Surprised at Claremont Mckenna
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Anonymous
yeah, i pretty much despised the drive to reach Claremont, but what an oasis when you arrive. DD loved Pomona, but ended up wanting to be on East Coast so didn't apply. If I wasn't such a denizen of the East Coast, I could see living there (though the drive to the ocean might take as long as it does to get to Delaware Shore or Hamptons). |
Anonymous
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And you have to drive through the ugly parts of New Jersey to get to Manhattan. Wouldn’t stop me from attending Princeton and taking side trips to NYC.
Seriously… this is not the standard by which we measure schools. If you want to take a swing at CMC or any other school, do better. lol. |
Anonymous
A lot of people call that wasteland “home.” This all sounds like desert shock. When I’m driving through middle of nowhere New England, I don’t critique the massive trees everywhere for miles on end…it’s just the environment. Most of America is miles of flat nothing, it’s the environment. |
Anonymous
Is LAX the airport most students use? |
Anonymous
Wow nothing attractive is usually put next to the freeway? Who knew. I’m so used to seeing all the gorgeous buildings along 95 between DC and NY. |
Anonymous
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Is Claremont a dump?
Anon 1: yes. Anon 2: no Anon 1: yuh huh Anon 2: nuh uh Etc. ad nauseum ad infinitum How long can this go on for? Isn't there something more interesting to say about the school? |
Anonymous
Yes. Ontario is very close by and has good service but it won’t have nonstop to the east coast, so it usually works out better to fly from LAX from around here. |
Anonymous
Depends on where you're from. School spends money on shuttles to LAX and Ontario, and both are fine. You can also take the train to downtown LA for free and spend $9 on a bus that goes straight to LAX. |
Anonymous
No way is any student doing that. Downtown LA is sketchy and public transportation is filled with mentally ill/drug addicts who are scary aggressive. Anyone from Southern CA doesn’t think highly of The Inland Empire. It’s smoggy and hot. |
Anonymous
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I wouldn’t go to Claremont unless you want to major in economics or political science. 90% of kids at Claremont major in these or perhaps government. Students can be on the obnoxious side. Many finance bros.
The 5 colleges don’t mix all that much. Harvey Mudd is the most separated. Pomona kids are aloof. Everyone looks down on Pitzer. The town is tiny and boring. If you don’t have a car, you are pretty much stuck on campus. But otherwise all good. |
Anonymous
| Is there like a Target or Walmart within walking distance of campus? |
Anonymous
It's really not that much of an issue. You just walk like 300 feet from union station to...union station and hop on a bus. It does however sound like you are terrible at navigating and can't get out of skid row. Most of DTLA is just a normal American downtown. |
Anonymous
I've had the opposite experience. The 5Cs are easily the best consortium in America, and you get all the benefits in walking distance. I take a ton of classes off campus and, as a Pomona student, we are the least incentivized to do so, since they usually don't register for credit, are furthest away, and tend to be PERM-only. My CMC friends are in all kinds of majors: geology, history, cs, etc. Sure a lot of CMC is in econ, but the consortium makes it, so it really doesn't matter. No one is stopping you from taking Harvey Mudd classes, just sign up. The HMC courses are practically wide open outside of CS (even then, upper divs are easy to get with PERM). Claremont is chill, and I like the On the Loose Trips. If you aren't feeling the consortium is functioning, you never will use one correctly. It is 10x harder to take classes, take extracurriculars, etc. in other consortiums. CMC and Pitzer have both spent money on me to do research and to go on class trips. |
Anonymous
No, but most people just buy online. There's a trader joes nearby (walking distance depending on who you talk to), and there's a target a few bus stops away. |
Anonymous
It's because Claremont Mckenna doesn't have any actual problems, so people have to get "creative" and talk about the smog issues of LA likes it's 1990. |