Pomona or Claremont McKenna

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Please clarify whether it's your kid or your kid's friends who are going to Claremont schools. It seems very odd that your kid would "love" USC but pick a Claremont college.

What a strange post.

Not strange at all -there are wildly different schools.

Therefore an individual must love only one or the other? Not so.

Well, it shows that the applicant hasn’t figured out the size of the school they want or the experience.USC has 60k students jn a very urban area west of LA proper. Lots of partying. Big football team. Enormous sorority scene. I lived in a rented room in one of the houses while teaching there. Many of the students are there for the social experience, not studies. The students wear their affluence on their sleeves. It is called University of Spoiled Children for a reason. There is IMHO too much emphasis on looks at USC

CMC is the opposite. Only 1300 students in a bucolic patch out in Riverside. Students are very serious about their work. Nerdy and pointy. Same with Pomona with 1700 students. No Greek scene. No big time football. No rah rah.

I am not trying to be difficulat, but CMC is NOT in Riverside. It is in Claremont. It is NOT in a bucolic location. It is in a town. The town is near freeways. The town is nice. I am not sure how you would not have known these things.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The Claremont schools are in Claremont, home of “trees and PhD’s.” The town is beautiful.

Beautiful might be a stretch, but it's nice. Quaint, if you will, to use a term favored by so many people here. It even kind of, sort of, feels like you're not even in southern CA, aside from the trees and the like. Not a university town by any means, and maybe dull for a student, but there are lots of very good restaurants there. And if one gets bored, LA, mountains, beaches and all that stuff isn't that far away.

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Please clarify whether it's your kid or your kid's friends who are going to Claremont schools. It seems very odd that your kid would "love" USC but pick a Claremont college.

What a strange post.

Not strange at all -there are wildly different schools.

Therefore an individual must love only one or the other? Not so.

Well, it shows that the applicant hasn’t figured out the size of the school they want or the experience.USC has 60k students jn a very urban area west of LA proper. Lots of partying. Big football team. Enormous sorority scene. I lived in a rented room in one of the houses while teaching there. Many of the students are there for the social experience, not studies. The students wear their affluence on their sleeves. It is called University of Spoiled Children for a reason. There is IMHO too much emphasis on looks at USC

CMC is the opposite. Only 1300 students in a bucolic patch out in Riverside. Students are very serious about their work. Nerdy and pointy. Same with Pomona with 1700 students. No Greek scene. No big time football. No rah rah.

It’s not the most desirable city in California. Some say Pomona is Pomtucky.

Pomona is in Claremont, California. What are you talking about? Read and think before writing, maybe>

[Anonymous]

To be fair, the City of Pomona is just south of it. Never heard it called “Pomtucky”. About 15 miles east is Fontana, which has a speedway and was called “Fontucky” however.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The Claremont schools are in Claremont, home of “trees and PhD’s.” The town is beautiful. [/quoti

I see you can read wiki

[Anonymous]

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Please clarify whether it's your kid or your kid's friends who are going to Claremont schools. It seems very odd that your kid would "love" USC but pick a Claremont college.

What a strange post.

Not strange at all -there are wildly different schools.

Therefore an individual must love only one or the other? Not so.

Well, it shows that the applicant hasn’t figured out the size of the school they want or the experience.USC has 60k students jn a very urban area west of LA proper. Lots of partying. Big football team. Enormous sorority scene. I lived in a rented room in one of the houses while teaching there. Many of the students are there for the social experience, not studies. The students wear their affluence on their sleeves. It is called University of Spoiled Children for a reason. There is IMHO too much emphasis on looks at USC

CMC is the opposite. Only 1300 students in a bucolic patch out in Riverside. Students are very serious about their work. Nerdy and pointy. Same with Pomona with 1700 students. No Greek scene. No big time football. No rah rah.

It’s not the most desirable city in California. Some say Pomona is Pomtucky.

Pomona is in Claremont, California. What are you talking about? Read and think before writing, maybe>

Maybe you should read and learn before you post. The Claremont colleges ARE in Pomona Valley which is how any So Cal person would refer to it. I grew up there and have never even heard of the town of Claremont until this post. I’ve never even heard of it being a city. It has only 35,000 residents so it makes more sense to refer to it bring in Pomona Valley which is next to Riverside. My sister went to Scripps. I’ve been on campus many times. The city is nothing. The campus itself is bucolic, especially Scripps. The PPs point which has been lost on you because you want to act like means girls and pick at a description is that USC is huge and urban and the Claremont colleges are small and way out in the ‘burbs. Why don’t you address that. Everyone can look up a map, read wiki and repeat. But the valuable point it that a vast rah rah university like USC is not like a Slac in the burbs and that it is strange that sn applicant would be applying to both unless they had a SoCal or bust desire.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The Claremont schools are in Claremont, home of “trees and PhD’s.” The town is beautiful. [/quoti

I see you can read wiki

My kid goes to Pomona. You clearly didn’t because your research is limited to Wikipedia.

