How do we feel about Claremont McKenna?

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Anonymous wrote:What's the timeline for completion of the various phases? Are they also planning on expanding enrollment numbers?

CMC is not expecting to expand enrollment numbers, but the new space allows them to make an even larger economics building/department, improve/integrate integrated sciences, and generally make an even better academic experience.

Pomona is expanding class sizes to about 2000 in the near future (after summer 2026)

CMC’s science building is pretty much done and on schedule open next month. I’d still expect a few hiccups but it’s there.

It’s such a bad idea for a department. I’m not sure why they’d invest in it when their entire thing is government and economics. Who goes to Claremont McKenna for science?

Almost no one as a sole major, which is why they’re doing a general integrated science major. They’re planning on students going into business and needing a foundational education is science. So I think it’ll commonly be a dual major with Econ.

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It's nice but we preferred Scripps and Pomona after touring all.

It does seem like it's very hard to get into because there are only 320 spots for freshmen. Wouldn't waste an ED spot on it, since there are very few non-sthlete/non-FGLI spots for normal applicants in that round.

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Anonymous wrote:You can read about their failed science department here: https://www.cmcforum.com/post/disintegrated-sciences

Yes it's a mess.

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Anonymous wrote:You can read about their failed science department here: https://www.cmcforum.com/post/disintegrated-sciences

Yes it's a mess.

What about it? They’ve hired many faculty, they’re opening a nice new building this year, and it sets them apart from Pomona and Mudd who obviously have better science departments.

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How has the department failed when it just opened up and their new building hasn't even finished?

These kind of things take time- give it a bit before making a judgement call

CMC is the most innovate elite LAC in the country. All of the rest are stagnant- it's the one that's heavily investing into AI, business, data science, and relevant interdisciplinary thinking for the workforce.

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Anonymous wrote:Did someone just compare a private college of 8000 across several schools in California (10% accept rate) to a state university with 27,000 students (50% accept rate) in Alabama?

Also we all know other SLACs and Ivies have similar bro vibes and groups--the activities are just inside and with a shirt on.

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Anonymous wrote:You can read about their failed science department here: https://www.cmcforum.com/post/disintegrated-sciences

Yes it's a mess.

What about it? They’ve hired many faculty, they’re opening a nice new building this year, and it sets them apart from Pomona and Mudd who obviously have better science departments.

Pomona and Mudd have outstanding science departments. CMC kids used to be able to fulfill their science distribution requirements there. Now they have to take weird interdisciplinary classes they are not interested in at the new integrated science center. The building looks great, but the substance of the curriculum is lacking IMO.

I am a biology professor and one of my colleagues interviewed for a position recently and she had several question marks about both the vision and practicalities. She's going to a UC instead. I do wonder what the school was thinking and especially since their current head has announced his resignation and that he will leave next year. Their new leader whenever that person is identified will have to figure out the vision and execution for this new direction. I think it was a very costly and weird place for them to invest.

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Anonymous wrote:You can read about their failed science department here: https://www.cmcforum.com/post/disintegrated-sciences

Yes it's a mess.

What about it? They’ve hired many faculty, they’re opening a nice new building this year, and it sets them apart from Pomona and Mudd who obviously have better science departments.

Pomona and Mudd have outstanding science departments. CMC kids used to be able to fulfill their science distribution requirements there. Now they have to take weird interdisciplinary classes they are not interested in at the new integrated science center. The building looks great, but the substance of the curriculum is lacking IMO.

I am a biology professor and one of my colleagues interviewed for a position recently and she had several question marks about both the vision and practicalities. She's going to a UC instead.[b] I do wonder what the school was thinking[url] and especially since their current head has announced his resignation and that he will leave next year. Their new leader whenever that person is identified will have to figure out the vision and execution for this new direction. I think it was a very costly and weird place for them to invest.

The reason they’re doing it so differently is CMC is thinking about the business practical side of science- not the actual science itself. You still have the option to take Pomona, Mudd, or Keck (department of natural sciences now) classes in science, but the purpose of a cmc integrated sciences grad isn’t to go to Pfizer as an immunologist, but rather to do operations research, for example. Their students are likely going into data analysis with a decent background in markov chains, neural networks, etc. CMC has always been more interested in “BIG DATA” than science, it’s their vibe. As a scientist, it’s annoying, but we need those types of people in science research.

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TOO CONSERVATIVE! Elon musk has considered donating

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Much more normal parents than whatever the “WASP” parents are blabbering about on numerous threads.

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Anonymous wrote:Much more normal parents than whatever the “WASP” parents are blabbering about on numerous threads.

Watch out. Visiting Pomona parents might wander over to CMC by mistake.

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Anonymous wrote:Much more normal parents than whatever the “WASP” parents are blabbering about on numerous threads.

Watch out. Visiting Pomona parents might wander over to CMC by mistake.

It’ll be fine. They’re too busy calling it a republican school, because they can’t handle viewpoint diversity, to know or care

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Anonymous wrote:We feel it's a good school, but DCUM isn't a place to find "centralized opinion." We're just random people on the internet.

What’s good about it? Dull campus with limited offerings.

Hahaha. You cannot have ever visited. The Clarence college campuses are the most beautiful I’ve seen. I have 3 kids and have been to many schools. None of mine applied but it’s not because the.college had nothing good about it.

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Anonymous wrote:It's nice but we preferred Scripps and Pomona after touring all.

It does seem like it's very hard to get into because there are only 320 spots for freshmen. Wouldn't waste an ED spot on it, since there are very few non-sthlete/non-FGLI spots for normal applicants in that round.

They admitted quite a few off the waitlist this year.

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Friend is a prof at one of the 5Cs. She advises her female students not to attend CMC parties alone. The bro culture is alive and well. DC liked the other 4 consortium members better. The campuses are all lovely.