Surprised at Claremont Mckenna
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Anonymous
What about the frat-hole, neo-conservative school is a "dream" |
Anonymous
A "middling" school ranked #11 out of 1,500 LACs.... ...I think it is time for some math lessons. |
Anonymous
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If you remove the three military/service academies from the T10, then Wesleyan, CMC, and Middlebury are in the T10.
The academies are amazing and deserve their rank as an indicator of excellence. Those who serve have my respect. But the schools are not a typical path, and I wouldn’t include them on a list for civilian education. To my thinking, the SLAC list should read like the National Uni list. Civilian schools only. The military stands apart. |
Anonymous
Claremont is a great college town. Of the 5 colleges, CMC does lean more conservative traditionally (lots of Econ, poly sci, philosophy majors). I went to Scripps and was there for reunion recently. CMC kids were partying just like they did 30 years ago. It’s a work hard/play hard place. Serious students. A little more fun than HMC or Pomona. Great school. |
Anonymous
No you are speaking without experience. Much nicer than 95 percent of southern Ca. |
Anonymous
This is exact. A lot of southern California looks like an abandoned wasteland with a massive warehouse being the only thing in sight. While the coast is gorgeous, many parts of LA are disgusting and blight. Claremont is a lovely little spot to go to college in or really just to live in. |
Anonymous
I can tell you from personal experience that HMC is not fun at all. CMC is not a little more fun that HMC, it is a lot more fun. |
Anonymous
| Great school. My kid attends one of the 5C and loves it! It’s the perfect learning environment for the right person. |
Anonymous
Harvey Mudd is the current party school of the Claremont Colleges and, while engineering coursework isn’t thrilling, they have a really fun dorm culture and lifestyle in general. Pomona has become the boring one. |
Anonymous
Unless they watered down the courses A LOT, this cannot be true. |
Anonymous
No they're still just as hard, and mudders are invisible during the week, but they drink habitually and its not uncommon to see them with borgs, doing cage fights, and blasting music at night. Pomona clamped down hard on party life and has become a dry place in general. CMC has the mediocre parties when Mudd isn't throwing. Mudd is hard, but the kids have time at 11pm on a saturday. It isn't purgatory. |
Anonymous
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My child is going to CMC in the fall and we are all thrilled. She had a lot of CA schools on the list and this was the smallest by far but in the end she thinks it will be a great fit. She’s interested in government/political science and had the extra curriculars to back it up-but she’s also intrigued by PPA and maybe PPE.
Read some recent stats that 80% of CMC Grads get into their first or second choice med schools, so the science things seem to be working out for them as well. |
Anonymous
I wonder how med schools will respond to their new, unprecedented major. Could be a bad future for CMC pre-meds... |
Anonymous
Med schools DGAF what you major in. They care that you take the bio, chem, etc. required courses, get A's in them, and crush the MCAT. They also want to see some research and/or practical medical experience. None of these things is a secret. |
Anonymous
This. But you have to drive through the wasteland to get to Claremont, the beach, the mountains, etc. |