Pomona is very strong in sciences and humanities

Pomona is very strong in sciences and humanities.
Jennifer Anne Doudna, 2020 Nobel Prize winner in Chemistry, is one of its alumni and so was Dr. Roger Revelle, the famed UCSD founder who pioneered research on global warming and mentored Al Gore on the issue (Revelle College at UCSD was named after him).
早期的中国经济学家陈翰笙graduated from Pomona 100 years ago.
https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%99%88%E7%BF%B0%E7%AC%99

I heard that Pomona's pre-law and pre-med graduates have a higher success rate in getting into law schools and medical schools than Stanford's.
However, Pomona is relatively weak in engineering (which I believe is by design and not due to lack of resources). In fact, it does not have an engineering program of its own unless you consider its Computer Science programm (which is very good) as one. It does have a 3-2 engineering program with Caltech and WUSTL, in which the student spends 3 years in Pomona and 2 years in Caltech or WUSTL. It has a feel of an elite East Coast liberal arts college.

Pomona is among the top 10 richest colleges in the US in terms of endowment dollars per student:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_colleges_and_universities_in_the_United_States_by_endowment

So it is more generous in terms of financial aid than Harvey Mudd, which my kid attends. Both Pomona and Harvey Mudd practice need-blind admission. But neither one offers merit-based scholarships. Pomona, Harvey Mudd, and Claremont Mekenna students often are accepted to top-notch grad programs. For example, about 3 years ago Harvey Mudd's graduating class size was 196, 48 of which went to grad schools (6 to Stanford and 4 to MIT).

Overall, Pomona students are happier than Mudd students due to better work-life balance. On the average, a Mudd student takes 7 classes per semester while a Pomona student does 5. My kid envies some of her Pomona friends for not having classes on Friday. It is not uncommon for Mudd students to take mid-terms at 8:00 o'clock Sunday night.

The Claremont Colleges (Claremont McKenna, Harvey Mudd, Pitzer, Pomona, and Scripps) are well-known among the educated elites and graduate school admissions officers (East Coast schools included) but not to the average folks in the US.

IMHO, Pomona is as good as Stanford unless student is interested in Engineering, Computer Science, or entrepreneurship .

 

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• 严重同意! -Mike121212- ♂ (0 bytes) () 10/11/2020 postreply 17:45:09