[Anonymous]

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Please clarify whether it's your kid or your kid's friends who are going to Claremont schools. It seems very odd that your kid would "love" USC but pick a Claremont college.

What a strange post.

Not strange at all -there are wildly different schools.

Therefore an individual must love only one or the other? Not so.

Well, it shows that the applicant hasn’t figured out the size of the school they want or the experience.USC has 60k students jn a very urban area west of LA proper. Lots of partying. Big football team. Enormous sorority scene. I lived in a rented room in one of the houses while teaching there. Many of the students are there for the social experience, not studies. The students wear their affluence on their sleeves. It is called University of Spoiled Children for a reason. There is IMHO too much emphasis on looks at USC

CMC is the opposite. Only 1300 students in a bucolic patch out in Riverside. Students are very serious about their work. Nerdy and pointy. Same with Pomona with 1700 students. No Greek scene. No big time football. No rah rah.

I am not trying to be difficulat, but CMC is NOT in Riverside. It is in Claremont. It is NOT in a bucolic location. It is in a town. The town is near freeways. The town is nice. I am not sure how you would not have known these things.

Because people lie on the internet. You can say anything. Bucolic and Riverside in the same sentence was a dead giveaway.

[Anonymous]

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Please clarify whether it's your kid or your kid's friends who are going to Claremont schools. It seems very odd that your kid would "love" USC but pick a Claremont college.

What a strange post.

Not strange at all -there are wildly different schools.

Therefore an individual must love only one or the other? Not so.

Well, it shows that the applicant hasn’t figured out the size of the school they want or the experience.USC has 60k students jn a very urban area west of LA proper. Lots of partying. Big football team. Enormous sorority scene. I lived in a rented room in one of the houses while teaching there. Many of the students are there for the social experience, not studies. The students wear their affluence on their sleeves. It is called University of Spoiled Children for a reason. There is IMHO too much emphasis on looks at USC

CMC is the opposite. Only 1300 students in a bucolic patch out in Riverside. Students are very serious about their work. Nerdy and pointy. Same with Pomona with 1700 students. No Greek scene. No big time football. No rah rah.

It’s not the most desirable city in California. Some say Pomona is Pomtucky.

Pomona is in Claremont, California. What are you talking about? Read and think before writing, maybe>

Maybe you should read and learn before you post. The Claremont colleges ARE in Pomona Valley which is how any So Cal person would refer to it. I grew up there and have never even heard of the town of Claremont until this post. I’ve never even heard of it being a city. It has only 35,000 residents so it makes more sense to refer to it bring in Pomona Valley which is next to Riverside. My sister went to Scripps. I’ve been on campus many times. The city is nothing. The campus itself is bucolic, especially Scripps. The PPs point which has been lost on you because you want to act like means girls and pick at a description is that USC is huge and urban and the Claremont colleges are small and way out in the ‘burbs. Why don’t you address that. Everyone can look up a map, read wiki and repeat. But the valuable point it that a vast rah rah university like USC is not like a Slac in the burbs and that it is strange that sn applicant would be applying to both unless they had a SoCal or bust desire.

The Claremont Colleges are in Claremont. I have never heard another human being refer to it geographically as you have. Weird.

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My DD had trouble picking between the two because she preferred Pomona’s “vibe” but as an Econ major, saw the draw of CMC. Went with CMC because she thought it would be better for her post grad life (ended up being probably right but of course it’s hard to know) but hung out at Pomona a lot.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Please clarify whether it's your kid or your kid's friends who are going to Claremont schools. It seems very odd that your kid would "love" USC but pick a Claremont college.

What a strange post.

Not strange at all -there are wildly different schools.

Therefore an individual must love only one or the other? Not so.

Well, it shows that the applicant hasn’t figured out the size of the school they want or the experience.USC has 60k students jn a very urban area west of LA proper. Lots of partying. Big football team. Enormous sorority scene. I lived in a rented room in one of the houses while teaching there. Many of the students are there for the social experience, not studies. The students wear their affluence on their sleeves. It is called University of Spoiled Children for a reason. There is IMHO too much emphasis on looks at USC

CMC is the opposite. Only 1300 students in a bucolic patch out in Riverside. Students are very serious about their work. Nerdy and pointy. Same with Pomona with 1700 students. No Greek scene. No big time football. No rah rah.

