Pomona

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Anonymous wrote:CMC grad, so while I find most Pomona grads insufferable, I can comment on the "everyone who matters knows it" thing vs. other larger schools, which I have absolutely found to be true. People in a position to hire grads are very familiar with these schools and their quality.

Further, I've found that schools or this size create a deeper network you can call on for life... If I reach out to someone who went to CMC (or frankly any of the 5Cs) on linkedin, I have basically a 100% response rate. There's a built in connection there to other folks who briefly lived in Claremont. I assume the same thing happens in other small schools, but what's cool about the claremont colleges is that the alumni network between all of them is pretty huge and diverse.

My husband went to UVA and "oh I went to UVA too" does not create nearly the same personal connections.

DC is heading to a Claremont school in the fall. This is great to hear.

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Anonymous wrote:CMC grad, so while I find most Pomona grads insufferable, I can comment on the "everyone who matters knows it" thing vs. other larger schools, which I have absolutely found to be true. People in a position to hire grads are very familiar with these schools and their quality.

Further, I've found that schools or this size create a deeper network you can call on for life... If I reach out to someone who went to CMC (or frankly any of the 5Cs) on linkedin, I have basically a 100% response rate. There's a built in connection there to other folks who briefly lived in Claremont. I assume the same thing happens in other small schools, but what's cool about the claremont colleges is that the alumni network between all of them is pretty huge and diverse.

My husband went to UVA and "oh I went to UVA too" does not create nearly the same personal connections.

DC is heading to a Claremont school in the fall. This is great to hear.

It’s just about the most perfect place to go to college - I hope he or she loves it like I did.

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Anonymous wrote:I have never really understood why anyone goes there because, if you have the grades and all, why not go to a bigger school that people have actually heard of? What’s the appeal? I’m stumped.

Anyone who matters has heard of Pomona. Believe it or not, for many of us, we don’t care what schools Joe Schmoe has heard of or if the people on the Beltway will be impressed by a Pomona sticker.

I know many people who have never heard of Pomona. They matter, you elitist snob.

No one in a position to a hire a Pomona grad for a job hasn’t heard of Pomona

Does this include fast food restaurants?

Ha ha ha you make joke, that Pomona guy can only get fast food jobs ‘cause the school is a bad school! You are so funny!

PP really ought to go into comedy or audition for SNL with that level of wit.

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Anonymous wrote:CMC grad, so while I find most Pomona grads insufferable, I can comment on the "everyone who matters knows it" thing vs. other larger schools, which I have absolutely found to be true. People in a position to hire grads are very familiar with these schools and their quality.

Further, I've found that schools or this size create a deeper network you can call on for life... If I reach out to someone who went to CMC (or frankly any of the 5Cs) on linkedin, I have basically a 100% response rate. There's a built in connection there to other folks who briefly lived in Claremont. I assume the same thing happens in other small schools, but what's cool about the claremont colleges is that the alumni network between all of them is pretty huge and diverse.

My husband went to UVA and "oh I went to UVA too" does not create nearly the same personal connections.

DC is heading to a Claremont school in the fall. This is great to hear.

It’s just about the most perfect place to go to college - I hope he or she loves it like I did.

The town is not like many other towns in that part of CA. Boring compared to college towns but ... I like it there ... there are better restaurants on any three blocks of Claremont than there are in the entire DMV.

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Anonymous wrote:I have never really understood why anyone goes there because, if you have the grades and all, why not go to a bigger school that people have actually heard of? What’s the appeal? I’m stumped.

Anyone who matters has heard of Pomona. Believe it or not, for many of us, we don’t care what schools Joe Schmoe has heard of or if the people on the Beltway will be impressed by a Pomona sticker.

I know many people who have never heard of Pomona. They matter, you elitist snob.

No one in a position to a hire a Pomona grad for a job hasn’t heard of Pomona

Does this include fast food restaurants?

Ha ha ha you make joke, that Pomona guy can only get fast food jobs ‘cause the school is a bad school! You are so funny!

PP really ought to go into comedy or audition for SNL with that level of wit.

I’ve been told. But it was really just a throw away line.

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Anonymous wrote:I have never really understood why anyone goes there because, if you have the grades and all, why not go to a bigger school that people have actually heard of? What’s the appeal? I’m stumped.

My kid went to Bowdoin so it was a similar scenario. My immigrant relatives actually couldn't believe my bright kid was going to go to this school they had never heard of - until they started asking the other senior partners and coworkers. My kid wanted a small to medium school, with a town, a good campus and strong academics. Bowdoin was all that. There were things that my kid didn't like about their time there but academics were strong and there are lifelong friends. Kid ended up going to an ivy grad school and people recognize that name just fine.

Bowdoin is no Pomona. Not in the same league.

No dog in this fight, but Bowdoin is definitely in the same league.

In what parallel universe?

I have to also ask: what criteria are used to to make that determination. Under the USN criteria,

Pomona is #5 and Bowdoin #6.

