Anonymous
05/28/2026 23:54
Subject: What's the difference between Amherst and Pomona?
Anonymous wrote:Pomona: 420 freshman
156 submitted an SAT
39 scored above 1550, or 9%
Amherst: 485 freshman
192 submitted an SAT score
48 scored above 1540, or 9.8%
They look pretty similar.
Where do you get this? just curious.
Anonymous
05/28/2026 23:43
Subject: What's the difference between Amherst and Pomona?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Pomona: 420 freshman
156 submitted an SAT
39 scored above 1550, or 9%
Amherst: 485 freshman
192 submitted an SAT score
48 scored above 1540, or 9.8%
They look pretty similar.
So my DC who comfortably scored 1560 without a tutor may be too high-performing (test score wise anyway) for Pomona and Amherst, and not high-performing enough for schools like Northwest, Brown, Penn, Duke. What schools are in between those?
Don’t get too full of yourself. Those kids would eat your little grinder as a snack.
Anonymous
05/28/2026 23:43
Subject: What's the difference between Amherst and Pomona?
Anonymous wrote:The dorms are among the best within their peer group.Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Also want to concur that I have heard that Amherst is hoarding their endowment and the campus looks dumpy.
We were there a year ago when touring most of the NSECAC's and a few ivies. We thought the campus was beautiful - greenspace and buildings both.
Their facilities are behind peers, beside the science center. They really need to work on capital investments soon.
Amherst has a brand new (and huge) student center opening this fall, with a new cafeteria also.
After years of construction. And that’s not really helping when they have outdated academic facilities.
Some of the academic facilities are a little ugly, but so what? The ones where the facility matter (science) have an excellent building, and all of the buildings are otherwise in good condition.
Math department is in a disgusting outdated building. It is decades behind peers.
Anonymous
05/28/2026 23:42
Subject: What's the difference between Amherst and Pomona?
Anonymous wrote:The dorms are among the best within their peer group.Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Also want to concur that I have heard that Amherst is hoarding their endowment and the campus looks dumpy.
We were there a year ago when touring most of the NSECAC's and a few ivies. We thought the campus was beautiful - greenspace and buildings both.
Their facilities are behind peers, beside the science center. They really need to work on capital investments soon.
Amherst has a brand new (and huge) student center opening this fall, with a new cafeteria also.
After years of construction. And that’s not really helping when they have outdated academic facilities.
Some of the academic facilities are a little ugly, but so what? The ones where the facility matter (science) have an excellent building, and all of the buildings are otherwise in good condition.
I'm sorry what? There are so many bad dorms at Amherst. Most are nothing like Wieland and King,
Anonymous
05/28/2026 23:41
Subject: What's the difference between Amherst and Pomona?
Anonymous wrote:.Anonymous wrote:We really like Pomona, Williams, Bowdoin.
Amherst felt dumpy, sorry to say. And nobody's first choice. Even the athletes - which are now over 40% of kids - seemed to be "this was the most prestigious school I got recruited for" ie more about the name than any passion to be there.
The average person has not heard of Pomona College in LA. They will confuse it with Cal Poly Pomona. The smartest kids that stay back in LA attend UCLA, Cal Tech and maybe Harvey Mudd.
The Mudd booster has arrived.
Anonymous
05/28/2026 23:36
Subject: What's the difference between Amherst and Pomona?
Anonymous wrote:Is Amherst less woke than Pomona?
STFU and back under your rock troll.
Anonymous
05/28/2026 23:26
Subject: What's the difference between Amherst and Pomona?
The dorms are among the best within their peer group.Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Also want to concur that I have heard that Amherst is hoarding their endowment and the campus looks dumpy.
We were there a year ago when touring most of the NSECAC's and a few ivies. We thought the campus was beautiful - greenspace and buildings both.
Their facilities are behind peers, beside the science center. They really need to work on capital investments soon.
Amherst has a brand new (and huge) student center opening this fall, with a new cafeteria also.
After years of construction. And that’s not really helping when they have outdated academic facilities.
