I couldn’t make a comparison because I’ve not visited Pomona. My impression is that students at both colleges participate outdoorsy activities. Because of its mountain village location access to the outdoors at Williams may be more spontaneous, but I wouldn’t want to get into an argument over which student body appreciates nature more.
Because approximately 40% of Williams students graduate with double majors, it’s difficult to calculate percentages by class size. By general academic category, majors are approximately 43% social sciences (economics, history, psychology), 35% math and science, 22% languages and humanities (art, literature, music).
As I said, MIT does offer humanities courses, the difference is not in availability but in the overarching focus of the student body.
Yeah I think researching a ton of different schools helped me narrow it down. Things I didn’t like at Middlebury was the vandalism (I know it happens at all schools but still), the lack of diversity (in comparison to other schools), and the heavy drinking factor.
While the vandalism and drinking are similar to other LACs, the diversity is indeed an issue.
However, a warning regarding the diversity of many other “elite” colleges. Only Pomona College on your list of favorites actually has any appreciable number of URMs in its student body.
Probably true, @arcadia! However, drinking goes on in colleges in cities as well. Not sure there is really a distinction to be made except perhaps that some state universities might have even more drinking.
