Claremont is a residential town in California’s Los Angeles County. It is a relatively small city with approximately 35,000 residents. The Village is Claremont’s commercial center, conveniently located adjacent to the Claremont schools and containing a number of small stores, galleries, and restaurants. The city’s concentration of foliage and medical professionals has earned it the nickname “the City of Trees and PhDs.” Fittingly, Claremont has been awarded the National Arbor Day Association’s Tree City USA designation for 23 consecutive years.

CMC is located adjacent to the other 5C schools (Pitzer, Harvey Mudd, Pomona, and Scripps). The 50-acre campus sit near the foot of the scenic San Gabriel Mountains. Ninety-five percent of students live on campus, with the North Quad serving as the center of student social life. The CMC campus’ premier building is the Marian Miner Cook Athenaeum, commonly known at the Ath, which hosts more than 100 dinner and lecture events every year for students and faculty, as well as a daily tea.

CMC’s dorms are divided into three regions: North Quad, Mid Quad, and South Quad. Seniors also have the option of living on the eastern edge of campus. Dorm rooms are cleaned by the housekeeping staff every other week. North Quad: Each of these dorms open to the outdoors rather than opening into an interior hallway. -Appleby -Boswell -Green -Wohlford Mid Quad: These dorms contain double and single rooms and long interior hallways. -Beckett -Benson -Berger -Marks -Phillips South Quad: The dorms here are known as “the Towers” and are the tallest on CMC’s campus. -Auen -Fawcett -Stark The senior apartments are divided into four buildings numbered 651, 661, 671, and 681.

CMC-ers share sports teams with students from Harvey Mudd College and Scripps College. The men’s teams are known as the Stags, and the women’s teams are the Athenas. The CMS Athletics programs compete in NCAA Division III and in the Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference. The CMS teams’ main rivals are the cross-campus PP (Pomona-Pitzer) teams.