Amherst and Pomona

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t see any value on the Amherst consortium as the other members aren’t equivalent schools, while the Claremont colleges are more on the same level academically and physically in the same space. Not sure why your daughter wants a consortium though, it’s a strange ask.

Amherst (#2) and Smith (#13) are much closer academically than Pomona (#7) and Pitzer (#37)

Pomona, Mudd, and CMC are much closer than Amherst and UMass tho.

UMass has a highly regarded linguistics department though.

They won’t want you around in real classes until you are a senior at minimum. For linguistics, go to Pomona, Swat, Reed, or UMass for that matter — certainly not Amherst.

[Anonymous]

What are the trico and Quaker schools?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What are the trico and Quaker schools?

Swat

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Don’t be stupid! Amherst.

[Anonymous]

DC is at Pomona and seems pretty happy. DC picked Pomona over a couple Ivies and other WASPs because of the location, consortium, and laidback vibe. The 5C consortium really expands the social and academic offerings, but no one is going to get the rah-rah big school feel at the 5C consortium. Pomona is very social, but it is not a party school at all. CMC and, oddly, Mudd seem to offer the most parties. The general vibe at Pomona is intellectual, nerdy, laidback, and social. Students seems to study very hard, but I haven't gotten the sense that there is a real stress culture. Grading seems mildly inflated, which I'm sure helps. Like other LACs I'm sure, the profs seem to go out of their way to help students academically and professionally with things like internships. The location is great IMO. The fire and heat last year sucked for a couple weeks though. During DC's first year, DC went to LA 1-2 times a month via train or in a friend's car. DC also made trips to the beach a few times, Yosemite, Arizona, and Utah (Zion, etc.). DC now has a car, which helps a lot. As far as I can tell, DC has a rich life on the weekends, but studies pretty hard midweek and before midterms/finals. DC likes but doesn't seem to love Claremont Village. I, on the other hand, thinks it's great. I like it a lot more than the other WASP and T10 LAC towns and am looking forward to Parents Weekend in a couple days.

DC didn't apply to Amherst, but it's obviously a stellar school. So this isn't meant to be a comparison at all. In my mind, each WASP school offers something different for each student. Picking one of these schools over others based on vague notions of prestige and general quality seems ridiculous to me, but you do you and whatnot. And I'd add Bowdoin, Wellesley, Carleton, CMC, and Mudd to this general grouping as well.

[Anonymous]

Amherst is a stellar school and experience. And their brand new student center will open next Fall. Pomona is also building a brand new global center but it will start construction next Fall and it won't be built or ready for several years. It will demolish the Oldenberg center for language so if that was of interest in Pomona, expect a lot of construction/demolition for the next few years.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Amherst is a stellar school and experience. And their brand new student center will open next Fall. Pomona is also building a brand new global center but it will start construction next Fall and it won't be built or ready for several years. It will demolish the Oldenberg center for language so if that was of interest in Pomona, expect a lot of construction/demolition for the next few years.

Oldenborg is just the dorm space and you lose one dining hall (oh no there’s only 6 left!). The programming, lecture series, etc will continue in frank dining hall. It’ll be ready in summer 2027, which is for great, because if your child is choosing Pomona right now, they couldn’t have entered Oldenborg until the 2027-2028 school year anyway.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Amherst is a stellar school and experience. And their brand new student center will open next Fall. Pomona is also building a brand new global center but it will start construction next Fall and it won't be built or ready for several years. It will demolish the Oldenberg center for language so if that was of interest in Pomona, expect a lot of construction/demolition for the next few years.

I’m not sure the reason to choose 1 college or the other are singular construction projects- both of which aren’t that impactful to campus.

[Anonymous]

Amherst reputation is better but Pomona is more popular.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Amherst reputation is better but Pomona is more popular.

They’re bout equal. Depends on where you want to live. I’d choose the school with the actual major I want if I was OP.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Amherst reputation is better but Pomona is more popular.

They’re bout equal. Depends on where you want to live. I’d choose the school with the actual major I want if I was OP.

+1

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Amherst reputation is better but Pomona is more popular.

They’re bout equal. Depends on where you want to live. I’d choose the school with the actual major I want if I was OP.

+1

+2 (Amherst parent)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Amherst is a stellar school and experience. And their brand new student center will open next Fall. Pomona is also building a brand new global center but it will start construction next Fall and it won't be built or ready for several years. It will demolish the Oldenberg center for language so if that was of interest in Pomona, expect a lot of construction/demolition for the next few years.

Oldenborg is just the dorm space and you lose one dining hall (oh no there’s only 6 left!). The programming, lecture series, etc will continue in frank dining hall. It’ll be ready in summer 2027, which is for great, because if your child is choosing Pomona right now, they couldn’t have entered Oldenborg until the 2027-2028 school year anyway.

It won't be ready summer 2027 it will take much longer, it's a huge project and they've not committed to a definite end date for all of it. CMC's sports bowl construction for the robert day campus is already going to take another 18 months longer than initially thought because ... delays happen in construction when they start.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Amherst is a stellar school and experience. And their brand new student center will open next Fall. Pomona is also building a brand new global center but it will start construction next Fall and it won't be built or ready for several years. It will demolish the Oldenberg center for language so if that was of interest in Pomona, expect a lot of construction/demolition for the next few years.

Oldenborg is just the dorm space and you lose one dining hall (oh no there’s only 6 left!). The programming, lecture series, etc will continue in frank dining hall. It’ll be ready in summer 2027, which is for great, because if your child is choosing Pomona right now, they couldn’t have entered Oldenborg until the 2027-2028 school year anyway.

Oldenborg is also the dining hall that was unique for linguistic/language interested college kids because they had language themed lunch tables. Sad that will be closed next year and possibly longer.

[Anonymous]

From previous thread, 103 students out of 480 at Amherst scored 1530 or above on the SAT while 77 out of 436 scored above that at Pomona.