: some feminist awards, journalism things, science things, etc. Nothing big like STS finalist, though.<br>
[*]Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?: I don't know if Mudd realizes how appreciative I am of its acceptance offer. I was deferred by the "tech powerhouses" so my RD applications were... half-assed, basically. I submitted my application on January 28th; the deadline was the 15th. I don't even know if my recommendations got there in one piece - I was a total mess. And now I'm in. Anything's possible ;D [/ul]</p>
<p>Spudguns: what a great hook! Someone send this woman to East!!!</p>
<p>Cool. You're bangladeshi? I'm bengali, but the indian kind.</p>
<p>Who is Spudguns and why are we sending her to my dorm?</p>
<p>
[quote]
I submitted my application on January 28th; the deadline was the 15th.
[/quote]
Heh, consider yourself on top of things. I sent in all my apps within 60 minutes of the deadline. :)</p>