Amherst v Pomona
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Anonymous
| They seem nearly identical on paper, what sets them apart? |
Anonymous
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Location.
Where do you live. How convenient is each location. Both are excellent schools obvi, so it will just come down to location and fit. Fwiw, Pomona prefers public to private school and FGLI. |
Anonymous
| I don’t see what at all is similar between the two |
Anonymous
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besides obvious weather/location:
amherst has an open curriculum, pomona has curricular requirements amherst's majors have less requirements, so double majoring is far more common at amherst vs. at pomona amherst is more athletics focused and the athletic divide is more prominent, pomona has a competitive program but the athletes are more integrated overall amherst is more of a stand alone LAC while Pomona feels socially larger with the adjacent claremont colleges amherst attracts more preprofessional students especially in law and finance and leans more towards humanities/social sciences, pomona attracts more students interested in academia and STEM amherst has a strong alumni network and an overall stronger reputation than pomona which is more of an up and coming school especially on the east coast pomona has much better maintained facilities in my experience while parts of the amherst campus feel a bit dingy |
Anonymous
| Pomona is in the same league academically with Williams and Amherst except to the East coast snobs who want to say otherwise because nothing coming out of CA can be seen as a good thing to them. Fortunately, plenty of Ivy League grad schools think otherwise and are awash with Pomona grads. |
Anonymous
| Isn’t it Amerst now? |
Anonymous
Nevermind - this popped up on my LinkedIn well after 4/1 and I didn’t know it was a joke until I just googled it. I thought changing the name was a bad idea. Clearly I wasn’t smart enough to attend this school. |
Anonymous
| Big reputation gap- Amherst name opens doors, Pomona is not well known |
Anonymous
| ^^Again-East coast bias at work! |
Anonymous
| pomona was our favorite tour and Amherst our least. out of three kids and maybe 40 tours. |
Anonymous
| Pomona stands alone and is somewhat unique; it does not need to care about the half dozen or so top northeast SLACs, which are engaging in their own internecine struggles. |
Anonymous
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I dont think any of the top half dozen slacs are struggling.
slacs a full rung down (ranked 15+) - yes, agree. |
Anonymous
Top SLACs are doing great, to be sure, but they have still declined in relative prestige vis a vis top national universities over the last generation, in case you are unaware of that trend. Pomona is more insulated from this. |
Anonymous
was the complete reverse for my kiddo! Hubby and I also lived Amherst - Pomona was so bleh and uninspiring, with a weird unfriendly vibe from the kids on campus - hard pass |
Anonymous
Completely false. |