Pomona vs Williams ED for Chemistry/Neuroscience

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Anonymous wrote:It’s really about environment, not the dang weather like everyone here is babbling about.

If you’re a bit more academically intense, doesn’t mean you get better grades but maybe you like constantly talking about school and academic life, Williams is perfect. You should ideally be athletic and into nature if you don’t want to go crazy.

Meanwhile if you’re a bit more relaxed and prefer weighing school and social life, Pomona might be a better idea. More options of things to do and more students around.

You realize that “academically intense” and 40% of the freshman class as recruited athletes (yes, the overall percentage is slightly lower, but attrition) is kind of a contradiction? Not because the athletes aren’t smart, but because, you know, they are playing their sport 3 hours a day? Just sayin’…

Sure but 60% aren’t and need to do something on a rural hill campus, so they work.

Um, think real hard. What kind of culture and expectations pervade the academic experience, in terms of work expectations, when 40% can’t do maximum rigor? If you want to work like a dog, go to Swarthmore. If you are unnecessarily working like a dog at Williams, that isn’t something to be proud of; it’s kind of pathetic.

Williams is damned more academically intense than swarthmore. Look at fellowship output and you’ll see that Williams clobbers Swarthmore. Swarthmore’s intensity is mostly BS marketing.

What a crazy thing to type.

Not at all. Williams has always been the best, most rigorous lac.

You know that you're more inclined to make others think less of Williams with your inarticulate, simplistic takes, don't you?

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Anonymous wrote:It’s really about environment, not the dang weather like everyone here is babbling about.

If you’re a bit more academically intense, doesn’t mean you get better grades but maybe you like constantly talking about school and academic life, Williams is perfect. You should ideally be athletic and into nature if you don’t want to go crazy.

Meanwhile if you’re a bit more relaxed and prefer weighing school and social life, Pomona might be a better idea. More options of things to do and more students around.

You realize that “academically intense” and 40% of the freshman class as recruited athletes (yes, the overall percentage is slightly lower, but attrition) is kind of a contradiction? Not because the athletes aren’t smart, but because, you know, they are playing their sport 3 hours a day? Just sayin’…

Sure but 60% aren’t and need to do something on a rural hill campus, so they work.

Um, think real hard. What kind of culture and expectations pervade the academic experience, in terms of work expectations, when 40% can’t do maximum rigor? If you want to work like a dog, go to Swarthmore. If you are unnecessarily working like a dog at Williams, that isn’t something to be proud of; it’s kind of pathetic.

Williams is damned more academically intense than swarthmore. Look at fellowship output and you’ll see that Williams clobbers Swarthmore. Swarthmore’s intensity is mostly BS marketing.

What a crazy thing to type.

Not at all. Williams has always been the best, most rigorous lac.

You know that you're more inclined to make others think less of Williams with your inarticulate, simplistic takes, don't you?

Nothing simplistic about a data-driven fact.