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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Hm.  I grew up in LA, went to USC, and spent the summer at Scripps in the dorms one summer.  I think they all had AC but truthfully couldn't swear to it.  Maybe Scripps didn't?

Everyone I know in LA does have AC, and the inland valleys get really hot, but they do cool down at night usually.   The problem is that sometimes the buildings absorb so much heat during the day that it takes them a while to cool down at night.  With the temperatures getting warmer around the globe, Sept. and May are hotter than they used to be. [/quote]

This! We now live in Southern California a couple miles from the coast. We have to turn on our air conditioning for about 20 minutes in the evenings when it has been a hot day just to cool down the house or it is tough to comfortably fall asleep.

According to a 2017 article in the student newspaper during heatwave in September

"At Claremont McKenna College, 10 of the 14 residence halls are air-conditioned, and seven of Scripps’ nine have AC. All of Harvey Mudd and Pitzer College’s residence halls have air conditioning." The article also clarifies 38% of the 16 dorms at Pomona have air conditioning Norton, Oldenborg, Harwood, Mudd-Blaisdell, Ivon Court, Gibson. 87% of dorms in the other 5Cs have air conditioning, on average. 853 Pomona students live in a dorm with no air conditioning.

You can get used to living without AC but I would be annoyed if I were paying 89K a year to a college for my child to live on campus in an area with extreme heat without AC. [/quote]
It’s interesting the TSL got this so wrong. Hardwood, Gibson, And “Lyon” Court do not have AC, nor do any Clark dorms (including Norton). It’s actually very hard to get a dorm at Pomona WITH AC: Mudd/Blasidell, Sontag/Dialynas (seniors only with a few juniors sprinkled in), Oldenborg (must speak a language and get a rec letter from a language faculty member to get into a language hall). It can kinda suck for the first few week if you're on the second or third floor of the very old south campus dorms and your room is unreasonably hot, but most of the dorms are pretty solid and are aided by the common rooms/lounge having AC. Most of the school year (after the first two or three weeks really), everything is solid. [/quote]

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