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[quote=Anonymous]Both are great schools and peers. In terms of selectivity, student body, faculty, and endowment, they are nearly identical. Both also feed as well into grad school as your average Ivy. David Foster Wallace attended Amherst but taught at Pomona.

Amherst is quintessential New England, feeds well into Wall Street, and feels smaller and more isolated than Pomona. The Five College Consortium is cool, but few Amherst students regularly take classes at the other schools and, when they do, it's usually at UMass. Like Williams, Amherst's vibe is a little more preprofessional and mainstream (a decade ago we would have said preppy).

Pomona is just outside LA, feeds well into FAANG, and the 5C is extremely integrated physically, academically, and socially. Like Swarthmore, Pomona's vibe is a little more academic and quirky.

The Venn diagram circles of people who have heard of Amherst and people of have heard of Pomona likely form a near perfect circle of overlap. If you attend one because that "it's better known than the other," you're probably at a cousin's graduation ceremony because nobody smart enough to get into either LAC would likely make that decision on such a dumb basis.[/quote]

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