Anonymous
04/18/2026 04:39
Subject: Pomona Housing Crisis: Money, Internships traded for dorms
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:During room draw this past week for fall 2026 housing, students at Pomona College have reported trading and bidding for housing selection times — including thousand-dollar bids and internship offers.
The essay is here: https://tsl.news/pomona-students-report-buying-and-trading-room-draw-times-due-to-housing-crisis/
What a horrible experience and source of stress!
Side note: we visited the 5Cs in March (to visit after being admitted) and it was 97 degrees and it felt so, so hot. I didn't realize SoCal got that hot so early. Most dorms don't have AC and the ones in the 5Cs that just added room AC units (e.g., CMC), the students told us they didn't work well.
At night it drops to 60°. Understand that this has been true for decades. You think people on The west coast aren’t smart enough for AC?
I grew up in a Los Angeles suburb and now moved back to California but this time on the coast. Only poor people in that area don't have air conditioning because it gets unbearably hot even as early as March. On March 17th in Pomona the high was 96° and the low was 64°. At 5 pm it was 91 degrees. I would be furious paying that much money.
Are fans not allowed in the school?
Anonymous
04/18/2026 04:21
Subject: Pomona Housing Crisis: Money, Internships traded for dorms
It’s true there is a temporary crunch on housing while the school replaces a building. It’s also true there is a Pomona troll who posts every bit of bad news they can find.
Anonymous
04/18/2026 03:44
Subject: Pomona Housing Crisis: Money, Internships traded for dorms
Dd is there and it was hot but has also been in the 60s and 70s lately. It varies in winter/ spring. Dd works at their farm. Stfu Pomona troll.
Anonymous
04/18/2026 03:22
Subject: Pomona Housing Crisis: Money, Internships traded for dorms
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:During room draw this past week for fall 2026 housing, students at Pomona College have reported trading and bidding for housing selection times — including thousand-dollar bids and internship offers.
The essay is here: https://tsl.news/pomona-students-report-buying-and-trading-room-draw-times-due-to-housing-crisis/
What a horrible experience and source of stress!
Side note: we visited the 5Cs in March (to visit after being admitted) and it was 97 degrees and it felt so, so hot. I didn't realize SoCal got that hot so early. Most dorms don't have AC and the ones in the 5Cs that just added room AC units (e.g., CMC), the students told us they didn't work well.
At night it drops to 60°. Understand that this has been true for decades. You think people on The west coast aren’t smart enough for AC?
If I'm paying that much, my kid should be able to use the AC whenever they want.
And that level of entitlement is why your kid shouldn’t go to a top LAC. Even at Harvard you aren’t guaranteed AC. Yale turns the AC off of the residential college with AC.
Anonymous
04/18/2026 01:20
Subject: Pomona Housing Crisis: Money, Internships traded for dorms
Sounds stressful.
Anonymous
04/18/2026 00:59
Subject: Pomona Housing Crisis: Money, Internships traded for dorms
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:During room draw this past week for fall 2026 housing, students at Pomona College have reported trading and bidding for housing selection times — including thousand-dollar bids and internship offers.
The essay is here: https://tsl.news/pomona-students-report-buying-and-trading-room-draw-times-due-to-housing-crisis/
What a horrible experience and source of stress!
Side note: we visited the 5Cs in March (to visit after being admitted) and it was 97 degrees and it felt so, so hot. I didn't realize SoCal got that hot so early. Most dorms don't have AC and the ones in the 5Cs that just added room AC units (e.g., CMC), the students told us they didn't work well.
At night it drops to 60°. Understand that this has been true for decades. You think people on The west coast aren’t smart enough for AC?
If I'm paying that much, my kid should be able to use the AC whenever they want.
Anonymous
04/18/2026 00:28
Subject: Pomona Housing Crisis: Money, Internships traded for dorms
What nonsense for a $100K COA college that has a large endowment per student. How ridiculous.
Anonymous
04/18/2026 00:25
Subject: Pomona Housing Crisis: Money, Internships traded for dorms
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:During room draw this past week for fall 2026 housing, students at Pomona College have reported trading and bidding for housing selection times — including thousand-dollar bids and internship offers.
The essay is here: https://tsl.news/pomona-students-report-buying-and-trading-room-draw-times-due-to-housing-crisis/
What a horrible experience and source of stress!
