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Pitzer was founded in 1963 as a women's college by Russell K. Pitzer (1878–1978), a California citrus magnate, philanthropist, and Pomona College alumnus. In April 1963, John W. Atherton, the dean of faculty and a professor of English at Claremont Men's College (now Claremont McKenna College) was hired as Pitzer's first president, and over the next seventeen months he recruited students ...
The Claremont Colleges (known colloquially as the 7Cs) are a consortium of seven private institutions of higher education located in Claremont, California, United States.They comprise five undergraduate colleges (the 5Cs)—Pomona College, Scripps College, Claremont McKenna College (CMC), Harvey Mudd College, and Pitzer College—and two graduate schools—Claremont Graduate University (CGU ...
Ivy-Plus admissions rates vary with the income of the students' parents, with the acceptance rate of the top 0.1% income percentile being almost twice as much as other students. [234] While many "elite" colleges intend to improve socioeconomic diversity by admitting poorer students, they may have economic incentives not to do so.
Transfer applicants are more often evaluated by college grades, with standardized test results being less important. The statistical chance of being accepted into a college by a transfer arrangement was 64%, a figure slightly lower than the acceptance rate for first-year college students of 69%. [6]
Pomona has the lowest acceptance rate of any national liberal arts college in the U.S. as of 2021. [296] The college admitted 7.1% of applicants for the 2024 entering class, [297] 50.2% of whom chose to enroll. [297] The number of transfer applicants admitted has varied by year; in 2024, Pomona admitted 44 of 509 applicants (8.6%). [224]
Occidental College: Los Angeles: 1887 Nonsectarian [d] 1,839 Tigers: 1915–16 to present No Pomona-Pitzer —Pomona College —Pitzer College: Claremont: 1887 1963 Nonsectarian: 1,732 [4] 950 Sagehens: 1971–72 to present 1915–16 to 1933–34; 1938–39 to present 1971–72 to present Yes University of Redlands: Redlands: 1907 Nonsectarian ...
The College of Engineering at Cal Poly Pomona is among the most selective engineering colleges in the nation. For fall 2018, the college admitted 45.3 percent of its total freshmen applicants who held an average unweighted GPA of 3.74 (out of 4.00) and SATs of 1249 (out of 1600). [16]
Pitzer College — a private residential liberal arts college and member of the Claremont Colleges, located in Claremont, Los Angeles County, Southern California. Subcategories This category has the following 4 subcategories, out of 4 total.