Claremont Colleges

Student615
Fri, 20 Jun 2008 01:02:57 +0000

“Each Claremont College puts emphasis on the fact that although students can take classes within the Claremont Colleges”

Yet the emphasis is insidiously deceiving because there are not as much interaction among these schools’ student bodies than these schools say.



IPBear, are you a student, or was your experience limited to one visit? In four years, I experienced far more cross-campus interaction than is generally advertised, and my time in Claremont was all the better for it. Except for those who choose to limit their use of the consortium (and some do), I’m hard-pressed to think of anyone who would agree that the schools are “insidiously deceiving” when it comes to this issue (on the contrary, I generally think the consortium should be better explained and utilized in prospective student literature).

One thing I always ended up explaining to prospective students was that it’s all but impossible to really understand the extent of cross-campus interaction until one becomes a Claremont student. Just my experience, but you might want to do some more asking around.





The 5C colleges all present different attributes. While the students are not exactly interchangeable, it would be a mistake to believe that the differences in the “selectivity” [of the] student bodies are extremely noticeable; students are different and have different … academic qualities.



Well said.