{"id":38,"date":"2013-02-06T15:26:56","date_gmt":"2013-02-06T23:26:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newwww.hmc.edu\/about-hmc\/?p=38"},"modified":"2014-08-21T13:22:12","modified_gmt":"2014-08-21T20:22:12","slug":"hmc-named-a-best-value-college-by-princeton-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/2013\/02\/06\/hmc-named-a-best-value-college-by-princeton-review\/","title":{"rendered":"HMC Named a \u201cBest Value College\u201d by Princeton Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/02\/BestValueColleges2013cover.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-71\" alt=\"BestValueColleges2013cover\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/02\/BestValueColleges2013cover.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"199\" \/><\/a>Harvey Mudd College is one of the nation\u2019s \u201cBest Value Colleges\u201d according to The Princeton Review\u2019s newly released book, &#8220;The Best Value Colleges: 2013 Edition.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The book profiles 75 public and 75 private colleges based on assessments covering academics, cost and financial aid.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We commend these colleges,\u201d said Robert Franek, the guidebook\u2019s lead author, \u201cfor their stellar academics and their exceptional affordability as evidenced by their generous financial aid awards or their comparatively low sticker prices\u2014or both.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In its profile of HMC, the book highlights the College\u2019s mission to educate future engineers, scientists and mathematicians, as well as the accessibility of professors and the collaborative spirit of the student body.<\/p>\n<p>The Princeton Review identified the top undergraduate schools based upon surveys conducted at 650 schools during 2011-12. Along with academic and financial assessments, the educational services company factored in student feedback about the quality of campus life and interaction with professors.<\/p>\n<p>Students described HMC as a place where \u201ceveryone is literate in every branch of science,\u201d \u201cthe honor code really means something\u201d and \u201cresearch opportunities are limitless.\u201d Campus culture, they said, revolved around a welcoming community where \u201cupperclassmen look out for underclassmen, and students tend to bond together easily over difficult homework.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>HMC students said they are \u201ca really diverse group of personalities,\u201d who are \u201cfriendly, smart and talented\u2026united by a brimming passion for science and a love of knowledge for its own sake.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The 2013 \u201cBest Value Colleges\u201d list can be viewed at USA Today, the Princeton Review&#8217;s publishing partner for the Best Value Colleges project.<\/p>\n<p>All of The Claremont Colleges undergraduate schools (HMC, Claremont McKenna, Pitzer, Pomona and Scripps) were selected for The Best Value Colleges: 2013 Edition guidebook.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Harvey Mudd College is one of the nation\u2019s \u201cBest Value Colleges\u201d according to The Princeton Review\u2019s newly released book, &#8220;The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[967],"class_list":["post-38","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-feed"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}