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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Location isn't that great either. Very far from the beach and downtown LA, very smoggy.

It's one of those cases where "it's great because everyone thinks it's great".[/quote]

Basically the beaches are at one end of LA county and the school is at the other. DD really liked the campus - as well as Pitzer - but the drive from our hotel in Santa Monica to the Claremont campuses, then back in one hot afternoon was not lost on her. [/quote]

Yeah, it makes sense that the beaches are in part of LA county that’s … by … the … ocean.[/quote]

LA is one of the US' largest counties and is roughly 800 square miles larger than a combined Delaware and Rhode Island. Most 17 and 18 year olds don't know that.[b] They hear LA, they think of Hollywood, the beaches, so yeah, they are not imagining driving 50 miles from one end of the county to the other. [/b]

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Why does everyone assume this is why a student wants to go to Pomona OR that students/families who consider Pomona do not know where it is located?  Perhaps your view if LA is beaches and Hollywood...but that doesn't mean everyone else's does.

Our child is interested in Pomona and the only way LA is remotely involved is that it makes it close enough to transportation so that getting there from accoss the country is not a nightmare.  They have no interest in the beach or Hollywood. They like the idea of nice weather and are far more interested in exploring internal land features of CA via trips while they are there (Joshua Tree/Yosemite/Redwoods/Desert). They like the school because of the small size of the college with access to 7000 kids over multiple schools. They like a place where kids live on campus 4 years as a community.[/quote]

Please. DC lives on the East coast and had never been to California, but is a creature of social media. So yeah, thoughts of the beach popped when they first heard that Pomona, which was suggested to them by their college counselor, is in LA. That doesn't seem so far-fetched.

DC ultimately decided they wanted a school that was not that far from home as well as easily accessible to the outdoors - right outside their dorm door. They are now at a top NESCAC. [/quote]

So you are saying that in addition to your child's initial misconceptions, that you would not have gone out to Pomona to visit and see for yourself what it really is? This is what people are constantly implying is true for everyone.  That's fine if that's the case for your child (who seems like they may have never applied? or maybe applied but it wasn't high on their list?).  But it is NOT the case for most kids that genuinely choose Pomona. Our child has been to CA enough for family to know exactly what it is - and never had beaches in mind.[/quote]

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