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<p>The choice between majoring in Government at CMC or at Pomona would be like the choice between studying science at MIT or Yale.</p>
<p>With 1100 students, CMC has 400 Economics majors and probably a similar number of Government majors compared to maybe 30-50 each at Pomona. So the sizes of the departments, the diversity of academic interests in the student body, etc. are going to be very different experiences.</p>
<p>Just like there is no right answer for every student considering studying science at MIT or Yale, there is no right answer between studying Government at a specialty school like CMC or a broad-based LAC like Pomona/Swarthmore. The issue is not the academic quality (which would be excellent at all of the above), but one of scale and specialization of the school and the student body. For example, according to their Common Data Set, CMC had zero art/music/theater majors last year.</p>