It’s not the most desirable city in California. Some say Pomona is Pomtucky.

Pomona is in Claremont, California. What are you talking about? Read and think before writing, maybe>

Maybe you should read and learn before you post. The Claremont colleges ARE in Pomona Valley which is how any So Cal person would refer to it. I grew up there and have never even heard of the town of Claremont until this post. I’ve never even heard of it being a city. It has only 35,000 residents so it makes more sense to refer to it bring in Pomona Valley which is next to Riverside. My sister went to Scripps. I’ve been on campus many times. The city is nothing. The campus itself is bucolic, especially Scripps. The PPs point which has been lost on you because you want to act like means girls and pick at a description is that USC is huge and urban and the Claremont colleges are small and way out in the ‘burbs. Why don’t you address that. Everyone can look up a map, read wiki and repeat. But the valuable point it that a vast rah rah university like USC is not like a Slac in the burbs and that it is strange that sn applicant would be applying to both unless they had a SoCal or bust desire.

My DS does not care where a school is, what it looks like, or who else goes there. At all. He is looking at academic programs and both schools have programs and specific professors he is very interested in. I realize that makes him sound like a Pomona kid, and maybe that will the the choice if he gets in, but he really loves the USC program and can happily ignore all the rest of the rah rah trappings. I do not understand this notion that a person can only be happy studying in one kind of setting.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Please clarify whether it's your kid or your kid's friends who are going to Claremont schools. It seems very odd that your kid would "love" USC but pick a Claremont college.

What a strange post.

Not strange at all -there are wildly different schools.

Therefore an individual must love only one or the other? Not so.

Well, it shows that the applicant hasn’t figured out the size of the school they want or the experience.USC has 60k students jn a very urban area west of LA proper. Lots of partying. Big football team. Enormous sorority scene. I lived in a rented room in one of the houses while teaching there. Many of the students are there for the social experience, not studies. The students wear their affluence on their sleeves. It is called University of Spoiled Children for a reason. There is IMHO too much emphasis on looks at USC

CMC is the opposite. Only 1300 students in a bucolic patch out in Riverside. Students are very serious about their work. Nerdy and pointy. Same with Pomona with 1700 students. No Greek scene. No big time football. No rah rah.

It’s not the most desirable city in California. Some say Pomona is Pomtucky.

Pomona is in Claremont, California. What are you talking about? Read and think before writing, maybe>

Maybe you should read and learn before you post. The Claremont colleges ARE in Pomona Valley which is how any So Cal person would refer to it. I grew up there and have never even heard of the town of Claremont until this post. I’ve never even heard of it being a city. It has only 35,000 residents so it makes more sense to refer to it bring in Pomona Valley which is next to Riverside. My sister went to Scripps. I’ve been on campus many times. The city is nothing. The campus itself is bucolic, especially Scripps. The PPs point which has been lost on you because you want to act like means girls and pick at a description is that USC is huge and urban and the Claremont colleges are small and way out in the ‘burbs. Why don’t you address that. Everyone can look up a map, read wiki and repeat. But the valuable point it that a vast rah rah university like USC is not like a Slac in the burbs and that it is strange that sn applicant would be applying to both unless they had a SoCal or bust desire.

My DS does not care where a school is, what it looks like, or who else goes there. At all. He is looking at academic programs and both schools have programs and specific professors he is very interested in. I realize that makes him sound like a Pomona kid, and maybe that will the the choice if he gets in, but he really loves the USC program and can happily ignore all the rest of the rah rah trappings. I do not understand this notion that a person can only be happy studying in one kind of setting.

Agree, it's a subset of identity politics. Go sit in your box. Don't leave.

[Anonymous]

For women applying to CMC and/or Pomona, I would suggest also applying to Scripps, too. I know a number of young women who wanted CMC or Pomona but didn't get in. Their backup was Scripps. So they lived at Scripps and took classes at the other colleges. One tried the next year and the year after that to transfer to CMC but never got in.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:For women applying to CMC and/or Pomona, I would suggest also applying to Scripps, too. I know a number of young women who wanted CMC or Pomona but didn't get in. Their backup was Scripps. So they lived at Scripps and took classes at the other colleges. One tried the next year and the year after that to transfer to CMC but never got in.

Gosh, that sucks.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:For women applying to CMC and/or Pomona, I would suggest also applying to Scripps, too. I know a number of young women who wanted CMC or Pomona but didn't get in. Their backup was Scripps. So they lived at Scripps and took classes at the other colleges. One tried the next year and the year after that to transfer to CMC but never got in.

Gosh, that sucks.

Yeah. Sad story.