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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Your research skills are lacking.  Pomona, year in year out, is a top ranked liberal arts college.  It has a small but beautiful campus and a sterling reputation.  Having said that, one should never turn down [b]Stanford[/b].  Why would anyone do that?[/quote]

Ha!  If you ask my DH ( who went to Berkeley) he would say no one should go to Stanford!  It is the one school he doesn't want our kids to go to.  Luckily I don't think this is going to be a problem and no he hasn't told them this to their face!

Just hoping that they don't want to go there ( and it is slim that they would get in anyway)[/quote]

Go Stanford; beat Cal!  (Proud Stanford alum here :))

Seriously, as a native Californian, I know lots of Pomona alums, including a close friend from high school who went to Pomona over Stanford.  Why?  Because people aren't all the same and don't all want the same thing.  Pomona's a terrific school and you can get an excellent education there -- different from, but every bit as strong as Stanford.  And, BTW, in my class at Harvard Law School there were lots of students who had graduated from SLACs.  They were as well-prepared as those of us who had gone to larger, better-known schools.  As for the higher acceptance rate at top SLACs compared to comparable "Ivy peers schools," I agree with the college prof who posted earlier that it probably reflects self-selection on the part of applicants.   [/quote]

Every future interviewer will rightfully question a kid's decision making skills, candlepower, and competitiveness for turning down Stanford (or Yale).[/quote]

1) No future interviewer would even know what other options a high schooler had when choosing his/her eventual college
2) An employer at a company known for its smart employees will completely understand the decision to choose a SLAC over a university
3) You obviously are not in a position where you are regularly interviewing students from elite colleges for employment.[/quote]

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