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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It’s not luck that you had a sunny day - it’s sunny everyday LOL. DD is double majoring in policy and math at Pomona. She has taken classes from CMC and Pitzer and have friends across all 5 schools.  Her classmates are extremely intelligent and motivated, many of them are valedictorians of their high schools. The school promotes collaboration than competition, and kids generally seem happy and laid back. Ontario Int’l Airport is only 15 minutes away but there isn’t a direct flight from where we live (east coast). Or, you can fly to LAX and uber to school, uber fare is about $100. Two things other than the weather that make Pomona vastly different from Williams and other LACs - the consortium you mentioned and diversity of the student body. I’ve got no experience with Williams but my other kid dreams of attending the NESCAC schools. [/quote]
I don’t know if you’ve considered this, but our DD takes the shuttles by the college to LAX and Ontario. Also for lax, you can avoid the uber if you have light luggage since there’s the flyaway bus (~$9) and Metrolink that goes straight from Union Station to Claremont. Nowadays DD’s friends pick her up from the airport, but this might be helpful for freshman.[/quote]

Thanks, that’s good to know. She usually flies to Ontario and her friends pick her up there. [/quote]

Fyi Southwest just started a nonstop from BWI to Ontario

OP you’ve gotten a surprisingly reasonable/constructive thread.

The weather really is nice a lot (although it can be hot at times) and I think the SoCal location makes the kids just a bit more relaxed and happy. If your kid “clicked” at Pomona then I wouldn’t really fight it.

Also that fact that the social scene at Pomona includes all of the 5Cs was important to my kid. The balance of having a small school but not just having a small school worked out. Even with a semester abroad I think things would have felt too small otherwise. [/quote]

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