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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Bowdoin higher than Pomona? Wtf? [/quote]

what's the problem?  Seems about right to me.[/quote]

Lol[/quote]

lol what?  Sounds correct to me.  Any specifics suggesting otherwise????[/quote]

Yes, actually- for the objective factors US News accounts for, Pomona has a higher grad rate, a higher retention rate, higher test scores (despite Bowdoin being test optional), smaller class sizes, a lower student to faculty ratio, a larger endowment/financial resources, a lower acceptance rate, higher professor salaries, and a larger percent of students in the top 10% of their HS class.

Bowdoin has a higher alumni giving rate, better counselor ratings, a higher percent of full time faculty, and a higher percent of faculty with terminal degrees.

Not going to argue which is better overall, but there are many factors in which Pomona excels. US News isn't favorable toward Pomona for a number of reasons- peer assessment means favoring of Northeast schools which are more familiar with one another than one thousands of miles away, low chance to get over-performance points with a high actual graduation rate, and a penalty of professor salaries due to the high cost of California. Also, Pomona is in the unfortunate position to have a mediocre state public school with a similar name- Cal Poly Pomona. Cal Poly Pomona is a huge school and far more well-known. Counselors rated Pomona 13th overall, below both neighboring schools Claremont McKenna and Harvey Mudd, and the only explanation can be that they thought of Cal Poly.

In other words- [b]read the methodology and contextualize the performance.[/b] [/quote]

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