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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Probably the most famous Pomona alum is Jennifer Doudna. Meanwhile, Amherst has changed American history with alum like Calvin Coolidge and Harlan Fiske Stone. Hell the most famous faculty member of Pomona, David foster Wallace, is an Amherst alum! There’s not a single Pomona alum who is a current professor at Amherst[/quote]

I guess no more arguments, lol.[/quote]
There's not much to say. There's been Pomona alum that are professors at Harvard, Yale, Stanford...
I'd also argue that CRISPR is more consequential than both the Amherst alum PP was bragging about, and that both schools are great in their own respects.[/quote]

A random alum or two is meaningless.[/quote]
[url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Pomona_College_people[/url]
[url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Amherst_College_people[/url][/quote]

Looks like Amherst outcome is better.[/quote]
Really? Just checked both sources. Amherst has a boost from being 60 years older than Pomona, so many of these alum are either before Pomona is an institution or before it has any real time to establish itself.

They both are incredibly weak when it comes to modern alum (class of 1990 and above). Schools like Stanford and Harvard are always pumping out the best next talent.[/quote]

I guess we look at different things.

Nobel Prize winner, Amherst 5 (from 1990 - 2017), Pomona 1 - 2020
Pulitzer Prize winners, Amherst 12 (1968 - 2007), Pomona 4  (1951-2012)

And Amherst's strength is supposed to produce lawyer, banker and wall street investor.[/quote]
Amherst's most recent alum to get a nobel prize is from class of 1967. Doudna is 1985.
Amherst's latest alum for a pulitzer is class of 1989. Pomona's was 1987.
You're bragging about 60 year olds. [/quote]

Nice spin, if you can't win with count, then win with age.[/quote]
Why does this matter so much to you? From memory, Swat is something like 4th per capita for alumni to Nobel placement. It's a cool fact, but it doesn't really say much other than Swat has been lucky to attract some good students, who went to the right PhDs for the time. I don' think Swat of the 1980s is anything like Swat today. I actually know that not to be true, and it's a waste of time arguing about this stupid shit when 99% of Americans can't even pronounce, nor spell Swarthmore.[/quote]

For the sake of the argument, Yes.

And you just did it [/quote]

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