Anyone have insight on Pomona for “high” finance?

[Anonymous]

CMC is generally the one recommended but wondering if Pomona does well recruiting for something like IB

[Anonymous]

DC attends, and I'm an alum. CMC is the better choice. Pomona students are not really the crowd that are interested in IB. There's many students who go into consulting, but few are interested in doing finance long term. CMC has all the resources for getting into IB and offers more funding to their students than Pomona. Pomona is the type of place for an Econ student who wants to go to graduate school or someone fine with using consulting as a buffer to get into the career they actually want. Few interest in IB, so it would be better to take up the opportunities and clubs at CMC.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:DC attends, and I'm an alum. CMC is the better choice. Pomona students are not really the crowd that are interested in IB. There's many students who go into consulting, but few are interested in doing finance long term. CMC has all the resources for getting into IB and offers more funding to their students than Pomona. Pomona is the type of place for an Econ student who wants to go to graduate school or someone fine with using consulting as a buffer to get into the career they actually want. Few interest in IB, so it would be better to take up the opportunities and clubs at CMC.

Agree. I’d call CMC the Bucknell of the West, while Pomona is more like Swarthmore. Both are incredible schools, but their strengths are in very different areas. Is your kid more interested in being immersed in intellectualism or getting on the fast track to The Street?

[Anonymous]

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Agree. I’d call CMC the Bucknell of the West, while Pomona is more like Swarthmore. Both are incredible schools, but their strengths are in very different areas. Is your kid more interested in being immersed in intellectualism or getting on the fast track to The Street?

Their personality definitely lean more towards "intellectual" and will probably do better socially in that crowd as well. They have some interest in pursuing a future career in finance in areas like hedge funds but I wouldn't say he's committed to it. Will probably major in something like economics or philosophy

[Anonymous]

I’m more of a low finance guy myself.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:
Agree. I’d call CMC the Bucknell of the West, while Pomona is more like Swarthmore. Both are incredible schools, but their strengths are in very different areas. Is your kid more interested in being immersed in intellectualism or getting on the fast track to The Street?

Their personality definitely lean more towards "intellectual" and will probably do better socially in that crowd as well. They have some interest in pursuing a future career in finance in areas like hedge funds but I wouldn't say he's committed to it. Will probably major in something like economics or philosophy

Both of those are better at CMC. CMC's philosophy department is incredibly well built out, while Pomona is admittedly struggling a bit. I'd say CMC is over a better academic decision. They can hang out with Pomona kids for social circle.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:
Agree. I’d call CMC the Bucknell of the West, while Pomona is more like Swarthmore. Both are incredible schools, but their strengths are in very different areas. Is your kid more interested in being immersed in intellectualism or getting on the fast track to The Street?

Their personality definitely lean more towards "intellectual" and will probably do better socially in that crowd as well. They have some interest in pursuing a future career in finance in areas like hedge funds but I wouldn't say he's committed to it. Will probably major in something like economics or philosophy

Pomona might be a better fit for him, and since the two schools are part of the same consortium, he can still plug into the CMC Wall Street pipeline if that's his career goal. He can even take classes there and start networking with the finance gods over there, many of whom will be very well connected.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:DC attends, and I'm an alum. CMC is the better choice. Pomona students are not really the crowd that are interested in IB. There's many students who go into consulting, but few are interested in doing finance long term. CMC has all the resources for getting into IB and offers more funding to their students than Pomona. Pomona is the type of place for an Econ student who wants to go to graduate school or someone fine with using consulting as a buffer to get into the career they actually want. Few interest in IB, so it would be better to take up the opportunities and clubs at CMC.

Agree. I’d call CMC the Bucknell of the West, while Pomona is more like Swarthmore. Both are incredible schools, but their strengths are in very different areas. Is your kid more interested in being immersed in intellectualism or getting on the fast track to The Street?

