<p>I’ve been to visit the Claremonts twice, once during a Sat and once during a Mon. On the first time (Sat) it was extreamly quiet and I just thought it was because it was a weekend. The second time I was there was the Mon and I was there for a few hours in the morning until about noon, and it was also eerily wuiet. Is it always this quiet or did I just go when everyone was sleeping in?</p>
<p>Thanks.</p>
<p>I would be interested to see what some current students say.
I know that even big UC campuses are dead, dead, dead on Saturday.</p>
<p>My family was at Scripps on Preview Day last fall and that was a Friday.
Besides the visitors, there seemed to be a lot going on around the Commons and the Coffee Shop with current students. Then there was a 5C (all Claremonts invited) informal soccer game on the Scripps lawn that looked like fun.</p>
<p>lintu - Maybe it was a Monday morning thing. I know at some college students try to schedule their classes for Tues-Thur to have longer weekends.</p>
<p>Do any current students have any insight that could solve this grand mystery?</p>
<p>Everybody’s kind of right :-)</p>
<p>Claremont is quiet. The five schools together make up a campus that could easily hold 20,000, and yet it only holds 5,000. There are a lot of places to hide a very small number of students, and that’s one simple factor.</p>
<p>The campuses can also appear pretty quiet to visitors who aren’t sure where to go to catch the action. When I give tours, people often remark on the quiet, and then we get into Seal Court and walk through the Motley, at which point everyone realizes “OH. So THIS is where everyone was hiding!” There are definite hot spots. The pools, anywhere that serves food, any (and every) grassy spot on nice days…all of these are bound to be pretty busy. It also helps to know stuff like when classes meet, so the sudden and short-lived hordes make more sense. </p>
<p>In general, the Claremont schools are pretty quiet, but they are by NO means “dead.” Some schools that I visited as a high schooler gave off the impression of “nothing happens here,” and even though Claremont can be pretty calm, it never actually gave me that feeling. There’s more going on–always–than anyone knows what to do with (it’s not just a tagline…it really has been the case, at least in my experience).</p>
<p>Just bear in mind the fact that there could be three different major events going on at any given time, none of them occurring on a particular campus. Scripps might look shut-down because everyone is at the concert over on Pomona, or vice versa :-)</p>
<p>Also, atmosphere varies campus to campus and even building to building. There are quiet areas, party areas, a lap pool, a recreational pool, dorms known for video game playing, and dorms with outdoor speakers and movie screens. It all depends on where and when.</p>
<p>So yes…Claremont is quiet, but no, it’s definitely not because nothing’s happening on campus. It’s not the place for someone who needs action everywhere all the time, but the super-quiet appearances are also slightly deceiving.</p>
<p>Thank you, Student615! :)</p>