Chances at Pomona?

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>I've been looking at Pomona and love it- I've always loved SoCal, and I like the idea that it's competitive and has small class sizes.
Crowded school in a farming town- I live on a tree farm.
Hardest clasload possible- 3 APs and an honors class junior year, 4 APs this year.
GPA: 3.94
Unweighted Rank: 23/750
Schedule:
9th
Honors English A A
Honors Science A A
Freshman Jazz Band A A
Freshman Concert band A A
Western History A A
Competitive Sports A A
Trigonometry A-, B</p>

<p>10th
Honors English A A
Chemistry A A
PE & Health A A
Precalculus A A
Advanced Jazz Band A A
Wind Ensemble A A
French 1 & 2 A A</p>

<p>11th
Honors English A A
AP US History A A
AP Chemistry A A
AP Calculus A A
Wind Ensemble A A
French 3 & 4 A A
Advanced Jazz Band A A
Wind Ensemble A A</p>

<p>12th (Grades weren't on my application though)
AP English A
Government/Central Intelligence A
AP Stats A
AP Physics A
French 5 & 6 A
Wind Ensemble A
Advanced Jazz Band A</p>

<p>Music: (trombone)
-Jazz band
-Wind ensemble
-Pep band
-Marching band
-Jazz camp and marching band camp during the summer.
-Most outstanding musician in the jazz band- 9th grade
-Outstanding soloist awards at festivals
-Community theater musicals every year in high school
-All-State Band
-Honor Band in 9th</p>

<p>Athletics
-Soccer on a local league 9,10,11,12
-Track and field, 3 year letter so far, placed 1st an invitational 10th grade, 3rd in league and 5th in districts last year
-Skiing- won 2nd in a race held by my skii school 9th </p>

<p>Key Club- Co-prez
Environmental Club- co-prez<br>
French Club
Knowledge Bowl Prez
State competitor for "future problem solving"</p>

<p>Part of a "big-sister" sort of organization, volunteered in my "brother's" classroom twice a week, over 150 hours there </p>

<p>75+ hours of other random community service </p>

<p>Worked on a project in Alaska last summer, living outside for two weeks and working to restore trails and native plants, 7-8 hours a day. (Student Conservation Association)</p>

<p>Student of the quarter
"Outstanding Junior" award from the masons
National Merit Commended
And all of those who's who and national honor roll things that are a joke to adcoms</p>

<p>What do you guys think? I don't really have a good idea about how hard it is to get into Pomona yet- it's one of the top LAC's, but it's not really a household name like Cornell or Princeton.</p>

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<p>Oh hehe and I'm talking about Pomona College not Cal Poly Pomona</p>

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<p>Key info needed: SAT I & II scores, AP scores.</p>

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<p>Oh right- AP's: Calc-5 History-4 Chemistry-4, so AP Scholar, and 720V 780M SAT</p>

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<p>You should have no problem getting in.</p>

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<p>I think you're in at both Cal Poly and Pomona :)</p>

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<p>Thanks guys, that's really reassuring. I'd never really heard of Pomona before I started researching colleges, so I didn't think it was very competitive until I saw the Princeton Review and USNews rankings, then I started getting nervous. But now I feel more confident about it again.</p>

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<p>It's a great school and you're a great student. Seems like a match. Pomona has EXCELLENT grad school placement btw.</p>

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<p>It's the 13th "most selective" according to PrincetonReview, which is higher than Dartmouth. They also have a 20% or so admission rate. You guys say it's a match, so does that mean I have higher than say a 60% chance of getting in, or is it pretty random and hard to predict, like at upper ivies?</p>

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<p>Do you have contact with a coach? That would help a lot. You have great stats for Pomona but last year they had a lower then 20% acceptance rate and many kids with 1500's weren't accepted. There is no sure thing with Pomona so write a great essay, show interest and get great recommendations. They love leaders and students with a passion for learning, students that challenge themselves. Make sure you don't miss the interview deadline, that is important as well.Best of luck, it is an amazing school.</p>

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<p>hate Freshman year, i got B's too</p>

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<p>Yeah, and not only that, but they have a class from 8th grade on my transcript too, the only one I got a B in that year, and they say they can't take it off once it's been put on, and it's lowered my GPA.</p>

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<p>Pomona will recalculate your GPA based on their own formula and will not even look at 8th grade! My S's recalculated was 3.98. He had a few B's in earlier FR, Sophomore grade. They took off all but core and basic subjects did not count PE etc. You will be fine. They look at how much you challenged yourself. Lots of kids with perfect GPA's did not get in if they took easy non challenging classes and those with much less then perfect got in because they took a challenging caseload.</p>