<p>Hmm…that’s odd that so few people have heard so far. I got my acceptance in the mail on Thursday, though I live in WA so I’m fairly close. I wouldn’t be expecting an email if I were you, I haven’t gotten one. Just be on the lookout for a large envelope. Good luck!</p>
<p>did u receive mail or email or both???</p>
<p>If you live in the US, you’ll receive snail mail. If you’re international, you’ll receive e-mail followed by snail mail.</p>
<p>Good luck!</p>
<p>International Applicant, still have not received an email. Anyone else?</p>
<p>DS received his letter last year at this time. Now, as a freshman, he is extremely happy at Pomona – fantastic professors, brilliant and friendly students, a very cohesive sponsor group. The college is definitely exceeding his high expectations – and ours.</p>
<p>Just wanted to wish you all the best of luck as you wait for the mail! We’re rooting for you!</p>
<p>I’m international and I recieved it by post.
I was rejected:</p>
<p>2010 super-score for SAT
29 ACT
3.87 GPA W (we don’t have unweighed GPAs)
Full IB (HL: biology, chem, maths; SL: English A, French B, environmental systems)
ECs:
-Dance(14 years, assistant teacher)
-Piano (10 years)
-JHU CTY (6 years)
- Togo Service Trip
- Free Diving (2 years)
-Yoga (4 years)
-Physics club (3 years) - Maths club (1 year)
-Programming club (1 year) - Serve the City volunteer (3 years) </p>
<p>Job Experience:
- Volunteer at Smithsonian tropical research institute </p>
<p>Essays:
-Common App : Influencial person as Steve Irwin and how that related to me volunteering at a bird hospital and my future goals
-Pomona: the walking down the street one, talked about horses and Belgium </p>
<p>Teacher recs:
- great form what my counsellor told me </p>
<p>Belgium, go to international school of brussels
Dual citizen (american/panamanian)
female </p>
<p>Argh is there any way that I can know why they flat out rejected me?</p>
<p>still no results yet!!!
i’m going to call the admissions office tomorrow…</p>
<p>Applicants= 298
Acceptances= 79
acceptance rate= 26.5% (about the same as last year)
slight increase of apps from last year’s ED1</p>
<p>source:
<a href=“Early Admissions Statistics 2013 - Interactive Feature - NYTimes.com”>Early Admissions Statistics 2013 - Interactive Feature - NYTimes.com;
<p>from the '12-'13 CDS (section C), 734 applied last year (ED1+ED2) with 150 acceptances.
<a href=“http://www.pomona.edu/administration/institutional-research/common-data-set/12-13/C-Admissions.pdf[/url]”>http://www.pomona.edu/administration/institutional-research/common-data-set/12-13/C-Admissions.pdf</a></p>
<p>Assuming similar total numbers this year, about ~430 will apply for ED2, with ~70 acceptances, translating to a ~16% acceptance rate, which is still 4% better than last year’s RD acceptance rate of 12% (calculated by removing ED numbers from the total app numbers on the CDS). Of course, Pomona has historically taken a lower percentage of their class from ED relative to other LACs, so if they made a change, the ED2 rate could turn out to be higher.</p>
<p>Deferred. Also deferred REA from stanford earlier–I find it pretty funny. I’m expecting the pattern to continue with lots of waitlists come April</p>
<p>Accepted. North California</p>
<p>Accepted!! ED2. The white priority mail envelope came Feb. 13. I am new to this thread. My DS is relieved and happy to be trading snow boots for flip-flops. Home state - Vermont.</p>
<p>Hi @4Snowdays If you don’t mind me asking, where do you live?</p>
<p>AllanTsui, why do you ask?</p>
<p>Decision: Accepted</p>
<p>College and Program: Pomona Early Decision II</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (by section): Critical Reading- 690, Math- 680, Writing- 730
[</em>] SAT IIs: Literature- 740, U.S. History- 720
[<em>] ACT: n/a
[</em>] APs: Completely forgot to add 11th grade AP Test Scores to my application (stupidly) so I won’t list them here. I took/am taking: AP Language&Comp, AP Literature&Comp, AP Calculus AB, AP Physics AB, AP Chemistry, AP U.S. History, AP Art History, AP Biology, AP Goverment
[<em>] IBs: n/a
[</em>] GPA (UW, W): 3.9259, 4.2037
[<em>] Rank: 10 of 355 (top 3%)
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[</em>] ECs listed on app: Job (see below), Soprano in church choir for 11 years, Swim team manager for 3 years, Published in a national poetry compilation, Assistant programmer of robotics team for 1 year, 100+ hours of volunteering at the library for 5 consecutive summers, Guitar Club secretary, Staff writer for L.A. Youth
[<em>] Other awards: High School Student of the Month, California Scholarship Federation Gold Seal, National AP Scholar, National Merit Commendation, National Hispanic Recognition Program Scholar
[</em>] Job/Work Experience: Library Page at public library since the beginning of 11th grade (2 years)
[<em>] Essays (subject and responses): Pomona College prompt (You are walking down the street when something catches your eye. You stop and stare for a long while, amazed and fascinated. What are you looking at?)- Was fascinated by words printed on the sidewalk in all sizes, from classic texts; very metaphorical as I intend to go into English. Sounds better in the essay than in summary! CommonApp prompt (open prompt)- It’s very hard to explain. The easiest way of summing it up is existential; you can read it here if you’d like: [hypocritical</a> verses](<a href=“http://fc00.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2012/330/9/a/hypocritical_verses___by_straybutterflies-d5m93o6.html]hypocritical”>http://fc00.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2012/330/9/a/hypocritical_verses___by_straybutterflies-d5m93o6.html)
[li] Teacher Recs: Three instead of two (one English, one Bio/Math Analysis Honors, one APUSH/APAH); very strong as I’ve had 2/3 for more than one year and more than one subject, and form close relationships with teachers.[/li][</em>] Counselor Rec: Strong I suppose; I believe she copied and pasted from the brag sheet I’d given her, but she is very enthusiastic and knows me well.
