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Admissions Survey Excerpts
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Alumni
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Claremont Mckenna College looks for leadership qualities more than
anything else. That means emphasize sports activities, leadership
positions. I ... READ MORE
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Current Student
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Interviews for prospective students are all conducted by current CMC
students, which might help take the pressure off of students who are
intimida... READ MORE
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Current Student
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CMC is becoming more and more selective each year. In addition to
great test scores, CMC emphasizes leadership roles in extracurricular
activit... READ MORE
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Current Student
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CMC is a highly selective school (20%) that values a well-rounded
application. They look not only for good grade but to see that
applicants took ... READ MORE
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Academics Survey Excerpts
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Alumni
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Sad to say Academics here is good--but could definitely be improved. The
school believes in giving students enough time to socialize--which is
als... READ MORE
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Current Student
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The academics at CMC are solid and the workload is challenging. What
makes it tolerable is the close connection with professors (you'll
almost nev... READ MORE
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Current Student
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CMC can be extremely rigorous academically. The strongest departments
include Economics, Government, and, oddly, History. The reading load
for m... READ MORE
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Current Student
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CMC offers very small classes (max 25) that are normally quite easy to
enroll in. The small class sizes offer student great access to
professors.... READ MORE
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Employment Prospect Survey Excerpts
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Alumni
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This is the best part about Claremont Mckenna. More than any of the claremont colleges. Most recruiters go straight here to recruit foregoing the high... READ MORE
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Current Student
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The Career Services Center has a great campus recruiting program in terms of investment banking, management consulting and other corporate finance pro... READ MORE
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Current Student
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CMC definitely focuses much of their career services to careers as opposed to professional or graduate school. That being said, many CMCers get into ... READ MORE
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Current Student
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CMC provides graduates with a great advantage in the job market. Employers seek out or students, especially those who major in CMC's most popular maj... READ MORE
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Quality of Life Survey Excerpts
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Alumni
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Its like living in a small mansion. Your classes are two minutes away,
almost everyone knows each other. READ MORE
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Current Student
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Visitors to CMC frequently complain that we don't go to a college, but
rather a country club. That's a pretty accurate description of CMC-the
faci... READ MORE
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Current Student
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The housing here is quite nice, with most of it having been newly
renovated. The campus is tropical, with flowers in all seasons, fruit
and palm ... READ MORE
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Current Student
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CMC students are spoiled. First their is the weather, it doesn't get
better then sunny Southern California. No heavy coats needed here.
Next the... READ MORE
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Social Life Survey Excerpts
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Alumni
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Lots of great parties--school pay for alcohol. No clubs outside though.
check out www.cmcstudents.com READ MORE
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Current Student
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As residential campus, most social activities are focused around
campus. There is no Greek system at CMC (or on any of the five campuses)
but soc... READ MORE
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Current Student
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Claremont is a small town, filled with old people. Therefore, a
thriving social life has developed on campus. While we do not have
Greek life at... READ MORE
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Current Student
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CMC has a relatively small enrollment (1000), but the presence of four
other Claremont colleges all on basically the same campus makes the
social ... READ MORE
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