Anyone have experiences with a DC attending one of the 5Cs - CMC, Pomona, Harvey Mudd, Scripps, Pitzer?

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Anonymous wrote:Sigh. 5Cs are awesome.
DD would have loved to attend Pomona or Mudd but they are $$$$$ and give virtually no merit.

It's more like $$$$$$

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My DCs oldest friend is a sophomore at Harvey Mudd and super happy. Working in admissions, dating, and has made friends across the 5 colleges. A group of my friends went to Pitzer and are lovely people and all still friends with their college crew

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Anonymous wrote:I can't add anymore detail than the PPs provided, just wanted to add that I have two nephews who graduated this past school year who both loved their experience at CMC and have secured great jobs in their fields of finance/econ.

That's very interesting that both of your nephews graduated CMC last year at the same time - are they twins?

Congrats to them both of them getting into CMC and having a great experience together!

Thank you! No, one newphew on my side of the family, and one on DH's side. Just coincidential that they both ended up there!

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Anonymous wrote:DD is at Scripps. She is happy. Loves the 5C community, her dorm, all the resources of the consortium. She switched majors midstream and is now majoring outside her college at Pomona which is working out well. But she loves dorming with her fellow Scrippsies.

Great people across all 5Cs. Very bright and engaged students who are also kind. A few bad eggs here or there as very easily ignored.

Classes are interesting and professors care about students and very accessible.

Food is great especially at Pitzer. She can eat at any of 5Cs.

Main Honnold-Mudd library is meh in her opinion. She prefers Scripps' own Denison library which has Victorian literary vibes.

No problem dating within 5Cs. She is straight and has dated students at other 5Cs. She's met many CMC-ers through her current boyfriend and says they all seem smart and fun. She also briefly dated a Mudder and his friends were all great but wow the Mudders work HARD! Very long hours at Harvey-Mudd compared to all other 5Cs except Pomona pre-med.

She acted in a play at Pomona and had a great experience. She has a very close bff at Pomona. Everyone at Pomona she's met are incredibly smart and welcoming.

She doesn't drive so it's harder to make it to LA that much but if you make friends with someone who drives and has a car, you are set.

Do you mind sharing her admission stats? Our daughter is very interested in Scripps.

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Ah Scripps looks so amazing ... my DD toured and it was a swoonworthy campus and the whole consortium enviro was so stimulating for her! Best way to do an all-women college IMO.

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Anonymous wrote:Ah Scripps looks so amazing ... my DD toured and it was a swoonworthy campus and the whole consortium enviro was so stimulating for her! Best way to do an all-women college IMO.

Haverford-Bryn Mawr are similar in that you can do an all-women college experience with co-ed Hav right next door.

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Anonymous wrote:Ah Scripps looks so amazing ... my DD toured and it was a swoonworthy campus and the whole consortium enviro was so stimulating for her! Best way to do an all-women college IMO.

+1

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DS at Pomona. He has been very disappointed with career services and difficulty in getting classes in CS. Administration is a revolving door. He applied ED was deferred and admitted to Williams and Cornell. In retrospect, he wishes he’d gone to either of the other schools. With the exception of CS, one of his majors, the education has been stellar.

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Anonymous wrote:DS at Pomona. He has been very disappointed with career services and difficulty in getting classes in CS. Administration is a revolving door. He applied ED was deferred and admitted to Williams and Cornell. In retrospect, he wishes he’d gone to either of the other schools. With the exception of CS, one of his majors, the education has been stellar.

What year is he? CS has lifted their class restrictions and, if he’s an upper classmen, he should have many courses to choose from due to access to classes at Harvey mudd (definitely more access than if he went to Williams).

What career services is he seeking? If he wants to go into big tech, you really just need to apply and get an interview, and then ace that interview- not much worth coffee chatting over. Even then, sagehen connect is there.

You have to be proactive. An issue at Pomona is complaints about lack of career readiness but then complete inaction on the student end.

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Anonymous wrote:DS at Pomona. He has been very disappointed with career services and difficulty in getting classes in CS. Administration is a revolving door. He applied ED was deferred and admitted to Williams and Cornell. In retrospect, he wishes he’d gone to either of the other schools. With the exception of CS, one of his majors, the education has been stellar.

What year is he? CS has lifted their class restrictions and, if he’s an upper classmen, he should have many courses to choose from due to access to classes at Harvey mudd (definitely more access than if he went to Williams).

