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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][twitter][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Don't do ED if you are not really committed. I keep hearing more stories of regret and no college is a golden ticket. 
I think AWS is a better acronym (and more modern in our tech-heavy world). Bluntly, Pomona hasn't really been a peer of the other 3 any more than Wellesley or Bowdoin. Depending on the academic subject and career field, it isn't necessarily the best of the Claremont Colleges either. Even just in the rankings game, AWS are the only LACs USNWR has ever ranked 1st and none of them has ever been ranked below 4.

Personally, Swarthmore was clearly my favorite visiting those schools. Its campus is beautiful and its proximity to a city is a big plus for me. It has good STEM options too.

Williams felt isolated even when it wasn't winter. Amherst was nice but the town wasn't great and I ended up preferring Northampton and Smith's campus to Amherst's. The 7 Sisters schools are excellent options and have great name recognition for LACs too.[/quote]
Your entire Pomona commentary is strange. Overall, Pomona is the best 5C- there’s no competition unless your sole focus is economics or engineering. It has pretty clear academic reasons to be a peer and even superior often than other WASP schools.

Pomona has better outcomes than Bowdoin and Wellesley, similar outcomes to Swarthmore more than Williams (very Econ heavy).[/quote]
+1, the line “Depending on the academic subject and career field, it isn't necessarily the best of the Claremont Colleges either” Was where I knew the PP was just speaking out of personal bias, because that is true of all the WASP. Williams isn’t #1 in almost any of the academic fields for lac => grad school, doesn’t make it a worse school, obviously. It also doesn’t have the best LAC department in every academic subject, nor do any of the WASP.

[b]These days, Claremont McKenna is ranking #1 for LACs off to wall street[/b] and the average salary is very high, but it isn’t a holistic liberal arts college in the way Swat or Pomona are. It’s just a strange comparison- like trying to pin Dartmouth against Caltech.[/quote]

[b]Absolutely not,[/b] three Amherst, Williams, and Middlebury all place as well or better than CMC. You should be proud though, that is some pretty exceptional company for CMC.[/quote]
Not if you actually look at data: [url]https://www.collegetransitions.com/dataverse/top-feeders-banking[/url]. It is great that CMC is amazing at finance, but this is a particularly useless fact for a majority of liberal arts college students.[/quote]

Here's a similar ranking for analyst placement for IB: https://www.peakframeworks.com/post/ib-target-schools

In the weighted ranking, you'll find Middlebury, CMC, Williams, and Amherst---in that order.[/quote]
Why choose a list from 2023? Seems disingenuous. [/quote]

Because it uses a slightly different methodology and is only two years old. Hardly disingenuous. Sorry it doesn't show you what you want to see. [/quote]

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