<p>Flippy the colleges will understand but only a little.
Every competitive high school still has some students performing between 4.0 and 3.75 gpa. Those will have a better chance.</p>
<p>"Flippy the colleges will understand but only a little.
Every competitive high school still has some students performing between 4.0 and 3.75 gpa. Those will have a better chance."</p>
<p>I think this person is being brutal. I think you have a fine chance - better than all these negative responses are saying. I think people are just bitter this time of year because of rejections and such. It's definitely about luck, but a greater number of students will get in from the more competitive high schools, even those without perfect (or even near-perfect GPAs).</p>
<p>Look at your school's record w/ these two schools. If it's really that prestigious, you really shouldn't be asking random people and should know.</p>
<p>"Pomona and Stanford are really in the same region in terms of selectivity. "</p>
<p>I definitely think Stanford is more selective than Pomona. Numbers alone can tell you that. </p>
<p>Plus, I know S doesn't care about demonstrated interest. The biggest thing you can do there is write quirky, risky, and awesome essays.</p>
<p>Yeah ive actually seen a list of application results to these two schools from the school that I go to, and for example for Pomona, this is what it was like. Two people made it in rd (i think) both had around 3.7 gpas (3.69 and 3.72), which is basically what i have, and their SAT scores were worse by quite a bit. I think from looking at this I have a pretty good chance</p>
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I definitely think Stanford is more selective than Pomona. Numbers alone can tell you that.
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Stanford is more selective but they are in about the same range. It's 11% vs 16% this year. That's really not a huge difference when you get down to it. About 3 out of 20 kids get into Pomona and about 2 out of 20 get into Stanford. The odds arent great but I think that the original poster has what it takes to get into either one.</p>
<p>Depends on your range. You're obviously picking the higher one. But it stretches both ways. Can't you put pomona with berkeley too, then? I mean pomona is 16% and berkeley is only around 23%. And isn't UCLA like 21%? It's about the same discrepancy by your logic. And doesn't that mean Pomona is also the same range as Harvard? I mean Harvard is 10%. </p>
<p>Wow, I never knew Pomona was as selective as both Berkeley and Harvard. Geez, I really need to take stat over again.</p>
<p>yeah, OP I think you have a good shot at Pomona then.</p>