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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Who says it is “so special”?[/quote]

US News?[/quote]

OP: it’s extremely hard to get in and very highly ranked, so the question was, what is all the hullabaloo about?[/quote]

Are you pretending to be dumb? Look at what components go into rankings, and you'll see what makes Pomona at or near the top of all the LAC rankings.

If I have to spell it out: Pomona is doing well because relative to other peer LACs, it excels in these factors and many more:
- Graduation and retention rates 
- Selectivity and caliber of the entering students 
- Post grad outcomes and earning potential 
- Students receiving competitive fellowships and/or getting into top med/law/business schools
- Financial aid generosity 
- Diversity
- Financial resources/endowment
- Faculty resources/salaries
- Student satisfaction surveys

Goodness. This thread is embarrassing. All these roundabout conversations that really have nothing to do with anything of consequence.[/quote]

So the answer to the question is... US News ranks it highly because of the factors US News takes into account.

I was looking for answers that tended to point more towards the "special sauce" that made kids really want to go there.  The fact that it is on the west coast/good weather seems to be the main answer.[/quote]

But that's not the dominating "special" factor. There are other SLACs on the West Coast like Occidental which aren't perceived to be as desirable, even though Oxy arguably has the better campus, weather, and location compared to Pomona. Also, only some of those factors are part of USNews, so I'm not just regurgitating one perspective. Other rankings value other components, and Pomona generally ranks near the top despite the changed methodology.

There isn't a [i]singular [/i] reason that Pomona is highly desirable. It's a combination of all of the above things and more (Claremont Consortium, internship and research experiences, just the overall experience at a top SLAC vs. most public/private universities, etc.). I guess if your question was- why Pomona over the top East Coast LACs- then you could place a greater emphasis on location and campus climate since most of them (especially Williams/Amherst/Swat) compare in the above metrics. But your question seemed broader in scope. 
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