Pomona v Occidental

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Pomona is much harder to get into and has a much better reputation.

[Anonymous]

Oxy is closer to LA and more chill. Better for media, arts, and industry connections to entertainment (like music). 20 mins from DTLA. Has a hippie/boho feel.

Pomona is more academic and driven. They have the consortium as their bubble where most of social life occurs. They are in the inland empire about 60-ish minutes from DTLA. But they are closer to Orange County (45 mins) and have a suburban/corporate feel.

Both are quite leftist.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Oxy is closer to LA and more chill. Better for media, arts, and industry connections to entertainment (like music). 20 mins from DTLA. Has a hippie/boho feel.

Pomona is more academic and driven. They have the consortium as their bubble where most of social life occurs. They are in the inland empire about 60-ish minutes from DTLA. But they are closer to Orange County (45 mins) and have a suburban/corporate feel.

Both are quite leftist.

Can you speak towards the industry connections

[Anonymous]

why anyone would voluntarily live in the inland empire is beyond me.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:why anyone would voluntarily live in the inland empire is beyond me.

Yes because eagle rock is just amazing

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:why anyone would voluntarily live in the inland empire is beyond me.

Claremont is a nice and Pomona campus is great. (Oxy campus also great, of course.)

[Anonymous]

Not too many students score high on the SAT at Pomona. Fewer than 30 or so freshman out of the entire freshman class scored above 1560, so I'd say Pomona and Occidental attract equally academically strong students.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Oxy is closer to LA and more chill. Better for media, arts, and industry connections to entertainment (like music). 20 mins from DTLA. Has a hippie/boho feel.

Pomona is more academic and driven. They have the consortium as their bubble where most of social life occurs. They are in the inland empire about 60-ish minutes from DTLA. But they are closer to Orange County (45 mins) and have a suburban/corporate feel.

Both are quite leftist.

Much more academic and driven. It’s not close. There’s no reason to pick Occidental if they’re a similar cost and you’re a serious academic student. Most LAC students are not interested in entertainment and the film industry- schools like USC and Chapman do a much better job.

Occidental is not even necessarily better than Pitzer which is regarded as the worst of the 5Cs.

It’s like the difference between Yale and Wake Forest. Both good schools, but one is in a whole different league.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Not too many students score high on the SAT at Pomona. Fewer than 30 or so freshman out of the entire freshman class scored above 1560, so I'd say Pomona and Occidental attract equally academically strong students.

Is this a joke?

Pomona- 1490 to 1560 with 37% submitting, class rank not reported this year but consistently 88% or higher in the top 10% of their high school class according to previous CDS’s

Occidental- 1400 to 1510 with 25% submitting, 16% ranked in the top 10% of their high school class

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Not too many students score high on the SAT at Pomona. Fewer than 30 or so freshman out of the entire freshman class scored above 1560, so I'd say Pomona and Occidental attract equally academically strong students.

Is this a joke?

Pomona- 1490 to 1560 with 37% submitting, class rank not reported this year but consistently 88% or higher in the top 10% of their high school class according to previous CDS’s

Occidental- 1400 to 1510 with 25% submitting, 16% ranked in the top 10% of their high school class

I also don’t get the obsession with test scores. Back then, we would just grind out tests till we got the score the college we wanted to go to liked- it didn’t mean anything of importance.

[Anonymous]

Oxy has a registration exchange and a 3/2 AB/BS Engineering program with Caltech

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Anonymous wrote:Oxy has a registration exchange and a 3/2 AB/BS Engineering program with Caltech

Pomona shares the 3/2 program as do about a dozen other schools.

If you want a cross registration system, go to the best consortium in the US, rather than two campuses that are an hour bus/train ride apart and only let yoy cross register for specialized courses

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Oxy has a registration exchange and a 3/2 AB/BS Engineering program with Caltech

If you want engineering, go to a school that has engineering. Paying an extra year, and taking the risk that you won't make the qualifications to transfer, makes no sense.

[Anonymous]

Not remotely comparable. Pomona is the better school.