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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 advantages of tufts are its size and location. SLACs are great if you find your people relatively quickly but can be isolating if you don’t. [/quote]
They're the same size.[/quote]

Tufts is 6800, Pomona 1700.  [/quote]
Pomona is a part of continuous consortium of campus attached to the hip who participate in daily academic, sports, and social life- it has 6000 undergrads.  Unless you think the separate colleges of tufts are islands where students between can’t interact, these schools are roughly equivalent in undergraduate size.[/quote]

A consortium is not the same as a university. Stick to apples to apples comparisons.[/quote]
Very fundamentally different. Cause in a normal university, people of different colleges can't take classes together or eat in the same dining hall...oh wait-[/quote]

In a normal university, you don’t have to see if there is room left after all the kids from the home college have registered.[/quote]
That's not how registration works at the 5Cs. Everyone registers at the same time for the same classes.
Also, that statement isn't even true. There's colleges where you have to wait for there to be space available if you are looking for a competitive class in another college. 
A Pitzer student will enter a Pomona history class at the same time as a Pomona student. [/quote]

Students complain about priority registration, i.e. priority to students from that college.  Interestingly, Pomona  does not do this as much as the other consortium colleges so their students get the worst of both worlds, losing out to kids from other colleges when registering for a Pomona class and then getting block from a H-M or C-M class because they do give priority to their students.[/quote]
Harvey mudd gives priority to core classes, because the kids need to graduate. DD has taken multiple physics and math courses-there’s no priority. You’ll run into priority issues with cmc Econ but Pomona students aren’t supposed to be taking cmc Econ classes in the first place. This is not an actual issue according to DD[/quote]

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