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Anonymous wrote:Pomona is much harder to get into and has a much better reputation.
Of course, Pomona has a better reputation than Occidental. Pomona is ranked no. 7 in National Liberal Arts Colleges by USNW; Oxy is at 35.
Let’s look at statistics: Oxy’s selectivity (what percent of applications is accepted) is 44%. Pomona’s Selectivity is 7.4%.
Pomona’s yield is 49.89% (the number of accepted students who actually enroll); Oxy’s yield is only 13.01%, based on IvyWise just two days ago. Clearly, Oxy is a safety school for most applicants.
Also, according to Ivy Wise, Oxy’s yield is dropping year by year: in 2029, the yield was only 13.01%; in 2028, it was 17.83%; in 2027, it was 20.29%.
Oxy’s SAT average is a 1380-1520; ACT 32-34
Pomona’s SAT average is 1490-1560; ACT average 33-35.
Then there are the missions of the two schools. If you want your kid to be employed as a SJW after graduation, Oxy is your choice. If you want your kid to get into difficult grad schools to get into, it’s Pomona.
IMHO as a graduate of Oxy, you could do better. Oxy was once on the same level as Pomona and Stanford. It is no longer. If you want your kid to be hired into the workforce as a SJWarrior/DEI/social engineering work, then Oxy is your choice. If you want top education to get into top grad schools, you go to Pomona.
Yes, as someone above said, you can get merit at Oxy, but that’s only because it had a catastrophic 15% reduction in last year’s class (I have no idea how that couldn’t have been filled by waitlist – I guess the applicants were that poor). You can find this by googling Occidental College Tom Stritikus 15% enrollment). So right after the President’s announcement of the 15% reduction in class size, there was the usual “send money to Oxy" campaign; professors were told not to engage in expensive career-building activities; faculty openings were not filled, and a specialist was hired for admissions. That specialist decided that to boost yield numbers, Oxy would grant $15K “Oxy commitment scholarships” to anyone who would sign on the line.
Why does Oxy have the 15% reduction in class enrollment? Because it did a lousy job of protecting Jewish students at Occidental. This started under the Biden administration, which sued (DOJ, civil rights, US Dept of Education, Brandeis Center) for failure to protect the Jewish students' civil rights under Title VI. Oxy settled in fall of 2024 but recently was accused of breaching that agreement by Harmeet Dhillon’s deputy because Oxy allowed yet another encampment on grounds. Over 15 Jewish students have had to leave Oxy since Oct. 7, according to the parents’ groups on Facebook. The most recent was a full scholarship kid from Israel who transferred to USC.
The point is that the word is out that Oxy is not a good place for Jewish students, just like Columbia and Harvard.
Why does Oxy have a 15% reduction in class enrollment? Because it did a lousy job of protecting Jewish students at Occidental. This started under the Biden administration, which sued (DOJ, Civil Rights Division, US Dept of Education, Brandeis Center) for failure to protect the Jewish students’ civil rights under Title VI. Oxy settled in the fall of 2024 but recently was accused of breaching that agreement by Harmeet Dhillon’s deputy because Oxy allowed yet another encampment on private grounds, mostly by private Hamas agents.
Over 15 Jewish students have had to leave Oxy since Oct. 7 according to the parents’ anti-semitism groups on Facebook. The most recent was a full scholarship kid from Israel who transferred to USC.
You can find this all online - facebook, instagram, X.
The point is that the word is out that Oxy is not a good place for Jewish students, just like Columbia and Harvard.
FWIW, the only other college I know of that had a 15% fall in enrollment closed last month.
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