<p>Because of their cross-enrollment policies, I'm not sure I understand why it would be better to attend Pomona than say Claremont McKenna- or why you wouldn't apply to all of them if you wanted to attend a Claremont college. </p>
<p>And what would happen if you went to CMC, and decided that you wanted to switch majors from econ to engineering? Would you be transfered over to Mudd?</p>
<p>True, the Claremont Colleges does have cross enrollment. However, I don't think you can earn a degree from any of the schools except for the one you attend. This is excluding special programs like the Economics-Engineering one where 2 degrees are earned in 5 years. For example, if you attend CMC, you can't get a BA in computer science from HMC, but you can take computer science courses at HMC for credit.</p>
<p>If your looking to decide between which of the Claremont Colleges to go to, base it off of your planned major. If you want to study economics, government, etc, go to CMC. HMC is great for technology-related majors.</p>
<p>There's a limit to how many classes you can take through cross-enrollment.</p>
<p>The school's student populations are pretty different from one another - if you visit you'll see it immediately.</p>
<p>As mentioned above, cross-registration has restrictions. At Pomona, you can't cross-register at all the first semester and for only one course max per semester the rest of the first two years. In addition, some access is limited. This became a big issue a little over a year ago when Claremont starting restricting access to some classes. Some alleged their attempt to keep class size below the magic 20 (as opposed to the low 20s) was instituted to game US News numbers. This caused some understandable conflict on campus.
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<p>In case other students come looking for the info, I just wanted to link threads: </p>