With Only 44 CS Grads, Is Harvey Mudd's CS Program's Success a Tad Overhyped?

Re:With Only 44 CS Grads, Is Harvey Mudd's CS Program's Succ... by adpoe on Sunday January 08, 2017 @09:26PM (#13353513)

There are only 807 undergrads[1] at Harvey Mudd (which of course is an excellent school).

So that's still a sizable portion of their undergrad students -- even though from such a small sample, it's very hard to tell whether what they are doing would scale.

Also worth noting -- Harvey Mudd is focused on Science and Engineering, so students who pick HM would likely be more predisposed to picking a major like CS, anyway.

But still, an increase is an increase, and they're not out of line to cite those numbers, IMO, they're accurate.

-- [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvey_Mudd_College

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Re:With Only 44 CS Grads, Is Harvey Mudd's CS Program's Succ... by Hydraulix989 on Sunday January 08, 2017 @10:03PM (#13353680)

An inordinate amount of the college spam emails I received after getting a top score on the SAT while I was in high school were from HM (and a few other schools like Colorado School of Mines and Drexel). It was actually a turn-off.

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