What career services is he seeking? If he wants to go into big tech, you really just need to apply and get an interview, and then ace that interview- not much worth coffee chatting over. Even then, sagehen connect is there.

You have to be proactive. An issue at Pomona is complaints about lack of career readiness but then complete inaction on the student end.

+1, reminds me of what my kid once said about a discussion he had with an alum (not the 5Cs).

“How’d you get into tech?” I applied for a job and they accepted me.
“Did you use any career resources while applying?” I don’t think I would’ve used them if they had existed. I applied for a job and they accepted me.

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DS is a junior. Career services is literally non existent. Getting classes for CS remains challenging but is somewhat better than first two years. He is very proactive and has a high GPA but finds the lack of career support and name recognition within the business/tech community disappointing, particularly in light of what the school tells prospective students. Last year’s admin nonsense and some of the infighting in departments is equally annoying. He knows he’s getting a solid education but the overall experience has been lacking. He, along with at least a half dozen of his friends, wish they’d gone elsewhere. I hope it continues to improve, but I would think long and hard before committing to Pomona now.

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Anonymous wrote:DS is a junior. Career services is literally non existent. Getting classes for CS remains challenging but is somewhat better than first two years. He is very proactive and has a high GPA but finds the lack of career support and name recognition within the business/tech community disappointing, particularly in light of what the school tells prospective students. Last year’s admin nonsense and some of the infighting in departments is equally annoying. He knows he’s getting a solid education but the overall experience has been lacking. He, along with at least a half dozen of his friends, wish they’d gone elsewhere. I hope it continues to improve, but I would think long and hard before committing to Pomona now.

Can your DS access the career services of CMC's soll center? I have heard anecdotally from a CMC family that their career services office is absolutely wonderful.

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Anonymous wrote:DS is a junior. Career services is literally non existent. Getting classes for CS remains challenging but is somewhat better than first two years. He is very proactive and has a high GPA but finds the lack of career support and name recognition within the business/tech community disappointing, particularly in light of what the school tells prospective students. Last year’s admin nonsense and some of the infighting in departments is equally annoying. He knows he’s getting a solid education but the overall experience has been lacking. He, along with at least a half dozen of his friends, wish they’d gone elsewhere. I hope it continues to improve, but I would think long and hard before committing to Pomona now.

The hive is having consistent programming on startups and meeting with Alum who've built one. This weekend was sparkathon and there’s Claremont accelerator. Mudd has a weekly Cs Newsletter with consistent invitation to cs resume and career events, along with career fair invitations. There’s P-ai where he could lead his own project. There’s many students doing cs research or computational research in neuro, chem, physics, etc. I’m not hearing much effort on his end, beyond him being “proactive” without anything concrete.

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DD is enjoying Pomona but isn’t in an overcrowded major (physics, not CS). She loves it and hasn’t really complained about career issues, nor do I think she really cares since she’s going to grad school, which the physics department has an excellent record on. Classes are rigorous and interesting- she’s taking 2 at Harvey mudd this semester and doing just as well as the mudders. Her first summer she did research with a professor and her second she worked at a well known national lab that her advisor had connections. But these are not the things she likes. She loves the nice student body, the food, the different kinds of people, and the campus.

If you’re very pre professional, maybe steer clear, because you’re just going to be frustrated that most people don’t really care to talk about careerism all day. Or, move over to CMC where that’s all they do, but this is a west coast thing. Even the Berkeley pre professional types want to build their own thing and create the next Tesla or whatever, not just go work for musk.

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Anonymous wrote:DD is enjoying Pomona but isn’t in an overcrowded major (physics, not CS). She loves it and hasn’t really complained about career issues, nor do I think she really cares since she’s going to grad school, which the physics department has an excellent record on. Classes are rigorous and interesting- she’s taking 2 at Harvey mudd this semester and doing just as well as the mudders. Her first summer she did research with a professor and her second she worked at a well known national lab that her advisor had connections. But these are not the things she likes. She loves the nice student body, the food, the different kinds of people, and the campus.

If you’re very pre professional, maybe steer clear, because you’re just going to be frustrated that most people don’t really care to talk about careerism all day. Or, move over to CMC where that’s all they do, but this is a west coast thing. Even the Berkeley pre professional types want to build their own thing and create the next Tesla or whatever, not just go work for musk.

My DS is interested in majoring in physics and has both Pomona and Mudd on his list. Can you share the differences between the two for physics majors and why someone would prefer one over the other?