Pomona v Yale v Brown in a STEM field

Corinthian
Mon, 02 Apr 2018 01:55:21 +0000

There is specific information on the HMC website about how non-HMC students are treated for purposes of CS classes. https://www.cs.hmc.edu/off-campus-students. As with most colleges, there is a huge demand for CS classes. Two things to note. First, HMC and Pomona both give priority to those who have declared a CS major over non-majors. Second, HMC treats CS majors from CMC, Pitzer and Scripps as “identical” to HMC CS majors in terms of course registration and advising services, but this is NOT true of Pomona CS majors taking courses at HMC. Basically this is because Pomona CS majors are considered to already have comparable resources at Pomona’s CS department.

As a general rule, cross-registration at the 5C’s really is easy and seamless. There are exceptions here and there. Pomona for example does not permit any “off-campus” majors. As a Pomona student it’s generally easy to take electives off-campus but you may also find that your major department imposes restrictions. My D is an Economics major at Pomona and the Econ department requires that you take your 6 core Econ courses at Pomona. So for example you can’t substitute the CMC intro microeconomics class for the Pomona intro microeconomics class.

Also @Publisher my reason for pointing out the Pomona/Swarthmore domestic exchange in this instance was to address the “problem” of Pomona being too close to home. The exchange would give the student an option to spend time away from the probably too familiar Claremont home environment. If he chooses Amherst then he’s across the country and there’s no need to do a domestic exchange to gain temporary distance from home.