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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yep.  If your kid is a boy and doesn't waqnt to bwe an engineer, you really just need to consider Pitzer, CMC, and Pomona.  Years ago when I was there Pitzer and CMC were polar opposites on the political spectrum.  CMC is more conservative with lots of economics majors and Pitzer was the hippie school where there were no specific graduation requriements and you were allowed to chart your own course entirely.  There are certainly exceptions, but that was the vibe back then.  Pomona, because it was the biggest had it's own "stand alone" cuture more tha the other four schools.  Based on this and on-line tours, you should be able to narrow it down to two. [/quote]

Yeah. Pitzer’s interesting. I have a kid at a Oberlin who looked at the Claremont schools but didn’t apply and a kid applying at SLACs, who has looked at the Claremont schools and Occidental.  And the three of us were talking this week about liberalism on college campuses.  And we all agree that there is a difference between schools that are intellectually liberal and schools that are culturally liberal.   It’s hard to explain, but there is a difference between a school where kids really put a lot of thought into what they believe and why, like Oberlin and Reed, and to a lesser extent Grinnell and Kenyon. And have the deep conversations about their beliefs and make conscious decisions based on that.  And, schools that happen to be in areas where the culture is liberal, and adopt the community vibe. Occidental seems very culturally liberal, in a Hey! Dude, it’s California, let’s have a toke a go surf sort of way.   My DD has liberal views but was like: nope. Wouldn't fit in. Huge culture shock. Pitzer seems to her to be more on the culturally liberal side too. I’m not sure I agree, because the community is so small and purposeful on things like environmental sustainability.  Kids really have to opt in to Pitzer. But, I do agree with her the vibe was weird.

I think Pitzer is a strong Yes or strong No for most kids without much in between.

She is applying to CMC[/quote]

Your last sentence doesn’t make sense in light of the preceding text.[/quote]

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