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Sort By: [Date] [Major] [Rating] Math  Major Salary, Salary Trend, Satisfaction, Unemployment Quite Bright The classes are boring and assign a large amount of unnecessary busy work. The teachers are nice, but there's practically no time available to get to know them. There is no time for extracurriculars like music or theater unless you want to sacrifice being able to regularly get a normal amount of sleep. Do not come here if you have any interests aside from engineering, math, or science that you would like to pursue. Campus Maintenance: A, Useful Schoolwork: F Have a Question? Your Response/Question:     To be informed when someone replies to your comment. (private)  More →  Dec 07 2008 1st Year Female -- Class 2012    Forward  Blog it! Blog about this comment from your webpage or Blog, or MySpace account: Just copy and paste! <script src='http://www.studentsreview.com/active/shared/sr_comment.js?sckey=56107&uid=159'></script> <a href='http://www.studentsreview.com' style='font-size:8pt;'>Data Source: StudentsReview!</a> Rate this comment: Useless (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) Helpful       Save   Biology  Major Salary, Salary Trend, Satisfaction, Unemployment Bright This school kicked my ass nine ways from Sunday with no remorse. My dorm is falling apart, some others are nicer though. Faculty are (for the most part) great, but the workload here is insane and sadistic. If you're gonna come here, you'd better have some experience with every core requirement class you have to take, because most are taught like you already know what you're doing (at first). Some of the administration is cool, but lately the've been riding our asses. Two of my friends found out that they are one credit (1/3 of a class) short and will not graduate with me in a few days. One found out over spring break, one found out 2 days ago. The registrar just missed the fact that they were off-track to graduate and so they got screwed- the school is not helping them at all to my knowledge. That being said there are ways to have a good time here. I didn't transfer because of the people. Often i think i should have. Faculty Accessibility: A+, Individual Value: D+ Have a Question? Your Response/Question:     To be informed when someone replies to your comment. (private)  More →  May 10 2004 4th Year Male -- Class 2004    Forward  Blog it! Blog about this comment from your webpage or Blog, or MySpace account: Just copy and paste! <script src='http://www.studentsreview.com/active/shared/sr_comment.js?sckey=9912&uid=159'></script> <a href='http://www.studentsreview.com' style='font-size:8pt;'>Data Source: StudentsReview!</a> Rate this comment: Useless (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) Helpful       Save   Computer Science  Major Salary, Salary Trend, Satisfaction, Unemployment Quite Bright This school sucks, but we are still better than CalTech or MIT Education Quality: A, Surrounding City: C- Have a Question? Your Response/Question:     To be informed when someone replies to your comment. (private)  More →  May 16 2003 1st Year Male -- Class 2006    Forward  Blog it! Blog about this comment from your webpage or Blog, or MySpace account: Just copy and paste! <script src='http://www.studentsreview.com/active/shared/sr_comment.js?sckey=4813&uid=159'></script> <a href='http://www.studentsreview.com' style='font-size:8pt;'>Data Source: StudentsReview!</a> Rate this comment: Useless (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) Helpful       Save   Computer Science  Major Salary, Salary Trend, Satisfaction, Unemployment Quite Bright I sometimes think Mudd is the worst place ever. Why, you ask? Many reasons. First off Mudd has no grade inflation. None. Finito. Zip. Zilch. Nyet. I didn't care about what my grades were coming into Mudd, and I still don't care that much. However, other people do. Mudd doesn't have the name notority of Caltech or MIT, so that hard earned 2.9GPA (which is darn good here) is going to look just 2.9GPA for anywhere else. Which is, in a word, bad. The admissions department will feed you some line about how all the prestigous employers know about Mudd, and will take you even with the low GPA, etc, etc. Bull-shit. Mudd is well known in the academic community, but trying to get a job with a Mudd degree is like trying to get a job with a degree anywhere else, except with a lower GPA. What saves Mudd in the rankings is the fact that so many Mudd students have rich parents that are willing to send their little prince or princess to grad school (where GPAs go up substainaly). The much touted required classes, also known as the core, suck. Hard. They drive up the credit requirements to the point of absurdity, tend to be more difficult rehashes of things learned in AP courses taught in a far more confusing manner, and delay entry into major track courses. At any other school most Mudd students would pass out of these courses. At Mudd they just relearn the same material over and have to fight amongst themselves for grades. I have no doubt HMC wins the award for most insanely hard grading in a general science course. Which brings up another point. Mudd absolutely refuses to grant credit for any coursework done before matriculation. You can pass out of classes, but you don't get credit for them, which means you are still stuck taking a 15.5 credit/unit load every semester while you are here. Most Mudd freshman would be sophomores at state schools. In conclusion I highly advise against coming here. If you are like me you probably think that you can handle it. It may be hard, but you like hard. Believe you me, it's not worth it. It's like a drug. Even though I can't stand it most of the time, I'm coming back next semester, simply to prove that I can. Innovation: A+, Education Quality: F Have a Question? Your Response/Question:     To be informed when someone replies to your comment. (private)  More →  May 16 2003 1st Year Male -- Class 2006    Forward  Blog it! 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