Surprised at Claremont Mckenna

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:DC has shown interest in Claremont Mckenna, which I 100% wrote off as a mediocre LAC. Then reading through their Roberts Campus and massive alum donation campaign, I am shocked this tiny place hasn't shot to the top of students' lists. They're doubling campus footprint, investing hundreds of thousands to improve research opportunities and internship opportunities, and building a fancy new science department. What is the catch?

Claremont McKenna has always been regarded as one of the top SLACs. It's just in California and the DCUM (emphasis on "DC" area) don't discuss such schools much.

Is it? I feel like the LAC quality drops fast after Bowdoin and Middlebury. Would never send my kids to Hamilton or Colby or...Claremont Mckenna. Sure, they're ranked well, but there's no advantage to paying for it over UMD.

+1!

Lol. You know nothing!

stop it, CMC booster! are you paid by the college? you're everywhere. it's getting weird.

NP. CMC over Bowdoin and Midd any day of the week. You are ignorant. For certain majors, it also equals (or even exceeds) WASP.

[Anonymous]

I’m a NP and haven’t read the entire thread. I chose CMC 20 years ago over a bunch of east coast schools that everyone has head of (Dartmouth, Penn, Amherst, Swarthmore) as well as Pomona. I ended up in law school on the east coast and live here now, and sometimes wish I had gone to a school more people had heard of and with more alumni. I have never wished for a different college experience though — it was a phenomenal place to be a student and I couldn’t have asked for a better combo of campus life and academics.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m a NP and haven’t read the entire thread. I chose CMC 20 years ago over a bunch of east coast schools that everyone has head of (Dartmouth, Penn, Amherst, Swarthmore) as well as Pomona. I ended up in law school on the east coast and live here now, and sometimes wish I had gone to a school more people had heard of and with more alumni. I have never wished for a different college experience though — it was a phenomenal place to be a student and I couldn’t have asked for a better combo of campus life and academics.

Name recognition has vastly improved with CMC alum moving more and more to notable industries. It is a very young college.

[Anonymous]

Blah, blah blah ... so many paid trolls from CMC's marketing and sales dept on this and the other CMC thread.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I’m a NP and haven’t read the entire thread. I chose CMC 20 years ago over a bunch of east coast schools that everyone has head of (Dartmouth, Penn, Amherst, Swarthmore) as well as Pomona. I ended up in law school on the east coast and live here now, and sometimes wish I had gone to a school more people had heard of and with more alumni. I have never wished for a different college experience though — it was a phenomenal place to be a student and I couldn’t have asked for a better combo of campus life and academics.

Name recognition has vastly improved with CMC alum moving more and more to notable industries. It is a very young college.

Town & Country included CMC in a 2023 article, "The 15 Colleges with the Best Alumni Networks." This is the entire list, which appeared alphabetically and was not ranked:

Bucknell
Claremont McKenna
Dartmouth
Fordham
Hamilton
Ohio State
Penn State
Princeton
Smith College
Texas A&M
UAlabama
Notre Dame
Richmond
Villanova
Virginia Tech

https://www.townandcountrymag.com/society/tradition/g44675332/colleges-with-the-best-alumni-networks/

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I’m a NP and haven’t read the entire thread. I chose CMC 20 years ago over a bunch of east coast schools that everyone has head of (Dartmouth, Penn, Amherst, Swarthmore) as well as Pomona. I ended up in law school on the east coast and live here now, and sometimes wish I had gone to a school more people had heard of and with more alumni. I have never wished for a different college experience though — it was a phenomenal place to be a student and I couldn’t have asked for a better combo of campus life and academics.

Name recognition has vastly improved with CMC alum moving more and more to notable industries. It is a very young college.