So unless the primary criteria is "the weather", or referring to NESCAC vs SCIAC, then yes, Bowdoin and Pomona are absolutely, positively in the same league.

not historically. and no serious person thinks so.

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Anonymous wrote:I have never really understood why anyone goes there because, if you have the grades and all, why not go to a bigger school that people have actually heard of? What’s the appeal? I’m stumped.

My kid went to Bowdoin so it was a similar scenario. My immigrant relatives actually couldn't believe my bright kid was going to go to this school they had never heard of - until they started asking the other senior partners and coworkers. My kid wanted a small to medium school, with a town, a good campus and strong academics. Bowdoin was all that. There were things that my kid didn't like about their time there but academics were strong and there are lifelong friends. Kid ended up going to an ivy grad school and people recognize that name just fine.

NESCAC undergrad, ivy grad.....it’s what DW and I did and it’s what DC will do as well.

Barring rejections?

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I’d go with CMC. Better professors.

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Anonymous wrote:I have never really understood why anyone goes there because, if you have the grades and all, why not go to a bigger school that people have actually heard of? What’s the appeal? I’m stumped.

Anyone who matters has heard of Pomona. Believe it or not, for many of us, we don’t care what schools Joe Schmoe has heard of or if the people on the Beltway will be impressed by a Pomona sticker.

I know many people who have never heard of Pomona. They matter, you elitist snob.

No one in a position to a hire a Pomona grad for a job hasn’t heard of Pomona

Does this include fast food restaurants?

Ha ha ha you make joke, that Pomona guy can only get fast food jobs ‘cause the school is a bad school! You are so funny!

PP really ought to go into comedy or audition for SNL with that level of wit.

I’ve been told. But it was really just a throw away line.

And you should have thrown it away.

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Anonymous wrote:I have never really understood why anyone goes there because, if you have the grades and all, why not go to a bigger school that people have actually heard of? What’s the appeal? I’m stumped.

My kid went to Bowdoin so it was a similar scenario. My immigrant relatives actually couldn't believe my bright kid was going to go to this school they had never heard of - until they started asking the other senior partners and coworkers. My kid wanted a small to medium school, with a town, a good campus and strong academics. Bowdoin was all that. There were things that my kid didn't like about their time there but academics were strong and there are lifelong friends. Kid ended up going to an ivy grad school and people recognize that name just fine.

Bowdoin is no Pomona. Not in the same league.

No dog in this fight, but Bowdoin is definitely in the same league.

In what parallel universe?

I have to also ask: what criteria are used to to make that determination. Under the USN criteria,

Pomona is #5 and Bowdoin #6.

So unless the primary criteria is "the weather", or referring to NESCAC vs SCIAC, then yes, Bowdoin and Pomona are absolutely, positively in the same league.

not historically. and no serious person thinks so.

Yes, historically. And yes, every serious person thinks so, which is why you claim you do not.

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Anonymous wrote:I have never really understood why anyone goes there because, if you have the grades and all, why not go to a bigger school that people have actually heard of? What’s the appeal? I’m stumped.

My kid went to Bowdoin so it was a similar scenario. My immigrant relatives actually couldn't believe my bright kid was going to go to this school they had never heard of - until they started asking the other senior partners and coworkers. My kid wanted a small to medium school, with a town, a good campus and strong academics. Bowdoin was all that. There were things that my kid didn't like about their time there but academics were strong and there are lifelong friends. Kid ended up going to an ivy grad school and people recognize that name just fine.

Bowdoin is no Pomona. Not in the same league.

No dog in this fight, but Bowdoin is definitely in the same league.

In what parallel universe?

I have to also ask: what criteria are used to to make that determination. Under the USN criteria,

Pomona is #5 and Bowdoin #6.

So unless the primary criteria is "the weather", or referring to NESCAC vs SCIAC, then yes, Bowdoin and Pomona are absolutely, positively in the same league.

not historically. and no serious person thinks so.

Yes, historically. And yes, every serious person thinks so, which is why you claim you do not.

+1 Bowdoin graduates include Longfellow, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Admiral Peary, and a US president (even if it is Franklin Pierce). It’s been an extremely prestigious academic institution for a very, very long time.

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The poster who says they are not in the same
league is a troll or a dolt. Move on.

[Anonymous]

My son was the valedictorian of his high school. His guidance counselor started telling us about Pomona his junior year as a likely great fit school. Ultimately, we exercised parental discretion and limited him to applying to schools on the East Coast, but by all accounts Pomona is up there among LACs with Williams & Amherst.

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Bowdoin>>>>Pomona

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I'm the parent who initially posted about Bowdoin. I have no need to defend the academic credentials of the school and I had no intention to turn this into a Bowdoin v. Pomona thread. My point was that small, rigorous liberal arts colleges may not have the name recognition of a big university with top athletic teams, but the education is worth it and graduates often attend ivies for graduate school.