Pomona vs Wesleyan?

interesteddad
Fri, 17 Feb 2006 16:06:53 +0000

I’m a little lost here. Pomona has its own science departments – quite good ones actually. There would be no need for a Physics major at Pomona to take courses at Harvey Mudd, although the option would be there if something struck his fancy. Not all of the Claremont Colleges have their own science departments – Pitzer, Claremont-McKenna, and Scripps shares something called a Joint Sciences Department, which is a department with rudimentary bio, physics, and chem offerings sufficient for three schools with few students interested in sciences. Harvey Mudd is specialized in the other direction – a pure science, math, and engineering tech school with only rudimentary offerings in a “Humanities” department. Pomona is the full-service tratidional liberal arts college of the five – and has an endowment that dwarfs the others.

The studio art courses at Scripps are probably a more realistic consideration. Given the choice, I’d rather be a Pomona student and register for those at Scripps as desired. All of the buildings of the two schools are closer together than the buildings of any one LAC “back east”. The combined five campuses of the Claremont Consortium occupy less real estate than, for example, Swarthmore or Williams.