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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Recently, I talked to a coworker whose daughter is attending Pomona College in California this fall after turning down offers at Yale, Stanford, and Brown. Apparently this isn't uncommon, and there are a number of students picking top LACs over Ivies/comparable universities every year. I didn't want to badger further about why she had done that, so I'm interested from those with similar experiences- why would someone turn down a prestigious university over a liberal arts college?

I don't know much about Pomona, and my little research indicates that it is a reputable school, but it only has 1600 students and an admissions rate double that of Stanford. [/quote]

Fake news. Nobody turns down Yale or Stanford. And few apply to both.[/quote]

Not sure about not applying to both, but my troll sense was tingling.[/quote]

The demographics for the elites actually skew heavily towards regional and international. Duke is heavy mid-Atlantic and east coast, Stanford cleans up from Washington to southern California, and so forth. This is a Beltway forum, the Beltway daughter targets (at least) two completely different California colleges...the most elite prestige schools...bothers with Brown, for some reason...gets into Yale AND Stanford...and chooses SLAC. Literally a 0% chance this is true. There aren't more than a handful of kids each year that get into both Yale and Stanford.[/quote]

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