Thanks! I applied to CMC and was able to get an interview. I think its a better fit for me as well. Today has been a rough day of decisions with no acceptances but you win some and you lose some. College decisions act in strange ways. Best of luck to your D.
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For those of you waitlisted, is there a deadline to reply/accept the waitlist?
Thanks! Good luck to you - especially with CMC. My older D is a senior there and has had a great experienceā¦esp before Covid. Wondering which other pages we will see you onā¦
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@Onlineschoolworkstoo and @BMurphy2827 can you expand on your fit comments re Pitzer and CMC? My D22 is considering both ā poly sci with strong civic engagement ECs.
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Congrats! Does your school have similar results with the other Claremontās, or is it primarily Pitzer? My D attends a large public HS and every year several kids apply, but itās pretty rare to get in. I feel like a WL for her is awesome.
CMC has an emphasis on business that I havenāt been able to find at many liberal arts colleges. I also run my own limited partnership investment fund outside of school and the CMC student investment fund is something that stuck out to me when learning about CMC. The Randall Lewis Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship has a lot of opportunities for entrepreneurship that are appealing as well. Pitzer has an emphasis on the natural sciences that I also find interesting but considering what I am currently interested in and pursuing, CMC seems like the Claremont college for me.
I hope this answers your question!
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Do you have a realistic sense of how it is to take classes across the consortium if your interests span 2 schools?
I donāt know enough about taking classes across the consortium to answer your question. I heard from a current student that depending on the school you attend it can be harder to double major due to the different core curriculum requirements at each of the 5Cās. But from conversations with students I was told it was easy to take classes at different colleges.
I hope this helps but I bet someone else could give a more helpful answer.
From my understanding it is quite easy to take classes on any other campus as long as the same class isnāt already offered at your primary campus. The exception to that are classes like CS at Harvey Mudd which can be much harder to get cross registration at. Someone please correct me if Iām wrong but that is the idea I got when I did information sessions at all the 5 Cās other than HMC. I was just accepted to Pitzer and it is definetly one of my top picks so I plan to do a lot more research on the consortium as a whole.
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The motto of CMC is something like learning to do, doing to learn and they take it seriously. It is pervasive. One student, (who I happen to know very well,) is majoring in science management with a public health focus. Courses taken include general chem, general bio, but also accounting and upper level finance courses. (May be headed toward Hospital startup, HR at CDC something that needs all those skills and understanding.) She is also senior manager of a consulting group on campus where students are paid to consult with local nonprofits about creating boards of directors, managing fundraising, marketing, basically what ever that nonprofit needs. In the course of this experience, she has work as consultant, built out the website, learned to manage others, including revamping hiring practices to be accessible to all communities, raised funds, served on college committees and dealt with balancing budgets and creating policies and procedures. She has access to professors and other staff on campus who she can rely on for advice, and on a couple of occasions, has presented projects about her work in her classes. Basically at CMC, you donāt just learn the theory, you practice it and bring it back to the classroom and visa versa. When I hear a HS student mention the word āstartupā I think about CMC.
CMC is arguably the most conservative of the CCās, and Pitzer is arguably the most liberal. Students at CMC will regularly wear business clothes around campus because they have a meeting or interview or networking event to attend. They can be out-doors people too. They seem to be very fitness conscious. If you go for sports, you are rooting for the Stags and Athenas. (Just wondering when the non-binary option will come outā¦we said he and she, now we say their, so yeah, you heard it predicted here firstā¦)
Pitzerās motto is āProvida Futuri ā mindful of the futureā so think protecting the environment and social policy, (but I think that is a bit to narrow a description.) I donāt know a lot about Pitzer students in spite of the fact that I went to Pomona. The campus is minimalist in architecture and landscape and they do have access to some stellar 5 C operations like the organic garden. If you are vegan, you will have found the mother ship, otherwise, you might be eating at the other colleges a lot. You will not be wearing business clothes on a regular basis, but you will have to put on some clothes and shoes to enter the dining hall. You do have the absolutely coolest mascot in the entire world: Cecil Sagehen. (Yup, he is a chicken, or maybe a desert grouse, or something, but we love him.)
Overall, Claremont is amazing. If you go to one of the CCās, engage at the other colleges and enjoy the sunshine and views of the mountains.
This is long so I will end here, this is just a tiny glimpse and in no way does it paint the entire picture. Chirp!
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Congrats! What are you planning to take on the other campuses? I can ask a good source and get back to you. I know that some classes are def harder than others. Reaching out the professors is helpful, and it does get easier as you go, (Seniors get the best registration times and then juniorsā¦and down.)
Thanks @Onlineschoolworkstoo. I am not 100% set on pitzer as I applied ED2 to pomona but did not get in and am still waiting to here from the other 5 Cās and some other colleges. If I do attend I would be looking to take some education classes through the Claremont Graduate School as I am planning to be an elementary school teacher.
Hi Everyone!
Iām a little late but I was also accepted for the class of 2025. I am very very fortunate for this acceptance as it was a great surprise. I have a GPA of 3.7uw and 4.0w. I have taken 6 total AP classes and 17 dual enrollment courses. I am in the top 30% of my school. I did not submit my SAT and did not have an interview. I attended a few Pitzer sessions and interacted with my admissions counselor. I hope this is able to help future students as perfect stats are not as important as being the right fit. I will most likely attend!!
