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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]“trying to make extravagant admitted students events”

There was nothing extravagant about CMC admitted students day that we attended.

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Word is they spent $575,000 on the fan fair. Seems pretty flashy to me.[/quote]

I'm sure they are all good schools in their own way. But my opinion after touring and researching both is that CMC is very tacky and not much better than U of Santa Clara. Pomona is the closest thing the west coast has to a New England style true liberal arts college. The reality is that CMC was a 3rd rate mens college until they decided to pull some tactics to climb up the rankings. The first one (falsifying admitted student SAT scores) went on for awhile before their fraud was discovered. Since then they've played with whatever criteria the rankings officials favored at the time (small classes of 2-3 students when class size was incented), or pushing students away from interests in philosophy and history and towards corporate consulting jobs so that average salary was higher, or jumping on the AI bandwagon by tying their so-called "integrated sciences" (with a flashy building) into a python meets biology mashup and eliminating the environmental engineering and other majors students really wanted. They also really focus on developmental donors and athletes. Pomona, in contrast, is not flashy and has always been the real deal.[/quote]

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