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[quote=Anonymous][quote]  SoCal is sprawling and huge. Claremont is in a 10 mile circle to almost a million people, and even then you're still 20 miles away from Los Angeles.  [/quote]

These schools are not located in remotely comparable communities.  One is in a congested LA suburb; one is in essentially a (three-) college town in rural western Mass.
   
Pomona/Claremont is in LA County, in the endless sprawl between the 210 and the 10 going east from LA and Pasadena toward Ontario and Riverside.
   
Amherst (whose population density is about half that of Claremont) is a smaller community, most of whose residents are associated with the schools there, and is surrounded by miles of forest and farmland.  It's not a "suburb" (except that the brain trust at the Census Bureau arbitrarily decided that most of mostly rural western Mass from the Vermont border to the Connecticut border would be considered part of "metro Springfield").   There may be a small number of people who like Amherst enough to commute 25 miles to Springfield (which, for context, has fewer people than Alexandria), but no one in the history of recorded time has ever commuted from Amherst to Hartford.

It's like comparing Frederick MD and Chantilly VA.      [/quote]

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