Town & Country included CMC in a 2023 article, "The 15 Colleges with the Best Alumni Networks." This is the entire list, which appeared alphabetically and was not ranked:

Bucknell
Claremont McKenna
Dartmouth
Fordham
Hamilton
Ohio State
Penn State
Princeton
Smith College
Texas A&M
UAlabama
Notre Dame
Richmond
Villanova
Virginia Tech

https://www.townandcountrymag.com/society/tradition/g44675332/colleges-with-the-best-alumni-networks/

This was an AI generated article which makes no sense and had no fact checking.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:DC has shown interest in Claremont Mckenna, which I 100% wrote off as a mediocre LAC. Then reading through their Roberts Campus and massive alum donation campaign, I am shocked this tiny place hasn't shot to the top of students' lists. They're doubling campus footprint, investing hundreds of thousands to improve research opportunities and internship opportunities, and building a fancy new science department. What is the catch?

Claremont McKenna has always been regarded as one of the top SLACs. It's just in California and the DCUM (emphasis on "DC" area) don't discuss such schools much.

Is it? I feel like the LAC quality drops fast after Bowdoin and Middlebury. Would never send my kids to Hamilton or Colby or...Claremont Mckenna. Sure, they're ranked well, but there's no advantage to paying for it over UMD.

+1!

Lol. You know nothing!

stop it, CMC booster! are you paid by the college? you're everywhere. it's getting weird.

Weird take. I am not a CMC booster but I have graduated from one of the Claremont Colleges and your take is fully ignorant. The differences between CMC and Bowdoin are negligible. At that point, it's about fit, what you want to study and where you want to end up.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Blah, blah blah ... so many paid trolls from CMC's marketing and sales dept on this and the other CMC thread.

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You're the one that needs help.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Blah, blah blah ... so many paid trolls from CMC's marketing and sales dept on this and the other CMC thread.

Or maybe alum just like the college? We get 10+ daily threads about UVA and VaTech, I think you’ll survive.

[Anonymous]

Wondering if anyone had updates on integrated sciences program. DS is really interested and the faculty CMC has brought on are very strong, even for a top liberal arts college.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Wondering if anyone had updates on integrated sciences program. DS is really interested and the faculty CMC has brought on are very strong, even for a top liberal arts college.

CMC parent here. It's ... a work in progress. They are trying to do something novel and interdisciplinary but unfortunately it's not yet exactly ready for prime time in terms of courses on offer. Perhaps the launch was rushed? Many of my DCs friends still need to get PERMS (professor requests) to get into other science classes at the other 5Cs and now that's made a bit more difficult with them investing so hard into this new program. Seems like they're still working out the kinks.

[Anonymous]

CMC is a good safety option for kids who aren’t really Bucknell material.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:CMC is a good safety option for kids who aren’t really Bucknell material.

We all wish we could go to HYPSB, but alas

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Wondering if anyone had updates on integrated sciences program. DS is really interested and the faculty CMC has brought on are very strong, even for a top liberal arts college.

CMC parent here. It's ... a work in progress. They are trying to do something novel and interdisciplinary but unfortunately it's not yet exactly ready for prime time in terms of courses on offer. Perhaps the launch was rushed? Many of my DCs friends still need to get PERMS (professor requests) to get into other science classes at the other 5Cs and now that's made a bit more difficult with them investing so hard into this new program. Seems like they're still working out the kinks.

So sad because the idea is definitely interesting but too experimental/untested for our family.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:Wondering if anyone had updates on integrated sciences program. DS is really interested and the faculty CMC has brought on are very strong, even for a top liberal arts college.

CMC parent here. It's ... a work in progress. They are trying to do something novel and interdisciplinary but unfortunately it's not yet exactly ready for prime time in terms of courses on offer. Perhaps the launch was rushed? Many of my DCs friends still need to get PERMS (professor requests) to get into other science classes at the other 5Cs and now that's made a bit more difficult with them investing so hard into this new program. Seems like they're still working out the kinks.

So sad because the idea is definitely interesting but too experimental/untested for our family.

It’s collapsing under its a weight. No student in the classes and the program makes no sense. Faculty are lousy