Five of the most distinctive colleges in the country share one campus, one library, one social ecosystem, and one extraordinary cross-registration network. Most California families have never understood what that actually means. This changes that.
Students take courses across all five campuses. Pitzer students take 30% of courses elsewhere by design. A Harvey Mudd student can take CMC government seminars and Pomona philosophy simultaneously.
The Claremont Colleges Library serves all five undergraduate colleges and two graduate institutions. Combined research resources rival much larger universities.
Five-college parties, joint dining, cross-campus clubs, and shared traditions create the intimacy of a small college with the energy of a much larger one.
CMS (Claremont-Mudd-Scripps) competes against Pomona-Pitzer. Division III. National championships across tennis, water polo, swimming, cross-country, and more.
Undergraduates can take courses at Claremont Graduate University and Keck Graduate Institute, accessing graduate seminars unavailable at standalone colleges.
You apply to one specific college, not the consortium. The cross-registration benefit arrives after admission. Generic applications that focus on consortium benefits fail at all five schools simultaneously.
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Select a college to see what its admissions committee actually evaluates.
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The matching framework, the essay strategy, the financial aid comparison, and the cross-registration argument all need to be in place before November 1. PCG specializes in exactly this for California families.
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