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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The real bargain is Grinnell.  Excellent school that automatically gives $20k in merit aid to any student accepted ED and typically awards even more.  Many are turned off by the location,[b] but it's not like the other top LACs are in or near major metropolitan areas either. [/b] Our kid from the DMV attended and loved it.  [/quote]
Pomona, Wellesley, Barnard, Davidson…[/quote]

Carleton, Williams, Amherst, Middlebury[/quote]
I was specifically pointing out the LACs with locations near major metropolitan areas.[/quote]

Duh.  Very typical of DCUM.  I never meant to suggest that none of the top LACs are near metropolitan areas.  Obviously some are -- as you couldn't wait to jump up and prove me wrong.  My point was meant to be more general.  Grinnell is almost uniquely discounted for its rural location.[/quote]

The only LACs that can truly take advantage of their urban locations (within 15-ish minute drive of downtown) are Macalester, Occidental and maybe Reed. Mac and Oxy kids can hop over downtown to do internships in between classes the way the DC kids can at American or GW.[/quote]
DD is at Pomona and they take advantage of LA all the time. I really doubt that students choosing to live near a major metropolitan go 4 years ignoring it.[/quote]

Pomona (in Claremont) is 1 hour away from LA same as Carleton (in Northfield) is 1 hour away from Minneapolis. Yes they can take advantage of being an hour out from a city from time to time, but by no means are either in "urban" locations where they can be in the middle of the city within 15 minutes. C'mon now.[/quote]
My kid goes all the time. It’s a direct train to LA. oxy isn’t even in a nice area of LA- it’s going to take you an hour from oxy to get somewhere decent that isn’t silver lake and even that is an annoying bus ride.

If you’re allergic to long trips, LA isn’t for you, but there are nearly weekly trips from Claremont to LA, and students now have direct access to Pasadena due to the A line extension.

This ideas that Claremont students don’t go to LA often is strange. Pomona used to do challenges where students had to go to LA. This may blow your mind, but tens of thousands of people commute to LA everyday from the IE. it’s not exactly a harrowing journey.[/quote]

I have worked in LA so my mind is hardly blown. I was responding to a comment about LACs in urban locations. No one has ever called Claremont suburbs an urban location. Oxy is in Los Angeles, is 15 minutes by car from Pasadena and 15-20 minutes by car from DTLA. 5Cs just are not. Of course they go to LA sometimes but not 1-2x/daily for interviews or internships. My kid has friends at both schools. I currently live in CA and have visited both campuses multiple times. [/quote]

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