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[quote=Anonymous]Straight up bonkers to call Pomona and Harvey Mudd matches, let alone safeties. Here is the info from Harvey Mudd's profile:

SAT Scores – Middle 50 Percent
SAT Evidence-Based Reading and Writing: 720–760
SAT Math: 770–800
SAT Subject Test Math II: 760–800
ACT Composite – Middle 50 Percent
34–35

These testing standards are higher than Stanford, Yale, Harvard, ETC. I recall only Caltech and MIT are higher.

Pomona is an extremely diverse school; while their raw testing is slightly lower than Harvey Mudd, they're taking a higher chunk of their class as URMs/low income students than just about any other top school. If you're a white privileged applicant from this area, Pomona will have extremely high admission standards for you. According to the Bethesda Magazine (https://bethesdamagazine.com/bethesda-magazine/september-october-2018/where-bethesda-area-high-school-grads-applied-to-college/), only 4.8% of Bethesda school applicants got in at Pomona- lower than Princeton, Stanford, Yale, and Harvard. Claremont McKenna College, which is another tough school to get into within the system, had only 5.1% getting in, again lower than all of the aforementioned schools.

Scripps and Pitzer could be matches- never safeties with such a low acceptance rate- but are still very selective schools. The consortium is good to check out if visiting west, but these schools are among the toughest liberal art colleges in the country to get into. [/quote]

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