<p>Today, when I was discussing with my Paleontology professor which schools I had applied to for transfer, his ears perked at the name Pomona. He noted it was a very good school, but especially hard to get into if you don't live in California.</p>
<p>Is this a mere rumor to be ignored? </p>
<p>Is their support to his claim? </p>
<p>I'm not merely asking about selectivity (there's plenty of discussion of that already). I want to know specifically if location hurts your chances for acceptance DRAMATICALLY (as in more then other schools)</p>
<p>Not sure about for transfers, but for freshman applicants, Pomona is much harder to get into if you DO live in CA (especially SoCal) as they are interested in building a geographically diverse class and a there are so many applicants from CA. Maybe he was thinking Cal-poly Pomona?</p>
<p>Geo is correct. Around 30 percent of the next years admitted potential freshman are from California. Since they only admitted around 11 percent of last year’s transfer applicants as compared to, I think, around 16 percent of freshman applicants, transfers from anywhere have a tough time. This year they only admitted 14.7 percent of freshman applicants, had to get the digits 4 and 7 in the figure somewhere, image the transfer admission rate will only go lower.</p>
<p>The number of admissions applications also went up 10 percent from last year.</p>
<p>Thanks for all you’re input. I realize my prospects for transfer aren’t that great 
but right now it’s out of my hands. Nothing to do but sit nervously awaiting the notification date (which is unfortunately the same day as AA commencement)</p>