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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]These are all wonderful schools.

Where does she want to live? Glorious weather but car-dependent? Pomona. College town? Carleton. Suburb with easy access to a real city? Swarthmore. The sticks? Middlebury or Williams.

Or by vibe: Carleton is quirky; Williams is preppy; as is Middlebury (although not quite so preppy as Williams); Swarthmore is intellectual; Pomona is balanced.

Carleton might be the tightest fit with what you've shared about her, but really, any of these places would offer what she needs (and then some).[/quote]
She is enamored about the idea of going to California for college, like a lot of college kids on the east coast. I guess she wasn't counting on getting into Pomona since it's the most selective on her list, but the weather and proximity to LA is a big pull for her. But she also has concerns- that Pomona may not be well-known on the East Coast, and that she'll be so far away from family (extends a bit to Carleton too, but it's closer). Ultimately though, she has said the location is just one factor, and not her most important. By far her biggest thing is- which school will give her the best education possible and open doors for her to go to graduate school? But it seems all these schools offer distinguished academics.

She's interested in attending fully funded graduate schools, and since most of the top programs in psych and cognitive science are on the East Coast, one of her thoughts is to go to Pomona or Carleton for a new experience and then hopefully to an Ivy or comparable U for graduate school for yet another experience. I told her she could also go to great U's on the west coast, like Berkeley, UCLA (regarded #1 for psych), and Stanford, and that the Northeast experience could be very different and interesting for her too. [/quote]
Go west, young woman! Pomona is as well known (and as well regarded) as any of the other (wonderful) schools on this list -- by top-flight grad programs, which is all that really matters in this context. No time like the present to spread those wings: Take the new experience now rather than "saving it for later," I say![/quote]

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