Anonymous
Post 04/18/2025 13:19     Subject: visiting the Claremont colleges - what do I need to know?
Anonymous wrote:Don’t know Harry Potter or LOR, can you put it in sex and the city characters?


Pomona = Carrie
Harvey Mudd = Miranda
Scripps = Charlotte
Pitzer = Aidan
CMC = Big
Anonymous
Post 04/18/2025 12:41     Subject: visiting the Claremont colleges - what do I need to know?
Don’t know Harry Potter or LOR, can you put it in sex and the city characters?
Anonymous
Post 04/18/2025 12:37     Subject: visiting the Claremont colleges - what do I need to know?
Anonymous wrote:If it helps, here's how the 5C kids describe their schools in Harry Potter "sorting hat" terms.

5C Schools as Hogwarts Houses:

1) Pomona = Griffindor
2) Harvey Mudd = Ravenclaw
3) Pitzer = Hufflepuff
4) CMC = Slytherin
5) Scripps = Beauxbatons (all-girls school from Goblet of fire)

So maybe that will help? Pitzer is seen as the most charitable, mission-oriented school, attracting very engaged and earnest students who want to do good things to impact their country, environment, and world. If that fits your DC I'd definitely visit. Pitzer also has by far the best dorms and food.

My DD is at Pomona and loves it! Good luck on your visit.


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Anonymous
Post 04/18/2025 12:06     Subject: visiting the Claremont colleges - what do I need to know?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:If it helps, here's how the 5C kids describe their schools in Harry Potter "sorting hat" terms.

5C Schools as Hogwarts Houses:

1) Pomona = Griffindor
2) Harvey Mudd = Ravenclaw
3) Pitzer = Hufflepuff
4) CMC = Slytherin
5) Scripps = Beauxbatons (all-girls school from Goblet of fire)

So maybe that will help? Pitzer is seen as the most charitable, mission-oriented school, attracting very engaged and earnest students who want to do good things to impact their country, environment, and world. If that fits your DC I'd definitely visit. Pitzer also has by far the best dorms and food.

My DD is at Pomona and loves it! Good luck on your visit.


Griffindor: Brave, intelligent, strong integrity, Harry, Hermione & Ron's house
Ravenclaw: Smart & intelligent
Hufflepuff: Kind and caring, Cedric's House.
Slytherin: Ambitious, fame-driven, smart but can fall prey to evil, Voldemort & Malfoy's house.
Beauxbatons: All-girls school in France, Fleur's house.


Haha, love it! My HM kid agrees!
Anonymous
Post 04/18/2025 12:05     Subject: visiting the Claremont colleges - what do I need to know?
Tour all 3. We did and based on that applied to two. Very close but different vibes.
Anonymous
Post 04/18/2025 12:03     Subject: visiting the Claremont colleges - what do I need to know?
Anonymous wrote:Staying in Pasadena is not a bad option - 30 minutes away and that is a great walkable city.


Pasadena is so much more fun than Claremont (which is really small). Also, you can tour Caltech and Oxy pretty easily from base of Pasadena too.
Anonymous
Post 04/18/2025 12:02     Subject: visiting the Claremont colleges - what do I need to know?
Anonymous wrote:If it helps, here's how the 5C kids describe their schools in Harry Potter "sorting hat" terms.

5C Schools as Hogwarts Houses:

1) Pomona = Griffindor
2) Harvey Mudd = Ravenclaw
3) Pitzer = Hufflepuff
4) CMC = Slytherin
5) Scripps = Beauxbatons (all-girls school from Goblet of fire)

So maybe that will help? Pitzer is seen as the most charitable, mission-oriented school, attracting very engaged and earnest students who want to do good things to impact their country, environment, and world. If that fits your DC I'd definitely visit. Pitzer also has by far the best dorms and food.

My DD is at Pomona and loves it! Good luck on your visit.


Griffindor: Brave, intelligent, strong integrity, Harry, Hermione & Ron's house
Ravenclaw: Smart & intelligent
Hufflepuff: Kind and caring, Cedric's House.
Slytherin: Ambitious, fame-driven, smart but can fall prey to evil, Voldemort & Malfoy's house.
Beauxbatons: All-girls school in France, Fleur's house.
Anonymous
Post 04/18/2025 11:52     Subject: visiting the Claremont colleges - what do I need to know?
Staying in Pasadena is not a bad option - 30 minutes away and that is a great walkable city.
Anonymous
Post 04/18/2025 11:36     Subject: visiting the Claremont colleges - what do I need to know?
Anonymous wrote:If it helps, here's how the 5C kids describe their schools in Harry Potter "sorting hat" terms.

