Why is Pomona discussed so much in this forum? It’s a tiny school that admits less than a dozen kids from DMV every year.

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Anonymous wrote:They're probably about equally good schools all things considered, but Pomona is the best college in Claremont, whereas Tufts is possibly at the bottom of the top 5 in Boston, depending on how you rank things. You're going to have more local bragging rights and a better experience overall at Pomona.

More local bragging rights in Claremont CA. I think that is one criteria no one cares about.

More importantly, very few people on the East coast outside of academia are familiar with Pomona or any of the Claremont schools.

If you're going into a bio major, you will be going into graduate work in Biology.

Not necessarily, op said med school on the table. Opportunities for medical research in Boston are not matched by Claremont schools.

If med school is on the table, I'd lean even closer to Pomona: https://magazine.pomona.edu/2024/spring/birds-of-a-feather-at-harvard-med/

Based on 6 kids from 2018 that was apparently so aberrant it was worthy of an article? Ok then hard to beat that type of thinking.

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Anonymous wrote:They're probably about equally good schools all things considered, but Pomona is the best college in Claremont, whereas Tufts is possibly at the bottom of the top 5 in Boston, depending on how you rank things. You're going to have more local bragging rights and a better experience overall at Pomona.

More local bragging rights in Claremont CA. I think that is one criteria no one cares about.

More importantly, very few people on the East coast outside of academia are familiar with Pomona or any of the Claremont schools.

If you're going into a bio major, you will be going into graduate work in Biology.

Not necessarily, op said med school on the table. Opportunities for medical research in Boston are not matched by Claremont schools.

If med school is on the table, I'd lean even closer to Pomona: https://magazine.pomona.edu/2024/spring/birds-of-a-feather-at-harvard-med/

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Anonymous wrote:They're probably about equally good schools all things considered, but Pomona is the best college in Claremont, whereas Tufts is possibly at the bottom of the top 5 in Boston, depending on how you rank things. You're going to have more local bragging rights and a better experience overall at Pomona.

More local bragging rights in Claremont CA. I think that is one criteria no one cares about.

More importantly, very few people on the East coast outside of academia are familiar with Pomona or any of the Claremont schools.

If you're going into a bio major, you will be going into graduate work in Biology.

Not necessarily, op said med school on the table. Opportunities for medical research in Boston are not matched by Claremont schools.

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Anonymous wrote:They're probably about equally good schools all things considered, but Pomona is the best college in Claremont, whereas Tufts is possibly at the bottom of the top 5 in Boston, depending on how you rank things. You're going to have more local bragging rights and a better experience overall at Pomona.

More local bragging rights in Claremont CA. I think that is one criteria no one cares about.

More importantly, very few people on the East coast outside of academia are familiar with Pomona or any of the Claremont schools.

I don't see either as household slam-dunk names, and I grew up in Boston. Though, locals knowing your college isn't exactly a great measure of prestige. In Chicago, you'll get blank stares about both, though employers will recognize both of them.

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Anonymous wrote:They're probably about equally good schools all things considered, but Pomona is the best college in Claremont, whereas Tufts is possibly at the bottom of the top 5 in Boston, depending on how you rank things. You're going to have more local bragging rights and a better experience overall at Pomona.

More local bragging rights in Claremont CA. I think that is one criteria no one cares about.

More importantly, very few people on the East coast outside of academia are familiar with Pomona or any of the Claremont schools.

If you're going into a bio major, you will be going into graduate work in Biology.

+1 Every PhD program knows Pomona. But Tufts of course is solid. Tbh I think just a matter of preference.

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Anonymous wrote:Expect the research opportunities to be greater at Pomona than those at Tufts.

Because of the competition with grad students? Maybe. But Tufts is larger and has a lot of opportunities closer to campus. I loved Pomona (I'd want to go there) but I think OP will need to check into both.

Simply as an example, although a prominent one, Pomona has produced two Apker Award (the nation’s highest honor for undergraduate physics research) recipients in recent years.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/LeRoy_Apker_Award

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Anonymous wrote:They're probably about equally good schools all things considered, but Pomona is the best college in Claremont, whereas Tufts is possibly at the bottom of the top 5 in Boston, depending on how you rank things. You're going to have more local bragging rights and a better experience overall at Pomona.

More local bragging rights in Claremont CA. I think that is one criteria no one cares about.

More importantly, very few people on the East coast outside of academia are familiar with Pomona or any of the Claremont schools.

If you're going into a bio major, you will be going into graduate work in Biology.

I would lean towards Pomona, because the natural sciences and math are its strongest academic programs. The school has a strong track record for fellowships and grad school admissions (https://www.collegetransitions.com/dataverse/top-feeders-phd-programs). Tufts has about 6600 undergraduate students, the 5Cs have about 6k students. The social atmosphere won't be that different, but the opportunities will be.

Anonymous wrote:They're probably about equally good schools all things considered, but Pomona is the best college in Claremont, whereas Tufts is possibly at the bottom of the top 5 in Boston, depending on how you rank things. You're going to have more local bragging rights and a better experience overall at Pomona.

More local bragging rights in Claremont CA. I think that is one criteria no one cares about.

More importantly, very few people on the East coast outside of academia are familiar with Pomona or any of the Claremont schools.

Both of my kids found Tufts campus a little depressing, but Pomona isn’t perfect either. The lack of AC in dorms, wild fires, woke culture, just to list a few.

Wow. Pomona offered us zilch.

Anonymous wrote:Expect the research opportunities to be greater at Pomona than those at Tufts.

Because of the competition with grad students? Maybe. But Tufts is larger and has a lot of opportunities closer to campus. I loved Pomona (I'd want to go there) but I think OP will need to check into both.

Pomona all the way!!! For the people alone.

Expect the research opportunities to be greater at Pomona than those at Tufts.