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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you're Pomona admit caliber then you could easily get into a top 20 university. And in that scenario I struggle to see why you would pick Pomona. No merit aid, no prestige, lackluster alumni network, poor professional advising.

At least Williams and Amherst have some clout on the east coast. In California, no one takes Pomona seriously. Harvey Mudd and Claremont McKenna are more famous. [/quote]

Sounds like you either are in a very insular part of California or you don't know many people who know much about colleges in California (or only know the colleges that produce grads in a particular field).  Pomona is definitely prestigious, although private schools generally are higher profile for the average person in the east coast than the west coast, which has better state schools than the east coast.  It's true that people going into STEM or CS rate Harvey Mudd higher (as the only engineering/STEM school in the Claremont schools) and Claremont-McKenna send a higher % of kids to business (according to their outcomes pages, about 50% of CMK grads go to accounting/consulting/financial services, while Pomona has about 20% going to consulting/investment banking etc), but the largest single employers of Pomona grads in 2022 were Boston Consulting, Deloitte, Google, and Microsoft.  The same big companies recruit and hire at all the Claremont Schools (it's literally one campus and they do events/interviewing for all students).  Pomona grads go wherever they want, just like grads of Amherst, Williams and many other small liberal arts colleges, but they go to a more diverse group of employers and industries, plus go to grad school at high numbers.  Even so, Pomona's average starting salary is about the same or a little higher than CMK's and other east coast liberal arts schools.

Pomona is harder to get into than most top universities, so it is by definition more selective and those great students choose it over schools you think are more well-known.  Employers and grad schools know that it's the place to find those great students.  But if it's important to you that your neighbors wherever you live know much about the school, then by all means send your kid elsewhere.  Part of its attraction is that the kids are pretty comfortable in their own skin and not going because they or their parents are too worried about that kind of stuff.[/quote]

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