<p>If your son liked Claremont McKenna, perhaps he’d enjoy Occidental. It’s slightly more urban than CMC, but still offers great weather, intelligent students, and plenty of ways to get involved on campus. </p>
<p>Santa Clara University is a medium sized Jesuit school with a wide variety of majors (although not as many as say, U Michigan or Miami Ohio) with intelligent students in Silicon Valley. </p>
<p>If you’d like a slightly larger LAC safety that like CMC is outside of a large city, your son might want to check out University of Puget Sound. Great academics, well run school, and plenty of merit aid. If your son is interested in political science and you need substantial merit aid (which btw basically means he’ll be in the top 25% of students at most schools which awards merit aid), Willamette University is worth considering. It’s literally across the street from the Oregon state capitol so internships are extremely common, and the students seemed extremely engaged when I toured.</p>
<p>For a more selective, but just as well rounded school in the Pacific Northwest, Whitman College is a great option.</p>