What's the difference between Amherst and Pomona?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote: I really preferred Pomona to Amherst when I toured last year and in '23 with two different kids. Amherst does indeed look ... if not dumpy, not investing in their campus.

Pomona is the king of dumpy. Many buildings are 100+ years old and look it. There’s no up-to-date buildings on campus, and some classes even happen outside because they’re lacking space! Would not attend.

You’ve never been to Pomona lol.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: I really preferred Pomona to Amherst when I toured last year and in '23 with two different kids. Amherst does indeed look ... if not dumpy, not investing in their campus.

Pomona is the king of dumpy. Many buildings are 100+ years old and look it. There’s no up-to-date buildings on campus, and some classes even happen outside because they’re lacking space! Would not attend.

You’ve never been to Pomona lol.

Pomona looks like a Taco Bell complex with no green space. Why attend when you can go to a beautiful New England college with better name recognition

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: I really preferred Pomona to Amherst when I toured last year and in '23 with two different kids. Amherst does indeed look ... if not dumpy, not investing in their campus.

Pomona is the king of dumpy. Many buildings are 100+ years old and look it. There’s no up-to-date buildings on campus, and some classes even happen outside because they’re lacking space! Would not attend.

You’ve never been to Pomona lol.

Pomona looks like a Taco Bell complex with no green space. Why attend when you can go to a beautiful New England college with better name recognition

Because some prefer the California setting and lifestyle. I didn't love the Pomona campus either, but cold, grey New England winters are not for everyone.

[Anonymous]

Well one of them is a tiny no name school that games the rankings and pays websites to rank them and the other is Amherst freaking college!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Well one of them is a tiny no name school that games the rankings and pays websites to rank them and the other is Amherst freaking college!

This person lives in a strange universe

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don't want vague comments about prestige but actual concrete differences between the students, the culture, the academics, the campuses, etc.

The weather.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Well one of them is a tiny no name school that games the rankings and pays websites to rank them and the other is Amherst freaking college!

What are you smoking?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Yeah, there’s already a school in the consortium that outperforms both Pomona and Amherst for business and IB- CMC.

Kids interested in those field self select for CMC instead. It has nothing to do with Pomona being an inferior school, it’s just a product of the overall environment among the Claremont Colleges and the students each tends to attract.

Pomona also leads for consulting, just not IB. According to this list, Pomona and CMC are the top two liberal arts colleges feeding into consulting: https://www.collegetransitions.com/blog/from-college-to-consulting/

So, it's Law, Medical, Business school plus Wall street vs Consulting, Tech, PH.D(can't tell the quality of it), which college is better?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yeah, there’s already a school in the consortium that outperforms both Pomona and Amherst for business and IB- CMC.

Kids interested in those field self select for CMC instead. It has nothing to do with Pomona being an inferior school, it’s just a product of the overall environment among the Claremont Colleges and the students each tends to attract.

Pomona also leads for consulting, just not IB. According to this list, Pomona and CMC are the top two liberal arts colleges feeding into consulting: https://www.collegetransitions.com/blog/from-college-to-consulting/

So, it's Law, Medical, Business school plus Wall street vs Consulting, Tech, PH.D(can't tell the quality of it), which college is better?

When you sort by top ranked med schools, Pokina is a bigger feeder than Amherst. It’s the number 1 LAC, actually: https://www.collegetransitions.com/blog/from-pre-med-to-md-understanding-the-pathways-to-medical-school/

Pomona also sends significantly more than Amherst to MD PhD programs, which are extremely competitive since they pay for the medical degree.

So… what is your point?

[Anonymous]

*Pomona sorry ignore the autocorrect above

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yeah, there’s already a school in the consortium that outperforms both Pomona and Amherst for business and IB- CMC.

Kids interested in those field self select for CMC instead. It has nothing to do with Pomona being an inferior school, it’s just a product of the overall environment among the Claremont Colleges and the students each tends to attract.

Pomona also leads for consulting, just not IB. According to this list, Pomona and CMC are the top two liberal arts colleges feeding into consulting: https://www.collegetransitions.com/blog/from-college-to-consulting/

So, it's Law, Medical, Business school plus Wall street vs Consulting, Tech, PH.D(can't tell the quality of it), which college is better?

When you sort by top ranked med schools, Pokina is a bigger feeder than Amherst. It’s the number 1 LAC, actually: https://www.collegetransitions.com/blog/from-pre-med-to-md-understanding-the-pathways-to-medical-school/

Pomona also sends significantly more than Amherst to MD PhD programs, which are extremely competitive since they pay for the medical degree.

So… what is your point?

All of these are from CollegeTransition, let's compare one by one, Amherst vs Pomona ranking. People can make up their own mind.

Top business school: 12 : 29
Business school: 64 : 156
Top medical school: 11: 5
Medical school: 9 : 12
Top law school: 2 : 12
Law school: 3 : 38
Tech: n/a: 22 (only ranked top 30)
Ph.D.: 17 : 10 (program quality matters, not just count)

Consulting among LAC: 15 : 2 (From AI: granular headcount of graduates entering the "MBB" firms (McKinsey, Bain, and Boston Consulting Group) each year,
institutional career data and recruiting pipelines show that Amherst College has a distinct advantage over Pomona in top-tier
management consulting.)
Wall street: 10: n/a (only ranked top 30, also from AI: If the gap between the two schools in consulting is a visible crack, when it comes to top Wall Street
firms (Bulge Bracket investment banks like Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, and J.P. Morgan, plus elite boutique banks), the gap is a
canyon, Amherst College is decisively stronger than Pomona on Wall Street)

If you can provide MD Ph.D. number/source, that would be nice.

[Anonymous]

(They're the same picture)

[Anonymous]

Not much

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Not much

Much more similar than not, both amazing schools.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Not much

Much more similar than not, both amazing schools.

Don't tell the DCUM users that!