Anonymous wrote:So I'm curious about whatever happened to the kid who got into Pomona off the waitlist and was also WL at Cornell. Where did the student wind up going?

Anonymous wrote:CMC grad, so while I find most Pomona grads insufferable, I can comment on the "everyone who matters knows it" thing vs. other larger schools, which I have absolutely found to be true. People in a position to hire grads are very familiar with these schools and their quality.

Further, I've found that schools or this size create a deeper network you can call on for life... If I reach out to someone who went to CMC (or frankly any of the 5Cs) on linkedin, I have basically a 100% response rate. There's a built in connection there to other folks who briefly lived in Claremont. I assume the same thing happens in other small schools, but what's cool about the claremont colleges is that the alumni network between all of them is pretty huge and diverse.

My husband went to UVA and "oh I went to UVA too" does not create nearly the same personal connections.