Harvey Mudd College is a
small private college located in Claremont,
California consisting of about 750 full time students, offering only 6 majors:
math,
engineering,
computer science,
biology,
physics,
chemistry. The school, founded in 1954 by
Harvey Mudd, is well known for the quality of
graduates it produces, and typically ranks in the top 5 schools in the country in terms of value, student accomplishments, and reputation, when adjusted for size.
Unfortunately, along with the prestige of the school comes a somewhat undesired demographic:
nerds. This has become
Mudd's defining characteristic, not only by dominating the campus, but also Mudd's intercollegiate reputation.