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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Pomona does have a huge endowment for its size and they spend a fair bit on students. [/quote]

Both Amherst and Pomona are among a handful of schools that give every single student some degree of a subsidy to the full cost of attendance, even those who pay sticker price. Both schools spent over $135,000 per undergraduate last year.

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Really? Can you share more about what this ends up looking like for full-pay families and whether/where this is advertised? We're a full-pay family with a kid headed to a different top 10 LAC next year but D also looked at Amherst and Pomona and toured and we didn't pick up on this info. [/quote]

I am not that poster but my experience was that Pomona funds a lot of kids during the summer to do research (or research-like things) and there’s also a fair bit of money available for student activities and things (but it’s not really anything you could budget for as a parent). [/quote]

Okay, thanks. The LAC our D is headed to offers those things too. I don't think it's that unusual among selective LAC's if that's what we're talking about. I thought the PP meant that Amherst and Pomona directly subsidize tuition to some degree for all students, which would be a surprise to me. [/quote]

Not at Amherst: They say 41 percent pay full tuition. (https://www.amherst.edu/admission/financial_aid). But everyone's eligible for summer internship subsidy.[/quote]

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