Early Decision 2 Offical Decision Thread

Colleges and Universities A-Z Pomona College
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<p>Hi. Though we should start this thread today! </p>

<p>I got deferred. So hopefully the regular decision pool will be kind to me!</p>

<p>GPA: 3.78UW 4.64W
(straight As 1st semester senior year)
ACT: 34
Class Rigor: All honors and AP classes. Very competitive public school.</p>

<p>ECs:
Basketball: (2yr varsity, captain)
Latin Club: 4yr. Historian, Treasurer, Secretary
Dance: Indian Classical dance 12yr. Two hour solo performance coming up in April!
Volunteering with kids: 150hrs total
Science Research: two yrs. work in a lab and get paid for it. </p>

<p>Essays and Recs:
Teacher: Pretty good i think. Didnt read them...
Counselor: He likes me a lot so I'm pretty sure it was a good letter.
Personal Statement: Talked about dance. from hating it to liking it. Unique I thought.
Supplement: A fun day in a Slovakian castle where we had no idea what everyone was saying. </p>

<p>Sent an athletic supplement. Coach said she would support my application. </p>

<p>Location: An hour away from Pomona in SoCal. </p>

<p>Still my first choice. Still hoping!</p>

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<p>Wow, you seem like a great candidate! What sport did the coach say she would support you in? Were you officially “tagged” or just supported. I am surprised you heard today—other postings indicated that admissions was not sending anything out until Monday (really Tuesday since Monday is a holiday). I think you still have a great chance of getting in—you sound like a very interesting person to me!</p>

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<p>I play basketball. And the coach said that I was on her list and she was hoping I get in! Good luck to your son on his decisions!</p>

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<p>Sorry to be blunt, but why the hell did you get deferred?</p>

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<p>wow. if you didn’t get in… i definitely will not.</p>

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<p>Deferred</p>

<p>User Name: dolphindolphin
Gender: M
Location: NY
College Class Year: 2014
High School: Public
High School Type: sends many grads to top schools</p>

<p>Academics:</p>

<p>GPA - Unweighted: 3.70
GPA - Weighted: 4.10
Class Rank: top 10%
Class Size: 220</p>

<p>Scores:</p>

<p>ACT: 33</p>

<p>Extracurriculars:</p>

<p>Significant Extracurriculars: Pres: outing club, student gov
vp: food bank club
treasurer, FBLA
Athletic Status - list sport and your level: VJ tennis 9-11
v tennis 12
badminton tournament winner 11
Volunteer/Service Work: food bank
Honors and Awards: cum laude
ntl spanish honors society
mu alpha theta
high honor roll 9-12
College Summer programs: science research in miami</p>

<p>Colleges of Interest:</p>

<p>College: Bates College, Choice #: 0, ED/EA: No, Athlete: No, Legacy: No, Status: Will Apply
College: Colgate University, Choice #: 0, ED/EA: No, Athlete: No, Legacy: No, Status: Will Apply
College: Emory University, Choice #: 0, ED/EA: No, Athlete: No, Legacy: No, Status: Will Apply
College: Middlebury College, Choice #: 0, ED/EA: No, Athlete: No, Legacy: No, Status: Will Apply
College: Vanderbilt University, Choice #: 0, ED/EA: No, Athlete: No, Legacy: No, Status: Will Apply
College: Bowdoin College, Choice #: 1, ED/EA: Yes, Athlete: No, Legacy: No, Status: Deferred
College: Pomona College, Choice #: 2, ED/EA: Yes, Athlete: No, Legacy: No, Status: Deferred</p>

<p>Desired College Characteristics:</p>

<p>Location type: Small City, Rural
Size: Small (Under 2,500), Medium Small (2,500 - 5,000)</p>

<p>Area: East Coast, West Coast, Southeast
Importance of cost: Secondary</p>

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<p>how did you find out? was it through regular mail? fedex? ups? this isn’t good if i haven’t heard yet :(</p>

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<p>Dang dolphin that sucks. Two deferrals. I’m hoping you get into either one!</p>

<p>They send acceptance packages through priority mail and deferrals and rejections in business sized envelopes through regular mail. If you are farther away from Pomona it will take longer to get to you.</p>

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<p>My S got his acceptance today. I was getting nervous reading about the athlete who was deferred as my S is an athlete and we were pretty confident that it was going to help. I would have to say that the coach at Pomona had the most integrity of any of the other coaches we encountered. He was recruited my Princeton, Harvard, Brown, Occidental, UCSD and applied early to Brown, where he was deferred. We were all completely devastated as we had been led to believe that he was very likely to get in. The whole process left such a bad taste in our mouths that we started not to trust the process at all. People think being an athlete makes it easier, but actually it can just confuse the process because there are more factors to juggle and more pressure. It was complete serendipity that he ended up at Pomona because he had discounted it early on in favor of a brand name school. But a series of unbelievable incidents led up to this point and he fell in love with the school on his recruiting trip. It really makes me believe that everything works out for a reason. We would never be in this happy place if Brown hadn’t rejected him. I have lots of opinions on the recruiting process if anyone wants to hear any, let me know!</p>

