So, where are your kids starting college next fall?
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Schooled! |
Anonymous
| Morgan State |
Anonymous
This is one of the biggest problems with Pomona. No one's ever heard of Pomona College - outside Pomona. Everyone's heard about Cal Poly Pomona because their engineering dept. is nationally ranked. |
Anonymous
Sure the general name recognition is low, but the people who matter (elite job recruiters, grad schools, fellowships, etc.) have heard of Pomona. Forbes is an outcome based ranking (salaries, representation of leaders in various industries, fellowship winners, PhDs) and has put Pomona in the top 10 among all colleges & universities pretty much every year. LinkedIn has a "similar universities" feature and the six for Pomona C are Harvard, Berkeley, Brown, Stanford, UChicago, and Yale. Wasn't the acceptance rate 6% this year? I don't think you could go wrong by going there. |
Anonymous
Those same people are the ones who hear UVA and just think “big state U” |
Anonymous
The people who matter - recruiters for jobs/internships, grad schools, etc. - know about Pomona. I really don't care whether or not Joe Schmoe down the street has heard of it. |
Anonymous
Almost everyone in my family is a product of an Ivy-League education, and we all know of and hold Pomona to high regard. |
Anonymous
Of course everyone knows Pomona College is not in Pomona. Absolutely not impugning the quality of the school. Great school. |
Anonymous
Congrats! Our D is also going to Amherst over Williams, Swarthmore, and Wellesley. We are thrilled for her 
It's so interesting to see all the LAC love here. Middlebury, Pomona, Amherst x2, Bates! |
Anonymous
We are heading there with our 11th grader. What made your DC choose Xavier? |
Anonymous
Well actually you've got the wrong Cal Poly campus. Cal Poly San Luis Obispo has the nationally ranked engineering program. Cal Poly Pomona is better known for it's ag school. |
Anonymous
I'm not PP but my kid is going to Xavier! She chose it primarily for the occupational therapy program. It's a combined BA program where you can earn a BA and master's in 5 1/2 years instead of the usual six AND you don't need to apply to OT programs - as long as you keep a certain GPA as an undergrad, you have a spot at Xavier. But less specifically to that program, she liked the campus, loves college basketball, and actually found Cincinnati very appealing. She found the campus community very welcoming and tight knit. She also likes the Jesuit model of education. As a parent, my wallet really likes it because with merit aid, it's pretty comparable costwise to an in-state VA school (and my DD was not at the top of her class - she had a 3.75 GPA and 29 ACT) and Cincinnati is soooo easy to get to. When we flew out to visit last spring I think we paid something like $95 for RT, nonstop tix. |
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Both campuses are well known, may be in different engineering disciplines. https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/rankings/engineering-civil |
Anonymous
If we're going off that, then Harvey Mudd (one of Pomona Colleges's sister colleges) is listed as #1 for reputation score- above both Cal Polys: https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/rankings/engineering-overall Ask most people though, and they'd think you made the name up or they misheard Harvard Med. The survey is done by engineering professionals, though, and they know of the school. |
Anonymous
I have a friend's D who goes to Harvey Mudd. I also have a neighbor' S who graduated from Cal Poly Pomona this past year. They are very different schools. Californians are blessed to have schools like Stanford, Cal Tech, and Harvey Mudd. But thank God California also has schools like Cal Poly Pomona that never aspire to be top 1% in the country and the world. Cal Poly Pomona aspires to take in working class students and provide them with hands-on practical engineering training. |