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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Caltech and Harvey Mudd are very similar to each other. Caltech attracts more STEM superstars, Harvey Mudd students tend to more heavily value the liberal arts. Caltech has world-class faculty, Harvey Mudd has national-award winning teachers. Caltech is more theoretical, Mudd is more applied.

Mudd is a more vibrant environment due to its relationship to the Claremont Colleges; Caltech is self-contained. But Mudd students tend to stick to themselves the most within the consortium.

None of the other schools are remotely alike, not even MIT. [/quote]

This is a good description. The other difference is that Mudd is undergrad-focused, where Caltech actually has more grad students than undergrads. That has benefits and drawbacks. The grad students drive the research programs, which any undergrad can get involved with if they want to. There's a lot of mixing between undergrads and grad students, much more than at most colleges. But it also means that the faculty attention has a lot of emphasis on the grad students.

To whoever asked if Caltech students mix with other colleges - unless something has radically changed in the 25 years since I was a student there, no. Not at all. For one thing, it's LA ... any other college is at least an hour away. And Caltech is pretty insular.  We had our own way of socializing. We did have fun, but most of us would not have blended well into another college except maybe Mudd.[/quote]

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