Taking Classes at the other colleges...

Colleges and Universities A-Z Scripps College
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<p>I've read conflicting reports on how easy it is for a Scripps student to take classes at the other 5C colleges. Some say it's no problem at all and some say "good luck..."</p>

<p>So, how reasonable is it for a Neuroscience major at Scripps to take a couple of Neuro classes at Pomona?
And how easy would it be for an econ major to take a couple of classes at CMC?</p>

<p>Do 5C students have preference at their own college, so that classes may fill and people from the other 4Cs can't get in? </p>

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<p>My daughter and I toured at both Scripps and Pitzer, and at both schools the response was the same: students at all 5 colleges can take classes at all 5 colleges. Every student we talked to said that they’d taken several classes at the other colleges, and that nearly every class you take at your own college will have students from the others in it.</p>

<p>I don’t know about preference. I do remember the tour guide saying that if you want to take a class and it’s full, you just show up on the first day of class and talk to the professor and you’ll probably get in anyway.</p>

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<p>Here is info from the Scripps website:</p>

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<p>My daughter at Mudd says her intro CS classes have many students from the other colleges. For this coming fall she has registered for some kind of Philosophy & Law class at Pomona, and is waitlisted for a psych class at CMC. Could it happen that your D can’t take a class she might want to? Yes. But that could happen at a larger university, too. And a smaller school wouldn’t even have the large list of course offerings a student gets at the Claremont colleges.</p>

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<p>Thanks for the responses. We overheard a Scripps senior discussing that Neuro was a tough major since it was hard to get into the classes she needed to graduate. It made me start to think about things, since I know Pomona has lots of Neuro classes as well. Wish I would have somehow found a way to politely enter the discussion, but I couldn’t. D likes Scripps a lot, and the consortium really seems to add to all the colleges, as long as they can really cross register. </p>

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<p>My daughter (a rising senior) has not ever been able to get into a CMC econ class. Each college naturally reserves most of the space in its classes for its own students, and other 5C students can only get what space is available if any.</p>

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<p>@CAorBust – I appreciate your response. I kind of thought this would be the case, but wanted to hear from people who know for sure. It is good to realize that the large course catalog of the 5Cs is not really available to the students there, unless they are lucky and find an empty seat. </p>

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<p>It completely depends on the class! </p>

<p>CMC Econ classes are notoriously difficult to get into and in no way reflect the norm of cross registration. </p>

<p>I also wouldn’t pay too much attention to that piece on the website. I am a rising junior and have taken a number of courses off campus – on multiple cases, I have been able to schedule my math classes in thanks to the increased number of offerings through the consortium. </p>