<p>Hey all!</p>
<p>I recently visited the Claremont schools randomly because I was in the area after getting back from a cruise. I really liked the campus, but I know next to nothing about the schools (except for harvey mudd obviously).</p>
<p>What are the specialties of each school? How is the pre med advising? etc?</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>CMC has a great business program and has alot of flexibility in regards to majors. A great place if you want an interdisciplinary major or want flexibility.</p>
<p>^ CMC has a great business program? Are you sure?
I haven’t’ even heard that CMC has a business program until you said it now.</p>
<p>OP,</p>
<p>Pomona is great for premed.
Mudd for science and engineering
overall, the Claremont Colleges are top 5 in California in terms of prestige, quality of instruction (academic standard) and opportunities after graduation.
But it’s best to deal Claremont individually.</p>
<p>CMC is a pretty small LAC of 1200 u/g of which about 1/4 seem to be enrolled in the Robert Day School of Economics and Finance:</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.claremontmckenna.edu/rdschool/academic/undergraduate/[/url]”>http://www.claremontmckenna.edu/rdschool/academic/undergraduate/</a></p>
<p>Hey!</p>
<p>I’m glad you enjoyed The Claremont Colleges, it is a really unique set of schools. That said, I would echo RML’s point to deal with them each separately. Although they do share the consortium and many facilities, they are all very different colleges with different flavors, personalities, and strengths/weaknesses. For an overall (and official) answer to your questions about each of the Colleges, I would direct you here: [Welcome</a> to Claremont.EDU](<a href=“http://www.claremont.edu/about.htm]Welcome”>http://www.claremont.edu/about.htm) . This consortium site will give you the blurb about each college. </p>
<p>To more personally answer your question, each school has a different strength in mind, but 3 out of the 5 are simply excellent co-ed LACs. </p>
<p>Scripps is a Women’s College, which from your screenname I don’t think you’ll be applying to. </p>
<p>Pomona is the founding member, with a very wide breadth of requirements and very much a “classic” liberal arts education. I don’t know much about pre-med advising there. </p>
<p>Harvey Mudd, as you already know, is an excellent school for engineering. </p>
<p>Claremont McKenna is a rounded liberal arts college, but is fairly focused on economics and government. </p>
<p>Pitzer is another one of the three coed LACs with a focus on the social sciences, intercultural understanding and interdisciplinary studies. </p>
<p>Pitzer, Claremont McKenna, and Scripps share their science department, known at the Colleges as Joint Science. The Joint Science Department is located in the Keck Science center, which is located relatively in the middle of CMC, Pitzer, and Scripps campuses. </p>
<p>The department offers pre-health advising ([Pre-Health</a> Advising](<a href=“http://www.jsd.claremont.edu/Prehealth/Default.asp]Pre-Health”>http://www.jsd.claremont.edu/Prehealth/Default.asp)) as well. </p>
<p>As for medical school acceptance rates, Joint Science officially states that “Approximately 80% of Joint Science students are admitted within two years of graduation for medical school. Acceptance for dental and veterinary schools is estimated at 85%”</p>
<p>I’m sorry I don’t know more about Pomona’s pre-med. Anyways, I hope that this information on the Colleges and the pre-med at CMC, Pitzer, and Scripps helps you out. </p>
<p>Good luck!</p>
<p>The stereotypes of each of the schools is as follows (according to my sister, a junior at Pitzer)</p>
<p>Pomona is the “best” and doesn’t have one specialty. They are good in mostly everything. It’s larger than the other four so the students are harder to stereotype. The other four schools kind of think Pomona is full of themselves. </p>
<p>CMC is the most conservative of the five and is know for it’s amazing government and economics programs. It’s the “party school” of the five, lots of drinking. Very social and very into athletics.</p>
<p>Scripps is the womens college. Known for having students that study a lot. Great in foreign languages and sociology, anthropology. Pretty dorms.</p>
<p>Pitzer is the smallest and newest. Known for being a “hippie” school ( though administration seems to be trying to chang this image, to the students horror). Students are social on an eccentric kind of way. Very gay/lesbian friendly.</p>
<p>Finally, Harvey Mudd. Techie school. Basically 900 nerds who run around, climb buildings, set couches on fire and ride unicycles. Always a fun time if you’re into that! An excellent but sadly underrated school for engineering and math.</p>
<p>Also remember that students can take classes at any campus. There’s a lot of mixing both academically and socially.</p>
<p>I have 5 (6?) friends at Pomona who are considering pre-med and love their advisors. If you’re admitted, you’ll write a letter about what you want in your advisor and the school uses it to make pretty good matches.</p>
<p>Harvey Mudd is sadly underrated? By whom?
I think of it as the LAC version of MIT (with average SAT scores to match.)
If I had a nerdy unicycle-riding couch-burning kid, I’d be proud to have him there.
It definitely beats jail as a parent-pleasing outcome for arsonist children.</p>
<p>Wow guys! Thanks so much for the info. That helped out a lot. Happy new years and cheers!</p>
<p>I got accepted to Harvey Mudd, and I’m hella excited</p>
<p>But sadly it’s not a place for pre-med.</p>
<p>^I remember touring CMC, and the guide saying that Harvey Mudd students who apply to medical schools have a close to 100 percent acceptance rate in getting into their top 2 choice medical school. Obviously statistics don’t tell everything, (we don’t know if Harvey Mudd purposely prevents some students from applying if they don’t have high qualifications).</p>
<p>Pre-med is not a major. You could technically major in anything at any school and receive a bachelors degree in that major and do the pre med requirements on the side of your major.</p>
<p>^
Interesting… but beware that it came from a CMC student who probably think very highly of Harvey Mudd academics.</p>
<p>Well, I’m not even a student yet so I can’t give a guaranteed say about this, but most Harvey Mudd students discourage to pursue pre-med in Harvey Mudd.</p>
<p>Perhaps you could ask this question in one of the Claremont schools’ forum. You might get more responses. </p>
<p>From what I heard, the economics program at CMC is really good.</p>
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Haha I’m a nerdy Mudd girl but I don’t do any of those activities mentioned there. Just saying ^^;</p>
<p>maruhan2</p>
<p>where else have u been accepted?</p>
<p>He EDed to Muddddd</p>
<p>^
haha, as fiona said</p>
<p>liek0806 (post 11): When I toured CMC last year I also remember hearing that 100% of premed students got into their top 2 choices of med schools, but our tour guide was speaking of CMC students not HMC students.</p>
<p>^ I doubt that. Not even Harvard or Stanford has 100% passing rate to med schools and either school is significantly superior to CMC.</p>
<p>^^^I can’t confirm or deny the statistic. It was mentioned during our spring of 09 tour and I believe they were referring to the class of 08. Obviously CMC has far fewer students represented in that 100%. What this said to me was that the pre med program is very respectable and that pre med students have an excellent chance of achieving their goals. I wouldn’t use this statistic to compare the quality of these schools even if the 100% rate is accurate, there are way too many variables involved.</p>