Amherst and Pomona

[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]

Anonymous wrote:

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]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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]

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.

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.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

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.

Language tables are moving to frank blue room. Nothing is changing other than not being able to live in Oldenborg- Pomona will still have language halls and tables.

[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.

Would you have told a student not to go to Amherst in 2023 when they started construction on the student center?

[Anonymous]

I’d choose larger schools with more robust, known faculty

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’d choose larger schools with more robust, known faculty

So a worse choice if you need to go to grad school

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I wish more colleges had the 5C setup- it’s very ideal

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