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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]To those ill-informed saying Pomona is more selective.  Check out the SAT test scores:

Hopkins enrolled: 1460 - 1580 (URM Diversity: 6% Black, 14% Latino)
ACT: 33-35

https://bigfuture.collegeboard.org/college-university-search/johns-hopkins-university

Pomona: 1330 - 1510 (URM Diversity: 9% Black, 16% Latino)
ACT: 30 - 34

Pomona acceptance rate is 8% versus JHU at 11% .  Pomona is also gaming the hell out of the system with Early Decision I and II to get whatever leftovers they can.

I'm a former Hopkins grad who has lived in Socal (Orange County).  Would not recommend Pomona at all.  If you're interested in grad school, don't sell yourself short - especially in STEM.  You will not as respected in engineering coming out of Pomona versus a top tier engineering school like Hopkins - period.  Humanities is a different matter.[/quote]

Hi, can you share why "you would not recommend Pomona at all" for STEM? Pomona ranks 12th in the country for producing STEM PhDs per capita, while JHU is 31st (according to NSF data). A much higher percent of Pomona students have won the top science undergrad distinctions like the NSF, Churchill, Goldwater, Beckman Scholar, etc. (in many cases, Pomona actually has more winners in total than JHU). A study by Nature says that Johns Hopkins has 49 alumni represented in the national academies of sciences, while Pomona has 11; given that Pomona has 1600 students and Hopkins has 20000, that means Pomona is outperforming JHU by 3. Both schools are listed as the top 25 schools for contributing to the sciences.

Pomona and the other top SLACs are excellent for a STEM education. Those interested in engineering could do a 3-2 with Caltech from Pomona, though I agree it doesn't make much sense to pick a school for a department it doesn't have. CS, biology, chemistry, physics, math, geology? Pomona is phenomenal. I actually know a chem student in the Class of 2015 who turned down MIT, Yale, and Stanford to pick Pomona. She killed it there, got a Churchill, and then went onto Stanford for her PhD. [/quote]

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