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Is it the preference given by grade level and not particular college? For example, if a freshman at pitzer wants to take a language class at cmc she will have just as good a chance as a freshman at cmc? My D is under the impression that registration is open across the 5cās. Thank you for any insight you have on this!
To my understanding itās hard to cross register the first year specifically the first semester but there are exceptions if you talk to your advisors.
I am a little tech challenged so forgive me if I have now posted this long response 2x.
(First I will say that I am not an expert on this topic, although I am a PO grad and I did consult with a current Claremont Colleges senior on this topic. I apologize if something was lost in translation or if I am just plain wrong about something. If you have better info, by all means, post and help out.)
With regard to cross registering for classes at the other Claremont Colleges, here is what I have learned:
- It does indeed depend.
- Restrictions on registering for a class can come several players.
- There are the usual restrictions, you canāt take another course that covers the same material, you canāt take a course for which you have not met the prerequisite requirements. You cannot take a course if it is full (unless you successfully lobby the prof.)
- In general, seniors have priority in registering, then juniors and on down. However, there are some classes and more often some professors that will only allow a certain levels in their class. An example of this is one particular accounting class at CMC will only allow freshmen and sophomores because it is a class that is used to ārecruitā accounting majors.
- In some circumstances, those majoring in a particular field will get priority in classes. This makes sense because some of the courses are only offered spring or fall or sometimes only once every two years. With prereqs and travel abroad, usually those majors only have one chance to take that class. So, to recap on this one, there are quite a few courses that you have very little chance of having the opportunity to take if you do not major in that field.
- The individual colleges have courses that they only let their own students into. Conversely, there are courses that your school will only take at there. Letās take general chemistry as an example. It is offered at Pomona and at Joint Sciences. Although these are both āgeneral chemistryā classes, they are NOT THE SAME class. (āOne will make you stronger and the other will kill you.ā JK, but yeah.) Back in the day, I got the memo on Pomonaās GCHEM class after watching my freshman year roommate and the agony. I opted to take GCHEM at the Joint Sciences program instead. Apparently, this is not an option anymore. If you are a Pomona student, you take chem at Pomona and if you are not, you donāt. Donāt worry PO students, you are a lot smarter than I am if you got into Pomona this year, I am sure of that.
- Schools will define which courses can fulfill your major requirements, of course, but they will also define which classes can count for your general ed requirements. (You are signing up for a liberal arts school, remember?) Some classes just wonāt count for the grad reqs. This is not a complete stop on taking a course, but if you are double majoring or even dual majoring, you are not going to have a lot of space to take classes that do not tick a box. That said, one of my Ds friends is BRILL and 4 classes just arenāt enough for him. He takes 5. At one point I think he got a call from the registrar to tell him that he could not sign up for 6. The prof let him audit. DO NOT TRY THAT AT HOME, KIDS! Four classes is enough to crush a mere mortal. I ended up with three second semester of my freshman year after dropping from one. It happens.
- Some classes will make you write a paper to get in. Those are super rare. Donāt worry about it.
- To combine thoughts from 3 and from 6, if you canāt get into the prereq class because you donāt go to that school, you cannot take the class. (HMC esp.)
- When you go to register, the course will list who it is open to. I might say CMC students - Open and biology majors - Open. I believe this means that if you are a bio major on another campus, you can register for the class, and if you are any CMC student with the prereqs you can get in as well.
So if you are thinking that the line about how you can take 47 million classes (exaggerating since I donāt know the number) is a bunch of hooey, well I agree with you. You cannot choose from just any of those classes, but for each class listed, someone can sign up for it, just maybe not you. What is not marketed and what I think is far more valuable, is the fact that there are professors at the Claremont Colleges who know about and are passionate about all of those topics. (I am about to make up an example, but go with me for a secā¦) If you are at one school with a passion for furniture of the Romans, and there is a professor at another school who happens to be into the same or a similar topic, send them an email, go to their office hours to ask for book recommendations, ask them to lunch, ask if you can be their research assistant. You donāt need to suck up to them, just talk sincerely about your interests and why you would like to know more. Professors like students who are going to be engaged in their classes. They also like good students. You can absolutely get into classes which are full or otherwise have a barrier by showing an true interest in the topicā¦some of the time. Of note, many juniors and seniors will register for 5 classes and drop the one they donāt like after a week, so figure out what you have to do to grab the spotā¦there may be formal waitlist*. (*Sorry, excuse my language.) Every prof is different on these things, but it is the Claremont Colleges and most professors are about helping the passionate student devoted to their academic field.
I can hear the band playing me off so I will leave you with these bits of wisdom about choosing classes. Do not chose your classes by how cool the titles are or how famous the prof is. JUST DONāT. If you want to make the most out of your 32 or so undergrad class slots, do two things: A) Read the course catalog from cover to cover early on. Make a list of the classes that you think you might want to take and note if the class is only offered every other year or in just spring or just fall. B) Ask everyone, your advisor, yes, but especially upperclassmen and women about the class, how many papers, tests, is the prof interesting, organized, is the subject compelling? Donāt just ask if it is good, or if they liked it, ask why!
So can you cross register at the Claremont Colleges for the classes you want? Final answer: it depends.
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Congrats to everyone- I was accepted too!
stats: 4.0 UW, 8 AP/IB classes, no SAT
Interview went very well, and essay showed great fit imo
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Does anyone know Pitzerās acceptance rate this year?