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[quote=Anonymous]Here are the reasons to pick Hopkins over Pomona:

1- Finances; Hopkins is considerably cheaper
2- You're a cutting edge, star student who has engaged with substantial research and has the aptitude/knowledge of a junior college student or higher
3- You want to be surrounded by more ambitious, competitive people and the top of the top (the top 5% of students at Johns Hopkins are far above the top 5% of Pomona or any other LAC)

Otherwise, I would go to Pomona. I am a firm believer of the power of the liberal arts college experience, and it's hard to get better than one as elite, endowed, and top-notch as Pomona. That school is known for its STEM excellence- it ranks 12th per capita for producing STEM PhDs (Hopkins is 31st) and in terms of the absolute number of winners of NSF, Goldwater, Churchill, and other prestigious science undergrad awards, Pomona beats Hopkins despite being much smaller. You won't be able to do the same cutting edge research at Pomona, but that is always available at graduate school. Use undergrad to hone in on the fundamentals, get meaningful and empowering letters of recommendations from professors who care about you, and have a good experience. One of the big benefits is that Pomona isn't as small as other LACs are; you could take CS courses at Harvey Mudd, philosophy courses at CMC or Scripps, linguistics and cog sci courses at Pitzer, etc.

Johns Hopkins is a great school, but more so for graduate/professional schools than undergrad. Nothing wrong with picking them, but I do think Pomona is a notch ahead. [/quote]

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