Side note: we visited the 5Cs in March (to visit after being admitted) and it was 97 degrees and it felt so, so hot. I didn't realize SoCal got that hot so early. Most dorms don't have AC and the ones in the 5Cs that just added room AC units (e.g., CMC), the students told us they didn't work well.
It doesn’t normally get in the 90s in March in SoCal. It was record breaking heat. But with global warming, it may become more common.
Anonymous
04/18/2026 00:17
Subject: Pomona Housing Crisis: Money, Internships traded for dorms
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:During room draw this past week for fall 2026 housing, students at Pomona College have reported trading and bidding for housing selection times — including thousand-dollar bids and internship offers.
The essay is here: https://tsl.news/pomona-students-report-buying-and-trading-room-draw-times-due-to-housing-crisis/
What a horrible experience and source of stress!
Side note: we visited the 5Cs in March (to visit after being admitted) and it was 97 degrees and it felt so, so hot. I didn't realize SoCal got that hot so early. Most dorms don't have AC and the ones in the 5Cs that just added room AC units (e.g., CMC), the students told us they didn't work well.
At night it drops to 60°. Understand that this has been true for decades. You think people on The west coast aren’t smart enough for AC?
I grew up in a Los Angeles suburb and now moved back to California but this time on the coast. Only poor people in that area don't have air conditioning because it gets unbearably hot even as early as March. On March 17th in Pomona the high was 96° and the low was 64°. At 5 pm it was 91 degrees. I would be furious paying that much money.
Anonymous
04/17/2026 23:00
Subject: Pomona Housing Crisis: Money, Internships traded for dorms
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:During room draw this past week for fall 2026 housing, students at Pomona College have reported trading and bidding for housing selection times — including thousand-dollar bids and internship offers.
The essay is here: https://tsl.news/pomona-students-report-buying-and-trading-room-draw-times-due-to-housing-crisis/
oh, wow ... reminds me of Soviet Union's barter economy in the 1980s
Kids sell class slots at UCLA and UCB.
yeah but those are bargain, massive, public schools with much lower expectation's When you're paying $95k are different. Service at Maison Cheryl should be different than McDonald's.
Thanks for the tip, I booked a reservation at Maison Cheryl. Hope it is worth the price!
Anonymous
04/17/2026 22:55
Subject: Pomona Housing Crisis: Money, Internships traded for dorms
I am glad some posted this. This sounds really bad and kids need to understand that housing will suck there for the next two years.
Anonymous
04/17/2026 22:50
Subject: Pomona Housing Crisis: Money, Internships traded for dorms
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:During room draw this past week for fall 2026 housing, students at Pomona College have reported trading and bidding for housing selection times — including thousand-dollar bids and internship offers.
The essay is here: https://tsl.news/pomona-students-report-buying-and-trading-room-draw-times-due-to-housing-crisis/
oh, wow ... reminds me of Soviet Union's barter economy in the 1980s
Kids sell class slots at UCLA and UCB.
yeah but those are bargain, massive, public schools with much lower expectation's When you're paying $95k are different. Service at Maison Cheryl should be different than McDonald's.
Anonymous
04/17/2026 22:39
Subject: Pomona Housing Crisis: Money, Internships traded for dorms
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:During room draw this past week for fall 2026 housing, students at Pomona College have reported trading and bidding for housing selection times — including thousand-dollar bids and internship offers.
The essay is here: https://tsl.news/pomona-students-report-buying-and-trading-room-draw-times-due-to-housing-crisis/
oh, wow ... reminds me of Soviet Union's barter economy in the 1980s
Kids sell class slots at UCLA and UCB.
Anonymous
04/17/2026 22:13
Subject: Pomona Housing Crisis: Money, Internships traded for dorms
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:okay there is definitely a troll here on the pomona waitlist. every week theres a new post trying to paint pomona specifically in a bad light
you think the troll wrote and submitted a story to the 5C student newspaper?
yeah, turns out the author is a 20-year old Rumanian shoplifter trying to get readmitted to pomona. Google it
What nonsense
Anonymous
04/17/2026 22:07
Subject: Pomona Housing Crisis: Money, Internships traded for dorms
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:okay there is definitely a troll here on the pomona waitlist. every week theres a new post trying to paint pomona specifically in a bad light
you think the troll wrote and submitted a story to the 5C student newspaper?
yeah, turns out the author is a 20-year old Rumanian shoplifter trying to get readmitted to pomona. Google it