<p>I don't know if it's that often, congresssenator, but if you want to play on the team they are pretty active. Every once in a while, I'll see a game out in the quad during the afternoon.</p>
<p>ddx, freshmen can request to live with other incoming freshmen but you can't choose to live with upperclassmen your first year. This is because you're put into sponsor groups and upperclassmen aren't (with the exception of sophomore sponsors). If you call the admissions office, you could do an overnight where they will assign you to a random host volunteer. If you really want to stay with a friend, you can just call him/her up and stay with him/her. They "require" you to fill out a guest pass, but usually you can get away without it. If you don't do it through the admissions office, your friend would have to pay a buck for a mattress and would have to flex you in for meals (rather than having free meal passes). You might be able to get around that if you try calling the admissions office and say you'd like to stay but with your friend and then they can arrange all that stuff for you.</p>
<p>Does applying early decision I or II show different "levels" of interests? For example, If I wanted to make my apps stronger by waiting until early D2, would that appear in the eyes of admissions as I am not as interested as ED1 applicants? Thanks.</p>
<p>That's a good point- I think I'd like to get in another SAT before I apply, since I only have 1 and I need to take my SAT II's still, so waiting longer would strengthen my app.</p>
<p>I don't think there's much of a difference between ED1 and ED2. It is still making a very significant commitment. I think it's just how lazy you are and how long you want to procrastinate on your application. =)</p>
<p>The way I've heard admissions people talk about EDII is that they do it to allow people more time to make a pretty big decision. It gives people more time to visit the college, decide which one they really like best, and I guess also for people like you who'd like to strengthen their application.</p>
<p>Personally, I think interest only comes into play when they are trying to figure out the likelihood that you'll come if they accept you. They won't want to admit people who are only using the school as a back-up and will most likely not go if accepted. However, this doesn't really come into play for EDII since you are binded to go.</p>
<p>This may be a bit off topic...but how much does National merit scholar come into play for decision? is it a really big deal for Pomona? I was looking at this site where people post their stats they had for college admissions and most people accepted into pomona had it.</p>
<p>What happens if we get accepted to Pomona ED, but then get accepted to Yale, Harvard, Stanford or Princeton or something and decide we would rather go there? I want to apply to Pomona ED, and I don't think I could get into a place like HYPS, but I have a shot. (well, who does have a good chance?) I want to play it safe, but I don't want to regret it for teh rest of my life. Is it mandatory that you decline all other acceptances if accepted Pomona ED? What will happen?</p>
<p>If Pomona is not your first choice then I would apply ED to one of the others. I don't think ED at Pomona increases your chances that much anyways. I know many, my S included would choice Pomona over HYPS but it is not for everyone. Pick where you truly want to be and do ED there, it is a contract so should not be taken lightly. If Pomona is interested they will take you RD.</p>
<p>It is a requirement that you drop all your other applications if you are accepted to Pomona ED. However, they will not know whether or not you did this, and it is basically an honor system. If you decide to attend another school when you have already been accepted ED at Pomona, I believe Pomona can contact that school and tell them and your acceptance will be withdrawn from both schools. Or that's what I hear. Choose a school and choose wisely. Don't cheat yourself. Good luck!</p>
<p>But you can at least see where you got in-that's part of what I wanted to know. I've heard you can drop the ED committment if you have to switch schools for financial reasons (ie: Pomona doesn't give you a very generous financial aid package and it turns out you just can't afford it, but Northwestern gives you a half scholarship plus financial aid.) Have you guys ever heard of this happening?</p>
<p>jrseekinghelp - the year I was applying to colleges, my high school counselor had some list of the number of national merit finalists at top schools. I remember him being surprised that Pomona didn't really have as many proportionally as other top schools, so maybe it doesn't play much of a role. I really just think it's your actual SAT scores that matter.</p>
<p>soccerfanatic - you can drop an ED commitment for financial reasons, but you're supposed to let them know pretty soon if that's the case because sometimes they can try to give you more money. I don't think you can wait 3.5 months later though (when your other decisions come out) to make that decision. When you get accepted ED early in December, you're supposed to withdraw your other applications. If either school finds out that you didn't, I'm pretty sure that they would withdraw your acceptance, like mchllhcm said.</p>
<p>I think if you have any doubts about where you want to go to school, don't do ED. ED is for those that have a "dream" school. It's too risky to decide what school to do ED for if you have doubts, i'm sure your senior year of high school may change your opinion on what school to go to. Choose wisely.</p>
<p>If we have pending applications (say I did ED 2) do I actually have to withdraw them, or can I just not accept any when I get the replies? Like soccerfanatic, I just kinda want to see where I got in, so I can say "I got accepted into Yale, but I picked a lovely liberal arts college instead" to everybody. Gotta have the bragging rights. :)</p>
<p>I can understand that feeling but it is not fair to those that will get put on waiting lists or rejected for folks to trophy hunt as Bruce Pooch calls it. If you have the stats to get into Pomona or Yale you already have the bragging rights . You don't need someone from admissions to verify that. Also if you get into Pomona I can almost guarantee you would get into one of the Ivy's at least.</p>