<p>Stats:</p>

<p>GPA unweighted 3.9 (ish maybe 3.98?)
weighted 4.4</p>

<p>Top 4% of class; public school which sends some kids to elite schools; 330 kids in class.</p>

<p>All 5’s on AP’s
AP Scholar</p>

<p>SAT 2310
CR 790
Math 760
Writing 760</p>

<p>SAT II
Literature 780
Physics 770
US History 770</p>

<p>Sports: Water Polo (2 years varsity and team captain this year)-extremely competitive and nationally recognized teams.
Swimming (varsity 4 years and team captain this year)</p>

<p>Various awards and recognitions for being a scholar athlete sport specific, national and school.</p>

<p>National Merit Finalist
Buck Scholarship Finalist</p>

<p>2 paid coaching jobs
Volunteers for specials olympics as a swim coach
Volunteers at a surfing camp for autisitc kids.</p>

<p>Lots on international travel.</p>

<p>Wrote personal statement on surfing. Wrote supplement on an annual activity he does with the kids he coaches in the summer and how it allows him to be a kid again.</p>

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<p>Whoops forgot to say what other colleges he applied to(mostly water polo schools):</p>

<p>Stanford—pending
Harvard----pending
Princeton–pending
USC-------accepted
Pomona—will attend
UCSB-----accepted early under the ELC program
UCSD----- "’ " " "
Brown-----deferred
Occidental- pending
Boston Coll–pending
Dartmouth --pending
UC Berkeley–pending
UCLA--------pending
Claremont—pending</p>

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<p>@ Calmama
Congrats on your sons’ acceptance!
I was just wondering what state you live in - I’m getting a little nervous; I haven’t received anything from Pomona yet (then again I’m on the East Coast).</p>

<p>Thanks!</p>

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<p>i havent received anything either. but im guessing that is a bad thing because priority mail (which is what acceptance letters are in) usually still delivers on sundays.</p>

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<p>Are you sure they deliver on Sundays? Also, it seems like those that were deferred received their letters first, so I am thinking maybe it is a GOOD thing that you haven’t heard.! If you look back to the thread about ED I, I think people on the east coast got their acceptances a few days later than those on the west coast. We live in Northern California and we got his 2 days after the postmark.</p>

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<p>Priority mail won’t be delivered until Tuesday - fingers crossed for all of you waiting!</p>

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<p>To all of you still waiting for letters - don’t be discouraged. My acceptance letter came two weeks late when I was in the process.</p>

<p>Good luck to all of you waiting and congratulations to those who got in!</p>

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<p>Congrats to your S, Calmama… but remember that the ED is binding at Pomona. All those “pending” are supposed to represent your son’s withdrawal of those applications now.</p>

<p>I know from my S that Pomona takes that ED commitment very seriously and I recall seeing the agreement sent with the enrollment forms and requiring co-signatures from the high school.</p>

<p>Your son will have no regrets.</p>

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<p>I had the same experience with Brown. Your son’s stats look nearly identical to mine, although I submitted ACT/34 no SATs. A-Rod at Pomona is by far the nicest coach out there right now. Authentic, encouraging, and probably liking the fact that he’s getting some very good IVY cast-offs.</p>

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<p>OV- I thought I responded to you but I don’t see the post! The stats profiling format doesn’t allow for entering anything but applied/pending—I was indicating which schools he had also applied to but will be withdrawing from, not that he was literally awaitng their responsed. He is well aware of the binding condition. Beyond the binding school agreement, he has an commitment to the coach.</p>

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<p>As an ED II applicant for the class of '16, I have a question for those who were accepted in the last round of decisions: Did you withdraw your applications from other schools upon being accepted, or did you just wait until they made their decisions to inform the other schools that you had chosen Pomona? This is definatley my 1st choice, I just am curious about how my other apps will go over, having spent a good bit of time on them as well.
Thanks!</p>

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<p>It’s natural to be curious about those other apps, especially after all the time and effort that you put into them. And, as a parent, I would have loved to brag about my D getting into any of the other 7 colleges she applied to (not to mention the $400+ spent on their apps). Nevertheless, the ED agreement you, your parents, and your HS counselor signed didn’t say you’d decline acceptances from other colleges, it specifically said that you’d withdraw your apps. By not withdrawing, you are also taking away spots that other students would have had at those colleges. Look at it this way: by fulfilling your agreement, you not only get to go to your dream college, you might also be giving others the chance to go to theirs!</p>