Anonymous
03/26/2025 14:43
Subject: Pomona v Tufts
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote: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.
They're the same size.
Tufts is 6800, Pomona 1700.
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.
A consortium is not the same as a university. Stick to apples to apples comparisons.
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-
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.
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.
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.
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
Anonymous
03/26/2025 09:47
Subject: Pomona v Tufts
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote: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.
They're the same size.
Tufts is 6800, Pomona 1700.
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.
A consortium is not the same as a university. Stick to apples to apples comparisons.
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-
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.
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.
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.
Anonymous
03/26/2025 07:36
Subject: Pomona v Tufts
Tufts. Easy flight from DCA.
Anonymous
03/26/2025 01:06
Subject: Pomona v Tufts
A lot of people are misunderstanding the Claremont colleges. It is not like the 5 colleges in Amherst, where students may take a class or two during their entire time in undergrad. It is not uncommon for a student to take 1-2 classes off campus per semester, other than at Mudd due to core.
Having a class of students entirely from one school is rare, unless in a special program like PPE at CMC or clinic at Mudd
Having a class of students entirely from one school is rare, unless in a special program like PPE at CMC or clinic at Mudd
Anonymous
03/26/2025 01:02
Subject: Pomona v Tufts
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote: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.
They're the same size.
Tufts is 6800, Pomona 1700.
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.
A consortium is not the same as a university. Stick to apples to apples comparisons.
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-
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.
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.
Anonymous
03/25/2025 23:24
Subject: Pomona v Tufts
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote: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.
They're the same size.
Tufts is 6800, Pomona 1700.
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.
A consortium is not the same as a university. Stick to apples to apples comparisons.
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-
Np. This is a huge stretch. The fact that the Claremont consortia schools can cross-register for those who are interested does not change the enrollment size of Pomona. Are you thinking that the students at all 4 other schools attempt to register for all their classes at Pomona? That would be completely absurd and untrue. The bottom line is that OP’s child has two amazing schools to choose from. Good for them. They’ll be fine either way.
The discussion on school size was about finding your people, not registering for classes.
Anonymous
03/25/2025 22:44
Subject: Pomona v Tufts
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote: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.
They're the same size.
Tufts is 6800, Pomona 1700.
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.
A consortium is not the same as a university. Stick to apples to apples comparisons.
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-
Np. This is a huge stretch. The fact that the Claremont consortia schools can cross-register for those who are interested does not change the enrollment size of Pomona. Are you thinking that the students at all 4 other schools attempt to register for all their classes at Pomona? That would be completely absurd and untrue. The bottom line is that OP’s child has two amazing schools to choose from. Good for them. They’ll be fine either way.
Anonymous
03/25/2025 22:11
Subject: Pomona v Tufts
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote: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.
They're the same size.
Tufts is 6800, Pomona 1700.
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.
A consortium is not the same as a university. Stick to apples to apples comparisons.
LOL. They are extremely similar in size when it comes to “finding your people”.
Anonymous
03/25/2025 17:50
Subject: Pomona v Tufts
They are both great schools with strong academics and talented students. Your kid will do well in life with a degree from either. Just visit and pick the one kid likes best.
Anonymous
03/25/2025 17:19
Subject: Pomona v Tufts
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote: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.
They're the same size.
Tufts is 6800, Pomona 1700.
Pomona is part of the most academically and socially integrated consortium in the US. The collective undergraduate population is around 6,000. It's not your typical LAC.
Which is great because this thread is not about "Your Typical LAC vs Tufts"
Anonymous
03/25/2025 17:13
Subject: Pomona v Tufts
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote: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.
They're the same size.
Tufts is 6800, Pomona 1700.
Pomona is part of the most academically and socially integrated consortium in the US. The collective undergraduate population is around 6,000. It's not your typical LAC.
Anonymous
03/25/2025 17:01
Subject: Pomona v Tufts
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote: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.
They're the same size.
Tufts is 6800, Pomona 1700.
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.
A consortium is not the same as a university. Stick to apples to apples comparisons.
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-
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.
Anonymous
03/25/2025 16:35
Subject: Pomona v Tufts
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote: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.
They're the same size.
Tufts is 6800, Pomona 1700.
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.
A consortium is not the same as a university. Stick to apples to apples comparisons.
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-
Anonymous
03/25/2025 16:32
Subject: Pomona v Tufts
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote: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.
They're the same size.
Tufts is 6800, Pomona 1700.
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.
A consortium is not the same as a university. Stick to apples to apples comparisons.
Anonymous
03/25/2025 16:10
Subject: Pomona v Tufts
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote: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.
They're the same size.
Tufts is 6800, Pomona 1700.
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.