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The fall 2020 acceptance rate for Pomona College is 9%. That means, out of _____ applications received in 2020 , _____ students were offered admission. The number of males who applied was _____ vs the number of females which was _____.
What is the stereotype of students at your school?
Some stereotypes are that we are conceded about our intelligence. Another is the overly liberal standpoint of the student body and the school as a whole.
Read all 88 answers Describe the students at your school.
Everybody has an amazing life story to share at Pomona. They are wildly creative individuals and ridiculously smart, and always available to lend an ear or collaborate on a research project. They are amazingly wonderful people. I've never been happier as when I'm surrounded by this group of students.
Read all 87 answers Is the stereotype of students at your school accurate?
Pomona students are definitely rich, and on the whole uncomfortably so for anyone that doesn't come from a similar background. They're also very smart and on the whole easily successful. There is very little pretentiousness, even though that seems to be the most common and popular stereotype.
Read all 86 answers What are the academics like at your school?
Professors always know your name and are available to help. They encourage you to express your opinion, but challenge you on it so that you can back it up with facts.
If you put in the time you will be rewarded in the classroom, both with respect to grades and overall knowledge.
Read all 86 answers What is your overall opinion of this school?
Good size school, the consortium makes it so that there enough people you don't feel strangled, but its small enough that everything feels familiar.
The new village expansion is really nice and makes living in Claremont less like being in a bubble.
Read all 82 answers What are the most popular student activities/groups?
Over half of the Pomona student body is into partying. You know, the drunken college kind. If that's not your thing, it's going to get annoying, but it's nowhere near as bad as other schools where the numbers are more skewed. If that is your thing, knock yourself out, and enjoy the fact that everyone's "student fees" go towards buying you alcohol.
Read all 80 answers What should every freshman at your school know before they start?
Trust your instincts, go with what you really want and not what you think that your family wants or that your teachers expect of you. Your inner drive is so strong, it will take you on incredible adventures and you will grow into a generous, successful, kind, and very valuable woman. Do not question yourself. Do not look at what others are doing. And do not waste time trying to fill 200 words to appear intelligent or empassioned when you have nothing left to say.
Read all 38 answers Here's your chance: Say anything about your college!
I don't think there's any other school in the country that has such a universally friendly student body. It's actually so friendly, sometimes it feels weird because I don't think that culture of just being kind exists anywhere else.
Read all 37 answers Tell us about the sports scene on campus.
We are by no means the best around, but a lot of students are involved in sports to some degree.
Read all 23 answers What's unique about your campus?
5 College consortium, very intelligent and inquisitive students, small classes.
Read all 12 answers What kind of person should not attend this school?
A person who does not like to be challanged or settles for average should not attend Pomona College.
Read all 9 answers Describe your favorite campus traditions.
Being laid back. Though I am not one of those people, the whole campus is just relaxed.
Read all 8 answers What do you consider the worst thing about your school? Why?
The administration tries to control partying and drug/alcohol use too much through fines, to the extent that people end up just taking shots in their rooms because much else will get the RA's attention. A lot of people choose to party at CMC instead too.
Read all 7 answers What's the one thing you wish someone had told you about freshman year?
I wish I had known that most of the students are kind of boring and the immediate surrounding area isn't that exciting, but the larger surrounding area has lots of offer and Pomona has a great outdoors program.
Read all 6 answers What is the stereotype of students at your school? Is this stereotype accurate?
The two main stereotypes about Pomona students are that they are elitist and happy. I honestly don't really know where the elitism thing comes from--I think a lot of small, private colleges suffer from that misconception--but the happiness thing is definitely pretty true. I can't think of another place where I've been surrounded by so many happy been, or have been so happy myself.
Read all 6 answers Describe how your school looks to someone who's never seen it.
Pomona College is the type of school where one is able to find themselves and not be judged because of it.
Read all 6 answers What are your classes like?
A look at a beginning ball room dance class taught by the head of the Claremont Colleges Ballroom Dance Club teacher.
Read all 4 answers What kind of person should attend this school?
Motivated free thinkers should look at this school. Analyze everything, take nothing for granted. Care about education and care about understanding the universe on a deeper level without being lost in the impracticality of philosophy.
Read all 4 answers What do you brag about most when you tell your friends about your school?
The weather, the small class sizes, the econ and math departments' closeness to their students, Martha Andresen, being able to take any class I wanted, my friends, my dorms, my life.
Read all 4 answers What's the most frustrating thing about your school?
To be fair, probably also the friendliness - it's great for the most part, but some people do it superficially, and for those people, the friendliness comes at the expense of honesty. I'd rather have people be superficially nice than genuinely mean, but I'd rather have people be genuinely apathetic than superficially nice, so it's a tradeoff.
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