<p>The town of Claremont is charming but it is incredibly small. So is pamona. Even with the extended Claremont campuses, there is not much to do. cmc is full of young republicans studying accounting and econ and the principal entertainment is drinking. Mudd is science and engineering so I doubt you would have much interaction and it’s somewhat isolated. Scripps is all girls and sort of junior league meets 1970’s feminist. Pitzer are a bunch of freaks., always disrupting the other campus’ events. Going to and particularly getting back from West hollywood , Westwood etc is difficult. Nu is much more cosmopolitan on campus and off. Evanston> Claremont and Chicago > LA. Also there is much more to do on campus at NU. Pamona is a top lac, but NU is at least a top 15 “university”. There is a big difference. Just walk the two campuses and get a feel for them. Then decide. Academics are a push.</p>