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[quote=Anonymous]When I went to Pomona, I cross registered & took classes at Scripps & Pitzer. Scripps at the time had a great art program -- several of my friends were art majors there.

re "amazing" community: the Claremont colleges have a SLAC feel that is very supportive. The advantage of the 5-college campus structure, as some have already pointed out, is that one can have strong relationships with & be well known by professors AND have access to the other campuses (kids, profs, classes, jobs). Each campus certainly has a diff flavor which is interesting/fun. The CC had a wonderful music scene at the time I attended -- bands would play at an all-day music festival on the Pitzer campus, and all of the Pomona fraternities (there were coed ones and all-male ones) had parties which hosted bands. My profs were smart, engaging, and seemed quite interested in teaching (rather than their research or publishing which could be the case, I suppose, at a larger univ). I lived off-campus for a few years, and although I didn't live in one of them, there were 'themed' houses some of my friends lived in focused on shared interests (Veggie House, International House etc.). Pomona was small enough that one could really assume leadership roles easily (I served on the student senate & helped organize a conference on global warming; was a writer for a feminist newspaper; had a work-study job I enjoyed that took me into LA to tutor kids). Social groups were quite fluid and people seemed really comfortable interacting with others quite different from themselves. The extent to which I have remained close to friends from college seems (anecdotally) to be stronger than other ppl I know, even those who went to SLAC -- except for my cousin who went to Carleton & also has a quite tight knit group she remains in touch with.

I liked Pomona very much & would send my children there -- largely because the quality of the profs was high -- but it had terrible career counseling. Maybe things are better now.[/quote]

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