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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]Williams[/b]
Pros: Wealthiest LAC, Beautiful, manicured campus, Access to the Berkshires and Hiking Opportunities, Tutorials, WEPO, Entry program, Great Arts Culture, Best LAC for math
Cons: The students are very reserved and academically intense, The school is in the middle of nowhere, Athlete | Student divide, Frosh Quad dorms are pretty iffy, some are downright shabby, Getting rid of their Mystic Campus
[b]Amherst[/b]
Pros: A very chill student body compared to Williams, Best LAC for pre-law, Open Curriculum, Amazing Dorms, Beautiful surroundings, Access to 5 College Consortium
Cons: Campus is pretty shabby and kinda ugly, Dorms have had rats and other infestations, including bats, Dining Hall...there's 1 and it's bad, Athlete | Student Divide
[b]Swarthmore[/b]
Pros: Best LAC for graduate school admissions, beautiful, manicured campus, Access to Philly with Train station on campus, Cash Free Campus, Engineering program
Cons: Worst place to go if Pre-Professional, Academics over everything with a toxic relationship to "rigor," Has a dying/dead Consortium, Food is allegedly inedible, no social scene/party life after greek life disbanded-which had a really negative culture of SA
[b]Pomona[/b]
[b]Pros: Gorgeous Campus, Claremont College Consortium, Typically the best LAC for grad Econ, Public Policy Program, Near the Mountains and access to LA, Most Diverse LAC, Downing Scholars 
Cons: Dorms with no AC, CS program over-enrollment issues, the head of LACs with terrible Palestinian Protests, 1 hr train ride to LA, smallest LAC class size in WASP[/b][/quote]
I graduated about 5 years back from Pomona and also cosign this response. It is a fantastic place for those who like the liberal arts college vibe but also want more diverse academic offerings, access to a broader, larger community, and those who love a good backpacking or beach trip :lol: . I do think the class sizes are very underrated, since the amount of schools makes it so you can have tiny tiny classes. By my junior year, my major had 6 person course mixed tutorial/full class structure, where you were able to present problems with an assigned peer on a particular day, and then came together as a class to weigh your approach to situations-which was a fascinating way of doing class that I haven't seen anywhere else. Pomona is for students who definitely work as hard as the other LACs, but they want to spend their weekends in LA or on a hiking trip or at a CMC party. Students are whizzes but very down to earth about it. One of my mentors from freshman year goes to MIT now for a PhD, and you wouldn't ever know she's bright, because she just didn't care to talk about how "hard her work is" like STEM majors at other colleges.[/quote]

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