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Please clarify whether it's your kid or your kid's friends who are going to Claremont schools.  It seems very odd that your kid would &quot;love&quot; USC but pick a Claremont college.[/quote]

What a strange post.[/quote]

Not strange at all -there are wildly different  schools.[/quote]

Therefore an individual must love only one or the other? Not so.[/quote]

Well, it shows that the applicant hasn’t figured out the size of the school they want or the experience.USC has 60k students jn a very urban area west of LA proper. Lots of partying. Big football team. Enormous sorority scene. I lived in a rented room in one of the houses while teaching there. Many of the students are there for the social experience, not studies. The students wear their affluence on their sleeves. It is called University of Spoiled Children for a reason. There is IMHO too much emphasis on looks at USC

CMC is the opposite. Only 1300 students in a bucolic patch out in Riverside. Students are very serious about their work. Nerdy and pointy. Same with Pomona with 1700 students. No Greek scene. No big time football. No rah rah.[/quote]

It’s not the most desirable city in California. Some say Pomona is Pomtucky. [/quote]

Pomona is in Claremont, California.  What are you talking about?  Read and think before writing, maybe&gt;[/quote]

Maybe you should read and learn before you post. The Claremont colleges ARE in Pomona Valley which is how any So Cal person would refer to it.  I grew up there and have never even heard of the town of Claremont until this post. I’ve never even heard of it being a city. It has only 35,000 residents so it makes more sense to refer to it bring in Pomona Valley which is next to Riverside. My sister went to Scripps. I’ve been on campus many times. The city is nothing. The campus itself is bucolic, especially Scripps. The PPs point which has been lost on you because you want to act like means girls and pick at a description is that USC is huge and urban and the Claremont colleges are small and way out in the ‘burbs. Why don’t you address that. Everyone can look up a map, read wiki and repeat. But the valuable point it that a vast rah rah university like USC is not like a Slac in the burbs and that it is strange that sn applicant would be applying to both unless they had a SoCal or bust desire.[/quote]

My DS does not care where a school is, what it looks like, or who else goes there. At all. He is looking at academic programs and both schools have programs and specific professors he is very interested in. I realize that makes him sound like a Pomona kid, and maybe that will the the choice if he gets in, but he really loves the USC program and can happily ignore all the rest of the rah rah trappings. I do not understand this notion that a person can only be happy studying in one kind of setting.[/quote]

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