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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DC is down to these two options.
Prospective Math major, loves hiking and exploring places. Dc really wants an environment where there’s a good math community and opportunities (read: interesting math specialties or courses or research opportunities). DC loves small school environment and smaller classes. He loved the tutorial system/WEPO when he toured Williams but found the students kind of cold. We’ve yet to visit Pomona, but he really likes what he’s seen so far.

Anyone with experience with both and how you’d go about choosing?[/quote]

If you can get into either of these schools, you're golden. The experience at both would be outstanding and, for academics, more similar than different, so I would focus on the differences, primarily regarding location and weather. You'll get exceptional academics, a bright and curious human body, and incredible facilities and opportunities at either one, so look at the differences in lifestyle. Do you like changing seasons, fall colors, and cold? Or dry heat, outdoor swimming, and beaches within a 1.5-hour drive? Do you want a quiet rural or a busy suburban environment? Do you want a small campus with 2,200 students or to be part of the ~8,000 students at the seven Claremont Colleges? Do you like oaks and maples or palm trees and scraggly pines? Would you be bothered by the isolation of living in a small town or by the SoCal traffic?

Williams and Pomona are arguably the two best LACs in the nation, and you can't go wrong with either, so I would focus on the things that differentiate the two. [/quote]

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