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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It’s just people not very well acquainted with Mudd. Some engineering students end up falling flat on their face in physics classes and have to take Pomona physics classes, which have better profs/more support, to pass.[/quote]
This is strange. Do you mean that a prestigious STEM college doesn't have better profs than Pomona? Physics is hard, but that is not a prof's fault if the student is finding it hard. As far as I know, one of Mudd's physics prof is a visiting faculty at Caltech. ALL of Mudd's faculty have a PhD from a prestigious institution, and to be a faculty at Harvey Mudd, one needs to teach extremely well.[/quote] Read between the lines a bit - Pomona has easier physics courses[/quote]
DD attends Pomona as a math major and hates taking classes at Mudd. It’s not that the classes are harder, because the content is more difficult; the professors at Mudd suck and are eager to mark down than up- this is great for students who don’t need high scores since they’ll be going to Google or Apple, but DD wishes to go to grad school and Mudd profs are really unhelpful.

Mudd students struggle just as hard in Pomona math courses as Pomona students.[/quote]

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