Intellectual yet Laid-Back

D.T
Sun, 08 Jul 2007 05:08:16 +0000

I’d suggest looking at Pomona College since you’ve taken a look at Stanford. Should fit the “intellectual yet laid back” phrase.

The compulsory “Gen Ed” curriculum is very flexible, one course each in 5 areas: : Creative Expression; Social Institutions and Human Behavior; History, Values, Ethics and Cultural Studies; Physical and Biological Sciences; and Mathematical Reasoning.

And as always, the cross registering between CMC, Harvey Mudd, Pitzer, Scripps is always a plus.

It’s in Claremont, not exactly a vibrant town but not that rural either. LA is about 1 - 2 hours drive away, and there’s a train to LA as well.

So, sounds about right for you. I’m attending there this fall and so far these are the relevant stuff that I can provide. As for profs and classes and students and overall feel, you’d do better to ask students who are already attending. But I’ve heard almost nothing but good things about the professors. Students are friendly and not competitive too from what I can gather thus far.

A helpful starting point - check out the “Top 10 reasons to attend Pomona” thread inside the Pomona forum here: http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=175120

Good luck! =)