Surprised at Claremont Mckenna
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Anonymous
Okay, doesn't necessitate dropping $360k so that my daughter can go to the 17th best school at something. All of this is achievable easily with a state school. |
Anonymous
| The person whose child I know is enrolling there is incredibly wealthy. |
Anonymous
So your point is that one should always go to an inexpensive state school? If so, I have to wonder why you even opened this particular thread and commented. In any event, I was responding to the comment that "LAC quality drops fast after Bowdoin and Middlebury." My point is that, while CMC's focus is narrow, what it does it does extremely well and at least as well Bowdoin, Swarthmore, Middlebury, Pomona, or most T20 universities. If you're comparing CMC to other top LACs or T20 private schools, CMC holds its own. If you want to more generally discuss the value of elite private schools vs. public schools, I think this is the wrong thread. FWIW, I have no ties to CMC. I'm the parent of a kid at a different Claremont College who has no interest in any of the foregoing. |
Anonymous
In what universe is Claremont McKenna "middling at best?" Or are you sad because you didn't get in? |
Anonymous
Nothing about it to write home about. Yay you got an easy liberal arts degree with miniscule class sizes, because you weren't smart enough to graduate a state school and need to be coddled with an overpriced degree. No employer will recognize the name but its "prestigious" |
Anonymous
| This is such a bizarre thread. People who know colleges definitely know cmc. Law schools definitely know cmc. Wall Street knows cmc. I’m a proud cmc graduate. Sure I could have gone to a state school, chose to go to a fantastic liberal arts college. |
Anonymous
| There has been more than a little strange boosterism of the Claremont schools this week here, very aggressive. |
Anonymous
Are they doing these things, or have done? No one wants to attend a work in progress. They may improve when they can boast about the new current features. |
Anonymous
W&L happens to be a top notch SLAC too! |
Anonymous
Currently in the process of finishing the science center, already have an entire faculty list hired and teaching next semester. You can already see much of the success through the enhanced financial aid and career opportunities given by the college. |
Anonymous
An annoying amount of talk for LACs in general. Someone keeps on boosting the thread to talk about them. |
Anonymous
I don’t see any comparably ranked “cheap state schools” on any of those three lists. The state schools are, as you would expect, Berkeley Michigan UCLA etc which are not easy to get into and are not cheap OOS. |
Anonymous
UVA does just fine for me. Excellent quality in fact. |
Anonymous
Did for us as well. and Claremont McKenna is now $91,414 a year. No thank you! Both of my kids went in-state Va and have done very well according to their respective gifts. |
Anonymous
DC chose it over Uchicago, so far serving him well, almost making as much as me (ahem $400k) 2 years out of college. Guess the "$360k" was worth it. |