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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Pomona---but I'm also a major believer in an liberal arts education.

I went to a small liberal arts school and Hopkins for professional grad school and was shocked that some of my classmates from Hopkins undergrad had basically taken only science and math in undergrad.
I had taken 80 hours of literature and history and anthropology and then of top of this---some science and math as part of my major.  [/quote]

Pomona doesn't have a required Core — just distribution requirements.  Hopkins also has distribution requirements.  And, of course, the breadth and depth of its course offerings greatly exceeds that of Pomona.  Both schools offer undergrads a liberal arts education.  [/quote]

Pomona has the Claremont Consortium and the students have access to 2700 undergraduate courses. A quick look at their cognitive science/linguistic offerings shows Pomona has a greater variety of courses than Hopkins, for instance.

[quote]only at DCUM is some obscure lac comparable to one of the world's greatest universities.[/quote]

Obscure LAC? Pomona is the most selective LAC in the nation. I've never seen a ranking where it isn't top 10, and in everywhere it's top 5 or close. Pomona has a lower acceptance rate, higher yield, enrolls a comparable group of students, and ranks higher than Hopkins on just about every undergrad ranking I've seen (which rank both LACs and universities). Really speaks more about you than about them.[/quote]

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