Amherst v Pomona
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Anonymous
You cannot answer questions and have continued using extremist rhetoric instead of just being honest that you don’t know what you’re talking about or pretending that you can’t answer. I have asked basic questions, and you’ve continued acting out. I dont wanna hear about “ax to grind” when you ran through assumptions in order to avoid discussing. Thank you. Reported. |
Anonymous
If they’re so irrational, just stop talking. |
Anonymous
You first |
Anonymous
Huh? I’m just giving advice. You seemed upset, and they’re irrational. DCUM has whackos. |
Anonymous
Don’t know what you asked. There are so many crazies on here it’s hard to keep track |
Anonymous
| Location really is the biggest difference. Otherwise they’re very similar. |
Anonymous
+1000 |
Anonymous
Educate yourself just a bit. With the exception of Pomona and Scripps the C5 were founded after WWII. Pitzer didn't even exist when this article was written. |
Anonymous
The stupid runs strong in this one. |
Anonymous
Not really when you consider that Amherst is 300 years older than Pomona. Might want to normalize to the last 100 years and see what things look like. |
Anonymous
Says far more about your DH than it does about Pomona. And not in a good way. |
Anonymous
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Neither school would be a good fit for my kids, so have no particular feelings about either. But it seems to me a lot of people are stuck in the world from 30/40 years ago. Generally, people seem to be really underestimating how much the world has moved on from old New England. The West Coast, the South, and even the Midwest have much more going on than New England. Amherst seems really ossified to me. And their attempts to modernize and diversify haven't really succeeded. From what I've read, Amherst's attempts have led to more silos - there are the athletes, their are the black kids, there are the first generation kids, there are the residual WASPs, and they don't interact at all. It's like a bad high school. The New Yorker had a good article about Amherst as a community a few years ago. It seems like an exhausting place to be.
But Pomona seems kind of tiresome too in a West Coast way. It's very unlikely a white or asian unhooked UMC kid from the burbs of DC or NY or Chicago would ever be admitted to begin with. Pomona is all in with their view of "diversity." The upside to Pomona is the consortium. I always envisioned it as five schools on a cul de sac. The Pomona student can take classes at Harvey Mudd or CMC, and I think that's really cool. If the only choices in the world were Pomona and Amherst, I would totally choose Pomona - because there are outlets to go elsewhere and enlarge your community and experiences. I'm not anti-SLAC at all, but these are such tiny communities that I think going to either Amherst or Pomona is so risky for 18 year olds. But the Pomona consortium is better than the Amherst consortium. Plus, weather, which is no small thing from October to March. |
Anonymous
Quite a bit of that is true but it also goes in the opposite direction. People on the West Coast, particularly in the Bay area are ignorant regarding SLACs and obsessed with CS. But as is often said IYKYK and there is no lack of SLAC representation on Sand Hill Rd, in SF Finance, or in the top ranks of FAANG management outside of engineering. |
Anonymous
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Both are great schools and peers. In terms of selectivity, student body, faculty, and endowment, they are nearly identical. Both also feed as well into grad school as your average Ivy. David Foster Wallace attended Amherst but taught at Pomona.
Amherst is quintessential New England, feeds well into Wall Street, and feels smaller and more isolated than Pomona. The Five College Consortium is cool, but few Amherst students regularly take classes at the other schools and, when they do, it's usually at UMass. Like Williams, Amherst's vibe is a little more preprofessional and mainstream (a decade ago we would have said preppy). Pomona is just outside LA, feeds well into FAANG, and the 5C is extremely integrated physically, academically, and socially. Like Swarthmore, Pomona's vibe is a little more academic and quirky. The Venn diagram circles of people who have heard of Amherst and people of have heard of Pomona likely form a near perfect circle of overlap. If you attend one because that "it's better known than the other," you're probably at a cousin's graduation ceremony because nobody smart enough to get into either LAC would likely make that decision on such a dumb basis. |
Anonymous
Along that vein, the Ivie plus would also be “ossified.” Nothing my wrong with newish. Some prefer tradition mixed with change and adaptation. |