Surprised at Claremont Mckenna

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Anonymous wrote: Based on the post above, I don’t see the point of the consortium. If you want more class options with less headaches, just go to a bigger school. There are plenty in the 5,000 to 15,000 student range.

I like the diversity. The admissions offices and schools run completely independently, so that means that the student body and academic goals for each department are very different. Taking an English class at Pomona is different from English at Scripps is different from Literature at CMC. I also just wanted a small college environment and don't really see "headaches" from having a shared portal where I enroll in whatever classes I want, no matter campus. Also very few universities have the resources of Pomona/CMC in the 5,000-7,000 student population range that are in Southern California or just aren't as hard to get into as the rest.

I love going to a small college and most cannot have the breadth of course work with CMC's econ-accounting, Pitzer activism and organizational theory/psych, Scripp's Art conservation and Gender Studies, Harvey Mudd's very impressive STEM, and Pomona's exhaustive great departments.

I don't think most parents consider activism a plus, so thanks for alerting us that's a thing in the consortium. Otherwise, I disagree with you, there are plenty of medium size colleges that offer all of these subjects.

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Anonymous wrote: Based on the post above, I don’t see the point of the consortium. If you want more class options with less headaches, just go to a bigger school. There are plenty in the 5,000 to 15,000 student range.

I like the diversity. The admissions offices and schools run completely independently, so that means that the student body and academic goals for each department are very different. Taking an English class at Pomona is different from English at Scripps is different from Literature at CMC. I also just wanted a small college environment and don't really see "headaches" from having a shared portal where I enroll in whatever classes I want, no matter campus. Also very few universities have the resources of Pomona/CMC in the 5,000-7,000 student population range that are in Southern California or just aren't as hard to get into as the rest.

I love going to a small college and most cannot have the breadth of course work with CMC's econ-accounting, Pitzer activism and organizational theory/psych, Scripp's Art conservation and Gender Studies, Harvey Mudd's very impressive STEM, and Pomona's exhaustive great departments.

I don't think most parents consider activism a plus, so thanks for alerting us that's a thing in the consortium. Otherwise, I disagree with you, there are plenty of medium size colleges that offer all of these subjects.

I'm not sure what you're getting at. Many policy and non profit organizations are activist organizations. It's not just protesting on the quad.

We'll just have to disagree on the second part, because it's not just the coursework but the opportunities that exist at the 5Cs. I can't convince your child to go here lol.

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You probably could convince that kid. But not the helicopter parent$. This is not your problem.

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Anyone have information on the new integrated sciences department? DC is interested and seems pretty ambitious.

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Anonymous wrote:Anyone have information on the new integrated sciences department? DC is interested and seems pretty ambitious.

Very very strong faculty line up, you can check here:https://www.cmc.edu/kravis-department-of-integrated-sciences/faculty-and-staff . CMC is on a massive hiring spree right now and hiring 7 or 8 more faculty into the department with an end goal of 30-35 new science faculty.

DC took the intro course "Codes of Life" and loved it. He explained that the goal of all the courses will be to code while learning complex biochemistry and/or physics, which sounds really exciting.

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Anonymous wrote:Anyone have information on the new integrated sciences department? DC is interested and seems pretty ambitious.

Very very strong faculty line up, you can check here:https://www.cmc.edu/kravis-department-of-integrated-sciences/faculty-and-staff . CMC is on a massive hiring spree right now and hiring 7 or 8 more faculty into the department with an end goal of 30-35 new science faculty.

DC took the intro course "Codes of Life" and loved it. He explained that the goal of all the courses will be to code while learning complex biochemistry and/or physics, which sounds really exciting.

Seems they poach a ton from Penn and Stanford, and even got an Associate professor to quit at Notre Dame, not something to sniff at. Looks like it'll be awesome once they finish the schematics.

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DC has loved his experience at CMC and has flew far as a junior in economics and chemistry. His professors have outstanding connections that has given him positions in a gene-editing lab, a thinktank, and now a biotech operations intern. He's done research in Greece on the college's dime and feels very attached to the student body.

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I went to college in one of the Claremont schools and the Inland Empire is a non-issue because most kids stay on campus and everything is very campus based. We didn't even really venture into the Village (Claremont)--which is super cute.
If we wanted to see shows in LA or go to the beach, someone has a car and we would go.

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Anonymous wrote:Like many SLACs, the location sucks.

lol no you are an ignorant idiot

Not ignorant. Grew up in Southern California. I stand by opinion.

No you are speaking without experience. Much nicer than 95 percent of southern Ca.

This is exact. A lot of southern California looks like an abandoned wasteland with a massive warehouse being the only thing in sight. While the coast is gorgeous, many parts of LA are disgusting and blight. Claremont is a lovely little spot to go to college in or really just to live in.

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).

Is LAX the airport most students use?

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.

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.

Southern California is “hot”? Who knew?

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Anonymous wrote:CMC was my first choice 30 years ago. I ended up at an Ivy because I got a full ride, but CMC was the dream!

What about the frat-hole, neo-conservative school is a "dream"

“Neo-conservative”? Huh? That there may be three or four moderate Republican-ish academics there does not make a place “neo-conservative.”

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Anonymous wrote:If you remove the three military/service academies from the T10, then Wesleyan, CMC, and Middlebury are in the T10.

The academies are amazing and deserve their rank as an indicator of excellence. Those who serve have my respect. But the schools are not a typical path, and I wouldn’t include them on a list for civilian education. To my thinking, the SLAC list should read like the National Uni list. Civilian schools only. The military stands apart.

Relax. It’s usually ranked better than 11, even with the “military/service” academies included.

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Anonymous wrote:Like many SLACs, the location sucks.

lol no you are an ignorant idiot

Not ignorant. Grew up in Southern California. I stand by opinion.

No you are speaking without experience. Much nicer than 95 percent of southern Ca.

This is exact. A lot of southern California looks like an abandoned wasteland with a massive warehouse being the only thing in sight. While the coast is gorgeous, many parts of LA are disgusting and blight. Claremont is a lovely little spot to go to college in or really just to live in.

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).

Is LAX the airport most students use?

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.

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.

Southern California is “hot”? Who knew?

Most people from back East don't know. They think all of LA is like "West of the 405" LA.

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Which Claremont school is good for pre-med?

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Anonymous wrote:Which Claremont school is good for pre-med?

Why pay that kind of money for premed? State flagship is the way to go.

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Anonymous wrote:Which Claremont school is good for pre-med?

Why pay that kind of money for premed? State flagship is the way to go.

For us, it was much cheaper than the state school.
Anyway, to answer PP's question Pomona has the best pre-med outcomes (number 1 Med School is Columbia, number 2 is Harvard) and the school has first semester P/NP grading for the genetics and intro chem course. A lot more help resources than the other Cs, Scripps/Pitzer classes are apparently very rigorous, so they are also good!