<p>Trombonist, I applied ED 1 last year, and when I was accepted I happily withdrew all of my applications. All the private schools and UCs got my withdrawel, I think. Even though I withdrew, I was accepted into UOP, and CAL and UCLA and a couple other UCs. I only sent one withdrawel in letter format. A friend of mine sent two withdrawels to each school to make sure and she didn't get any admissions. I don't know what happened with mine, but I understand where you're coming from.</p>
<p>It's perfectly normal to wonder "what if," but much nicer to experience the relief of knowing where you'll be going to college early in the game. We went through a little bit of that in our household, but getting a Pomona sweatshirt for Christmas made it all worthwhile for D. Also, if you're accepted, you don't have to run the risk of receiving any rejection letters!</p>
<p>How would generally describe the student body of Pomona? Nerdy, Geeky, Jock, normal, preppy, etc? I know there will be a littler of each but what would you mostly see?</p>
<p>According to a relative who attended, because Pomona goes to great lengths to have a diverse student population, you'll be likely to see a little of everything much as you would in the general population. I would hazard a guess that, politically speaking, the students might lean more toward liberalism than conservativeness but then the school's in California.</p>
<p>Pomana's student body: bright but unassuming, friendly, involved, social with a little speck of nerdy mixed in, intellectual, talented but humble</p>
<p>inseniarator - in terms of the categories you mentioned, I would say Pomona has all of the above groups in pretty sizeable numbers. I don't think only one of them could really describe the student body even when speaking generally. But before you think Pomona is just going to be a repetition of high school, everyone has a lot of respect for each other and I don't think students put labels on each other the same way people do in high school. Different types of students interact with each other, which I personally think is partially due to the sponsor group program for first-years.</p>
<p>If you want to know what the typical Pomona student is like, I would describe him or her as liberal, friendly, intelligent (although not in an elitist way), considerate, and laid-back. I read in some college guide that a student described us as "cool dorks," which I can kind of see as being pretty accurate.</p>