5C Schools as Hogwarts Houses:

1) Pomona = Griffindor
2) Harvey Mudd = Ravenclaw
3) Pitzer = Hufflepuff
4) CMC = Slytherin
5) Scripps = Beauxbatons (all-girls school from Goblet of fire)

So maybe that will help? Pitzer is seen as the most charitable, mission-oriented school, attracting very engaged and earnest students who want to do good things to impact their country, environment, and world. If that fits your DC I'd definitely visit. Pitzer also has by far the best dorms and food.

My DD is at Pomona and loves it! Good luck on your visit.


Never read Harry Potter can you explain it in terms of Lord of the Rings?
Anonymous
Post 04/18/2025 11:16     Subject: visiting the Claremont colleges - what do I need to know?
Anonymous wrote:If it helps, here's how the 5C kids describe their schools in Harry Potter "sorting hat" terms.

5C Schools as Hogwarts Houses:

1) Pomona = Griffindor
2) Harvey Mudd = Ravenclaw
3) Pitzer = Hufflepuff
4) CMC = Slytherin
5) Scripps = Beauxbatons (all-girls school from Goblet of fire)

So maybe that will help? Pitzer is seen as the most charitable, mission-oriented school, attracting very engaged and earnest students who want to do good things to impact their country, environment, and world. If that fits your DC I'd definitely visit. Pitzer also has by far the best dorms and food.

My DD is at Pomona and loves it! Good luck on your visit.


this is spot on.
Anonymous
Post 04/18/2025 10:55     Subject: visiting the Claremont colleges - what do I need to know?
If it helps, here's how the 5C kids describe their schools in Harry Potter "sorting hat" terms.

5C Schools as Hogwarts Houses:

1) Pomona = Griffindor
2) Harvey Mudd = Ravenclaw
3) Pitzer = Hufflepuff
4) CMC = Slytherin
5) Scripps = Beauxbatons (all-girls school from Goblet of fire)

So maybe that will help? Pitzer is seen as the most charitable, mission-oriented school, attracting very engaged and earnest students who want to do good things to impact their country, environment, and world. If that fits your DC I'd definitely visit. Pitzer also has by far the best dorms and food.

My DD is at Pomona and loves it! Good luck on your visit.
Anonymous
Post 04/18/2025 04:04     Subject: visiting the Claremont colleges - what do I need to know?
Casa 425 is best place to stay if you can get a room.

Folk Music Center is a cool shop to check out even if you are not into folk.

Eats: Union (can't lose), Packing House Wines (amazing! world class...), Mt. Baldy Lounge (if you are driving & fancy some hiking).

Kid at CMC - LOVES it, but each of the 5C work for different kids/interests. Mine happens to be an extrovert bro interested in econ/philosophy. As parents - very happy with the education, experience, campus culture (friendly, supportive, positive, ambitious) & seeing the outcomes.

Anonymous
Post 04/17/2025 23:39     Subject: visiting the Claremont colleges - what do I need to know?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:to be fair the train station (new-ish) is a 2 minute walk from the Claremont college campus


And takes you to the not very convenient downtown Union Station, or Boyle Heights. Most tourists to Los Angeles stay 45 minutes plus away from this station on the west side.


When we visited schools in LA we stayed downtown and easily visited UCLA, USC, Claremont and Occidental. We Ubered to Occidental everything else was metro and train. It was clean, quick, not crowded, had a great app(showing times & options) and very convenient from our hotel to the metro. We walk out of our hotel and the metro was right outside. Beats the sh#t out of paying for a rental and hotel parking! By the second day we were going to lunch on the metro. Villa's Tacos Grand Central Market rock!

https://www.villastacos.com/

After the visits to the school we decamped by metro to Santa Monica for the last day of our trip.
Anonymous
Post 04/17/2025 23:05     Subject: visiting the Claremont colleges - what do I need to know?
Anonymous wrote:to be fair the train station (new-ish) is a 2 minute walk from the Claremont college campus


And takes you to the not very convenient downtown Union Station, or Boyle Heights. Most tourists to Los Angeles stay 45 minutes plus away from this station on the west side.
Anonymous
Post 04/17/2025 22:18     Subject: visiting the Claremont colleges - what do I need to know?
I am a Pitzer mom and will be helping at admitted students day tomorrow. The five Cs (seven if you count grad schools) each have a very different vibe. Yes walk thru Pitzer. The landscaping is incredible. The students are very socially conscious. The school instills responsibility into its community. Big fan.