Some of the academic facilities are a little ugly, but so what? The ones where the facility matter (science) have an excellent building, and all of the buildings are otherwise in good condition.
Anonymous
05/28/2026 23:24
Subject: What's the difference between Amherst and Pomona?
Amherst is in Amherst.
Pomona is in Claremont.
Pomona is in Claremont.
Anonymous
05/28/2026 20:31
Subject: What's the difference between Amherst and Pomona?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Pomona: 420 freshman
156 submitted an SAT
39 scored above 1550, or 9%
Amherst: 485 freshman
192 submitted an SAT score
48 scored above 1540, or 9.8%
They look pretty similar.
So my DC who comfortably scored 1560 without a tutor may be too high-performing (test score wise anyway) for Pomona and Amherst, and not high-performing enough for schools like Northwest, Brown, Penn, Duke. What schools are in between those?
This is such a strange question. Your kid will just enter with a say better than not worse than some of their peers. It’s not like the 1560 ordains them to cum laude status.
Anonymous
05/28/2026 20:29
Subject: What's the difference between Amherst and Pomona?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Pomona: 420 freshman
156 submitted an SAT
39 scored above 1550, or 9%
Amherst: 485 freshman
192 submitted an SAT score
48 scored above 1540, or 9.8%
They look pretty similar.
So my DC who comfortably scored 1560 without a tutor may be too high-performing (test score wise anyway) for Pomona and Amherst, and not high-performing enough for schools like Northwest, Brown, Penn, Duke. What schools are in between those?
Weird question. As though there aren’t kids with 1600s at schools that are lower-ranked than all the schools mentioned in this thread.
Anonymous
05/28/2026 20:27
Subject: What's the difference between Amherst and Pomona?
Anonymous wrote:Pomona: 420 freshman
156 submitted an SAT
39 scored above 1550, or 9%
Amherst: 485 freshman
192 submitted an SAT score
48 scored above 1540, or 9.8%
They look pretty similar.
So my DC who comfortably scored 1560 without a tutor may be too high-performing (test score wise anyway) for Pomona and Amherst, and not high-performing enough for schools like Northwest, Brown, Penn, Duke. What schools are in between those?
Anonymous
05/28/2026 20:16
Subject: What's the difference between Amherst and Pomona?
Anonymous wrote:Pomona: 420 freshman
156 submitted an SAT
39 scored above 1550, or 9%
Amherst: 485 freshman
192 submitted an SAT score
48 scored above 1540, or 9.8%
They look pretty similar.
And when you factor for the difference in size, it’s neatly identical the # of students scoring above the 1540/1550
Anonymous
05/28/2026 19:32
Subject: What's the difference between Amherst and Pomona?
Pomona: 420 freshman
156 submitted an SAT
39 scored above 1550, or 9%
Amherst: 485 freshman
192 submitted an SAT score
48 scored above 1540, or 9.8%
They look pretty similar.
156 submitted an SAT
39 scored above 1550, or 9%
Amherst: 485 freshman
192 submitted an SAT score
48 scored above 1540, or 9.8%
They look pretty similar.
Anonymous
05/28/2026 19:19
Subject: What's the difference between Amherst and Pomona?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Also want to concur that I have heard that Amherst is hoarding their endowment and the campus looks dumpy.
We were there a year ago when touring most of the NSECAC's and a few ivies. We thought the campus was beautiful - greenspace and buildings both.
Their facilities are behind peers, beside the science center. They really need to work on capital investments soon.
Amherst has a brand new (and huge) student center opening this fall, with a new cafeteria also.
After years of construction. And that’s not really helping when they have outdated academic facilities.
Anonymous
05/28/2026 18:23
Subject: What's the difference between Amherst and Pomona?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Also want to concur that I have heard that Amherst is hoarding their endowment and the campus looks dumpy.
We were there a year ago when touring most of the NSECAC's and a few ivies. We thought the campus was beautiful - greenspace and buildings both.
Their facilities are behind peers, beside the science center. They really need to work on capital investments soon.
Amherst has a brand new (and huge) student center opening this fall, with a new cafeteria also.