<p>Zip cars are available to freshmen conveniently. I think the additional advantage of Claremont consortium is kids get to meet others whose interests are diverse. Each college has a distinctive culture drawing a particular group. If you don’t cross-register, you still get to meet them since they are all within a walking distance, engneers, socialists(?), feminists, future businessmen, politicians, not just other liberal arts majors. Compared to that, consortiums in the east is a deception to put it not so mildly. They also have an excellent study abroad program.</p>
<p>Mini wrote:
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<p>You’re absolutely right. I’m pretty sure West Point, the Air Force Academy and Annapolis all receive more federal funding than Wesleyan.*</p>
<p>*And, by federal funding I think the Wesleyan website includes funding from <em>all</em> federal sources, not just the National Science foundatioon.</p>
<p>Smith gets much more. (and is hardly military)</p>
<p>^^</p>
<p>[Smith</a> College: Insight](<a href=“http://www.smith.edu/insight/stories/nsf.php]Smith”>Smith College: Insight)</p>
<p>In the past 10 years Smith College has won more National Science Foundation (NSF) research funding over $14 million than any other select liberal arts college in the nation.</p>
<p>In determining this statistic, Davis calculated the publicly available information about NSF funding from 1999 to 2009 to the following colleges: Amherst, Barnard, Bowdoin, Bryn Mawr, Carleton, Colby, Colgate, Franklin and Marshall, Grinnell, Hamilton, Haverford, Middlebury, Mount Holyoke, Oberlin, Pomona, Reed, Skidmore, Swarthmore, Vassar, Wellesley, Wesleyan, Williams, and more than a dozen other liberal arts institutions.</p>
<p>NSF Awards 1999-2011 (in order of mention on this thread)</p>
<p>Pomona $7,358,630 1550 undergrads
Wesleyan $17,186,974 3149 (undergrads and grads)
Smith $16,571,932 2614 undergrads (not counting grad students)
Haverford $10,799,117 1190 undergrads</p>