Pomona College shares a campus with four other colleges. Collectively, these five colleges make up the Claremont McKenna College (CMC) consortium. If you are fortunate enough to be accepted at Pomona, you will have the unique opportunity of taking classes at four other excellent colleges without ever having to leave the one-square-mile campus. Claremont McKenna, Scripps, Harvey Mudd, and Pitzer each has superb courses and performance opportunities. Collectively, the five schools have 8000 students which is advantageous socially while not diminishing the benefit you get from small classes and intimate relationships you enjoy with your professors at Pomona. Each week on campus there are dozens of events and there are more than 200 student groups and clubs. Located in Claremont, CA, Pomona is idyllic with beautiful flying buttresses, large columns, western architecture, and impeccably landscaped grounds. The dorms are very nice and the food is excellent. While Pomona is known for its rigorous academics, its campus is serene and it is common to see skateboards, frisbees, and bicycles. Sharing grounds with students from five exclusive colleges means that daily interactions are both profoundly rewarding and highly eclectic. Students pretty much stay on campus as Claremont does not offer college students very much. Of course, LA, the city of stars (when you can see them) is less than an hour’s drive on “The 10 West.”