There we go! What's your opinion on frats, by the way?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DC attends, and I'm an alum. CMC is the better choice. Pomona students are not really the crowd that are interested in IB. There's many students who go into consulting, but few are interested in doing finance long term. CMC has all the resources for getting into IB and offers more funding to their students than Pomona. Pomona is the type of place for an Econ student who wants to go to graduate school or someone fine with using consulting as a buffer to get into the career they actually want. Few interest in IB, so it would be better to take up the opportunities and clubs at CMC.

Agree. I’d call CMC the Bucknell of the West, while Pomona is more like Swarthmore. Both are incredible schools, but their strengths are in very different areas. Is your kid more interested in being immersed in intellectualism or getting on the fast track to The Street?

CMC is substantially better at finance placement than Bucknell, though.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DC attends, and I'm an alum. CMC is the better choice. Pomona students are not really the crowd that are interested in IB. There's many students who go into consulting, but few are interested in doing finance long term. CMC has all the resources for getting into IB and offers more funding to their students than Pomona. Pomona is the type of place for an Econ student who wants to go to graduate school or someone fine with using consulting as a buffer to get into the career they actually want. Few interest in IB, so it would be better to take up the opportunities and clubs at CMC.

Agree. I’d call CMC the Bucknell of the West, while Pomona is more like Swarthmore. Both are incredible schools, but their strengths are in very different areas. Is your kid more interested in being immersed in intellectualism or getting on the fast track to The Street?

CMC is substantially better at finance placement than Bucknell, though.

+1 I’d call Bucknell the DeVry of the East.

[Anonymous]

That’s a joke right? CMC is heads and shoulders way above Bucknell. They are planning to expand the campus and are opening a really cool Integrated Science center. Expect them and the 5C’s to explode in popularity going forward.

https://www.cmc.edu/newsfeed/cmc-announces-roberts-campus

[Anonymous]

Pomona is not a target, it's a grad school feeder school.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:
Agree. I’d call CMC the Bucknell of the West, while Pomona is more like Swarthmore. Both are incredible schools, but their strengths are in very different areas. Is your kid more interested in being immersed in intellectualism or getting on the fast track to The Street?

Their personality definitely lean more towards "intellectual" and will probably do better socially in that crowd as well. They have some interest in pursuing a future career in finance in areas like hedge funds but I wouldn't say he's committed to it. Will probably major in something like economics or philosophy

“some interest in pursuing a career in hedge funds” 🙄

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DC attends, and I'm an alum. CMC is the better choice. Pomona students are not really the crowd that are interested in IB. There's many students who go into consulting, but few are interested in doing finance long term. CMC has all the resources for getting into IB and offers more funding to their students than Pomona. Pomona is the type of place for an Econ student who wants to go to graduate school or someone fine with using consulting as a buffer to get into the career they actually want. Few interest in IB, so it would be better to take up the opportunities and clubs at CMC.

Agree. I’d call CMC the Bucknell of the West, while Pomona is more like Swarthmore. Both are incredible schools, but their strengths are in very different areas. Is your kid more interested in being immersed in intellectualism or getting on the fast track to The Street?

CMC is substantially better at finance placement than Bucknell, though.

+1 I’d call Bucknell the DeVry of the East.

+20000000000000000

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
Agree. I’d call CMC the Bucknell of the West, while Pomona is more like Swarthmore. Both are incredible schools, but their strengths are in very different areas. Is your kid more interested in being immersed in intellectualism or getting on the fast track to The Street?

Their personality definitely lean more towards "intellectual" and will probably do better socially in that crowd as well. They have some interest in pursuing a future career in finance in areas like hedge funds but I wouldn't say he's committed to it. Will probably major in something like economics or philosophy

Pomona might be a better fit for him, and since the two schools are part of the same consortium, he can still plug into the CMC Wall Street pipeline if that's his career goal. He can even take classes there and start networking with the finance gods over there, many of whom will be very well connected.

This is overstating the relationship of the consortium a bit-if interest is finance, best to be enrolled at CMC to take advantage of clubs which operate at a very high level and are very competitive to get in and not open to Pomona students.

Philosophy department is fantastic-child just finished first class and was truly inspired.