[<em>] Applied on (EA?): Early Decision II (12/08)
[</em>] Hook (if any): The essays, by far.
[/ul]Location/Person:[ul]
[<em>] State or Country: Southern California (less than an hour away from Claremont)
[</em>] School Type: Public
[<em>] Ethnicity: Hispanic
[</em>] Gender: Female
[/ul]**General Comments/Congratulations/Venting/Commiserations,etc: ** Whoops, almost didn’t fill this out (hence edit). Congratulations to all who got in! 
I cannot wait to meet all of you this coming year! Hmm, let’s see, further notes: I selected English Language & Literature as my major, with Liberal Arts second and Undecided third. Interviewed and left behind a writing portfolio that apparently went into my file. Have visited campus many times since I was very, very small. Dream come true!</p>
<p>Congratulations to all of you who got in!
I’ve been waiting for my decision for a long time now, being international(Indian), I understand the mail might take time but doesn’t Pomona send international students an email notifying them of their decision?</p>
<p>
Nice Whitman reference at the end. 
I adore that poem.</p>
<p>@firstfeathers</p>
<p>You give me hope. We have similar stats (I have a higher SAT and slightly lower GPA) and it seems like we wrote pretty similar essays. Mine were about the same subject matter. I love your common app essay though, I feel like mine pales in comparison.</p>
<p>This forum helped me navigate through the college admissions process, so I decided to post my stats for future reference. </p>
<p>Decision: Accepted</p>
<p>College and Program:</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (by section): 2260 one sitting (750 CR/710 M/800 W)
[</em>] SAT IIs: 800 World History 790 Lit
[<em>] ACT:
[</em>] APs: (9th~11th) Human Geo, WH, Euro, Lang, Physics B, USH all 5s except Physics (12th) Lit, Bio, Calc BC, Macro, US Gov
[<em>] IBs:
[</em>] GPA (UW, W): 3.895 UW
[<em>] Rank: 34/728 (top 5%)
[</em>] Other stats: Governor’s Honors finalist in social studies (didn’t attend), QuestBridge finalist, stuff that the adcom probably did not know about like TASP and school awards.</p>
<p>[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] ECs listed on app: Young Democrats (President), extensive volunteering with church and a local animal shelter, debate club (school doesn’t have a competitive debate team), minor involvement in student government. I also am involved in a few other political activities such as publishing a feminist zine and organizing kids to write to senators, some of which I briefly and non-specifically mentioned in one of my essays, but did not put them down on the CA since I don’t consider them as formal “extracurriculars.”
No ECs freshman year, due to family circumstances.
[</em>] Job/Work Experience:
[<em>] Essays (subject and responses): CA was on riot grrrl, received generally favorable responses. Pomona supplement was on local politics and the immigrant community and quite awful, although I did not show it to other people.
[</em>] Interview: Awkward. I remember some bits. We were talking about this Bergman film I watched at TASP, so I asked him if he has ever seen it, just trying to be friendly, and he was like “nope.” I also mentioned that I want to go to a college where conservative opinions aren’t drowned out, and he was like “there are few conservatives at Pomona.” I guess it didn’t hurt me too much.
[<em>] Teacher Recs: Didn’t read, but probably good.
[</em>] Counselor Rec: Didn’t read. It’s her first year and we don’t know each other well.
[<em>] Applied on (EA?): ED II
[</em>] Hook (if any): </p>
<p>[/ul]Location/Person:[ul]
[<em>] State or Country: Georgia
[</em>] School Type: Semi-competitive public, but few people apply to liberal arts colleges.
[<em>] Ethnicity: Asian
[</em>] Gender: F
[/ul]**General Comments/Congratulations/Venting/Commiserations,etc: ** I didn’t even send in my financial aid documents since I thought I’d be rejected. Looking at some of y’all’s stats, I still don’t know how I got accepted. Also I think I put down philosophy as my prospective major! </p>
<p>Did any of you guys get your financial aid packages already?</p>
<p>I’m in China right now, waiting for my decision. Has anyone gotten an email decision or decision by post?</p>
<p>@Firstfeathers: I just read your common app essay. It was beautiful.</p>