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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Pomona has impressive outcomes for the top students and mediocre outcomes for the lower tier students who coast by and don't take it seriously. The school has massive grade inflation and a significant number of their enrolled students are diversity tokens that are not competitive overall (no testing submitted, poor AP scores, etc). These are students who get rejected from mid-tier UCs like Irvine and Santa Barbara but somehow into Pomona. Not to mention a significant number of Questbridge and Posse students who don't have the level of preparation that their smartest students do, both in academics and for career prospects. So overall, Pomona outcomes are very lopsided and dependent on the student.

Everyone at CMC does well in terms of outcomes. The school openly looks for people who are ambitious and determined. It's a preprofessional school and almost everyone talks about preparing for the job market all throughout. Amazing internship programs, 9 research institutes, numerous consulting and finance oriented clubs, and applied classes make their students extremely qualified.

I would strongly recommend CMC. With the rankings shift toward outcomes, CMC is tied or above Pomona in virtually every ranking now. CMC is the one that is looking to take the liberal arts colleges to the future. Pomona will be left behind. [/quote]
What a racist and classist comment. DS’s roommate is Questbridge and did 16 APs and had a very high SAT with impressive stats. Stop thinking people of color or poor people are less accomplished. What a nasty person, you are.[/quote]
+1, a Questbridge student we know at the institution went to the best boarding school in the country, others went to top magnet school but aren’t Questbridge/just low income.

The rankings are mostly bs. CMC is known to tighten their course sizes sharply in the fall (many as small as 8 people) to play the ranking games. After years of adding massive merit scholarships, flashy spending programs on students, and trying to make extravagant admitted students events, they still have less than 1/2 the application pool as Pomona and could barely make a science department worth its salt (while paying professors excess of $400,000 to move from other 5Cs and  universities). CMC is so invested in appearance, yet it falls behind still. Last year, Pomona had two tenure track cs positions, and their #1 and #2 choice both accepted their assistant professorships, but CMC tried snatching both with higher pay, and failed, and chose Pomona’s #3 choice. They’ve taken away faculty like Prof. McWilliams-Barndt, but she was losing prominence for years anyway and is bitter that Pomona didn’t lift her to some R1 position like other profs.[/quote]

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