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| Location: | Claremont, CA |
| Tuition: | $35,625 |
| Room & Board: | $12,220 |
| FT Undergraduates: | 1,563 |
| Admission Difficulty: | Very Hard |
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Just about any Pomona student will tell you that they truly enjoyed their college experience. And it’s not just the free booze that makes Pomona one of the happiest colleges in the country. It helps, but the booze alone couldn’t make everyone so darn genuinely happy, day in and day out. After all, some people don’t even drink, and they seem just as happy as everyone else. It’s not the location either. The classes are good, and the professors are great, and that certainly plays its part, and it’s an open, friendly campus, which is nice. But there is some other factor which makes people like this place so much. There are some people who were dead set on hating it. Why, you might wonder, did they go in the first place? One reason was parental pressure. Another was students, who by the end, had to grudgingly admit that they had enjoyed themselves. They might still claim that they don’t have an affectionate place in their heart for their alma mater, but they can’t deny that the experience was worthwhile. The question is, “Why are Pomona students so unabashedly jolly?” There are only two feasible answers. One, they drug the water here. Unlikely, perhaps, but maybe Pomona is the site of a modern day governmental experiment in mass mind control. Barring that, it must be that people here just really like the people they go to college with. Are Pomona students better people than other selective liberal arts college students? Probably not. However, Pomona puts a great deal of stress on allowing people space to find their own way of doing things, both socially and academically. Sometimes, this is frustrating, sometimes people pine after the lost structure of high school and family life, but in the end, with the amount of freedom students are granted, they end up somewhere they want to be. Now if only everyone could get jobs.
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ateaford05 Pomona '13 French Language and Literature Aug 24, 2010  |
Get a Car! Need a Spot? Find an Upperclassman
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Cars are off-limits to freshmen, but many bring them anyway. All you need to do is find a sophomore or older who's willing to get a parking pass for you. And if you have a car, BRING IT! I expected, accustomed to the ease of public transit in Boston, that I'd have no problems getting in and out of LA. The Metrolink, albeit close by, has horrible hours. And we are disconnected from LA public transit, instead having the Foothill Transit system. Seeking a liberal arts school and an urban location (unfortunately, such a combo is few and far between), I thought I wouldn't mind the 30 mile distance from the city... the quality of public transportation proved me wrong. |
ateaford05 Pomona '13 French Language and Literature Aug 24, 2010 |
Ain't the Greatest Grub
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Off-campus dining is one of the biggest downfalls to campus life in Claremont. Despite the mass presence of students (the Claremont Colleges, duh), it appears no one in the food industry is interested in such a big, easy market. There is no real fast food (a law bans it in the city's limits). The closing of the nearby CVS means getting milk requires a 2.5 trip to Vons, uphill. The Village is populated almost entirely by mid-to-high end restaurants. This isn't the kind of college town where you can get cheap Chinese, pizza slices (not a single pizza joint- only Pizza N such, a sit down eatery), or other wonderfully greasy quick fixes. |
ateaford05 Pomona '13 French Language and Literature Aug 24, 2010 |
Big University Resources With the Little Liberal Arts Classroom
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Facilities are shared among the 5 colleges (and 2 graduate schools) who belong to the Claremont Consortium: Scripps, Harvey Mudd, Claremont McKenna, Pitzer, and Pomona. Activities give you the opportunity to meet people from every school, and there's plenty of room for choosing from the numerous dining halls. The library is comparable in size to one at a larger, research university, and even when it lacks what you need, you have access to the resources at 100's of other universities in California and the Southwest through the online databases, Link+ and InterLibrary Loan (ILL). Athletic facilities, however, are divided; Pomona and Pitzer form athletic teams together, and consequently share facilities and gyms, while Harvey Mudd, Scripps, and CMC form another (rival) camp. |
Princeton University
| Location: |
Princeton, NJ |
| Tuition: | $34,290 |
| Room & Board: | $11,405 |
| Student Body Size: |
4,907 |
| Admission Difficulty: |
Very Hard |
Stanford University
| Location: |
Stanford, CA |
| Tuition: | $36,798 |
| Room & Board: | $11,182 |
| Student Body Size: |
7,875 |
| Admission Difficulty: |
Very Hard |
UCLA
| Location: |
Los Angeles, CA |
| In-State Tuition: | $10,781 |
| Out-of-State Tuition: | $33,660 |
| Student Body Size: |
28,399 |
| Admission Difficulty: |
Very Hard |
Yale University
| Location: |
New Haven, CT |
| Tuition: | $35,300 |
| Room & Board: | $10,700 |
| Student Body Size: |
6,022 |
| Admission Difficulty: |
Very Hard |
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