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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It’s a street with some mom and pop stores on it like Highland Ave in Los Angeles. Nothing extraordinary about it all and whe done with walking up and down it where are you going to go? San Berdoo for a big night out? East coast people forget that California is a car culture. It’s very difficult to get around without one. You aren’t going to pop on the 5, the 91 etc just to Sanger over to the beach. How are you going to get from LAX? Fly into Ontario? My relatives went to the Claremont colleges. I understand Pomona is way up there in rankings (I don’t understand why - I would go to Williams or any other of the east-coast SLACs over Pomona) and Claremont is good but Scripps? Pitzer? Not with the money.  East coast students have stars in their eyes about SoCal which is quickly destroyed once they get out there. [/quote]

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I went there and I agree.[/quote]

Times have changed. Public transit is a lot better in the area.

DS went to Pomona from the East Coast without a car and was able to do just about all the touristy things LA has over my time. Pomona funded a bunch of trips regularly and even sponsored a competition for those undertaking their list : https://www.pomona.edu/life-at-pomona/47-things-do-leaving-pomona

Getting to DTLA/Union Station is a direct train ride from campus. If you want to go further, you can then directly connect to the Red Line to go to USC or Hollywood,  take the purple line to Koreatown, take the LAX Flyway bus to get to the airport, connect to the silver line to go to Santa Monica or UCLA,  take the Metrolink to Oceanside or Amtrak to San Diego, take the yellow line to Chinatown and Pasadena, take a bus to the Hollywood Bowl on concert days, and take FlixBus or Megabus to San Francisco.

The outdoors club funds student led trips to all the natural beauty in the area. DS went kayaking in the channel islands, several times to Ski-Beach day (ski and surf on the same day- a Pomona tradition), Joshua Tree, Sequoia NP, and more. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Loose_(outing_club)

He loved his time at Pomona. While he did wish Claremont had more to offer for college students, he appreciated coming back home to a safe and cozy place after a bustling weekend getaway in LA. [/quote]

I have coworkers in LA who tell me things about the public transit there, and I certainly wouldn't want my daughter riding it. Maybe not even my son, tbh.

When I was there, they did have bus trips to the beach (a bus hired by the school) and it was a pretty long and exhausting trip.[/quote]

I can't imagine going to school where all the homeless in the LA has access to Pomona College for the price of a metro ride. [/quote]

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