3/25 according to college kickstart
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According to their Instagram, all decisions will be out by April 1 (which we already knew), and theyāll update us if they are able to release before.
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At this point, I really think itās practically impossible to guess when decisions will drop. Letās just hope it wonāt be on April 1st though.
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For everyone waiting, what is your college pick if Pomona isnāt an option for you?
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For my daughter, Carnegie Mellon and Barnard seem to be her top 2. Aside from Pomona, she is also waiting on Michigan, Cooper Union, Cornell and Macaulay HC.
For me, Dartmouth and Princeton are my other 2 top choices. Expecting a miracle lol
That is amazing. Both of my Dās skipped the Ivies and stuck with the small LACās. Best of luck!!
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Best of luck!! I donāt know much about CM or B. Are they similar?
Thatās kind of difficult to decide right now, since it depends on the decisions Iām waiting on. I regret not applying to more LACs; all my current options are larger schools (mainly UCs, and Iām OOS). Iāve also been waitlisted to some good options, so Iāll really have to see how it all works out.
I predict as others have that a record number of WLers will get a call this year. It will make for an angsty but beautiful summer for many. (Hope!)
Thanks! Good luck to you too!
Carnegie Mellon is a more traditional, STEM oriented university. Think a bigger MIT or smaller Cornell and you are in the ballpark. Barnard is a womenās LAC adjacent to Columbia. Those two, and Harvey Mudd (an eclectic bunch) were her top three. She was not accepted at Mudd.
Their tweet sent out yesterday says:
All pending admissions decisions for the Fall 2021 entry term (regular decision, transfer and
deferrals) will be released BY* April 1, 2021.
*We will update on social media if and when we are able to release before this date. Stay tuned!
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Iām not sure that I would described CMU as a traditional nor stem oriented university although it is obviously very strong and popular in STEM. CMU is the result of a sort of unusual merger and they ended up with 6 (or 7? or 12? donāt remember now plus it depends on how you count themā¦) different departments/colleges that are compartmentalized and standalone. Within those colleges there is even more compartmentalization and in some of them you have to apply to your subspecialty from the get go (high school). The college of fine arts for example is world class across the board and you have to chose one of their subspecialties and audition your way into it with little possibility of changing within that college. There is some crossover between departments/colleges but it works very differently from traditional liberal arts colleges (Pomona) or classical universities (Yale) where you can freely explore across the board and chose your major later. MIT has less undergraduates overall than CMU but since MIT has a larger percentage of STEM majors than CMU and CMU is by design segregated by major (even STEM majors are segregated among different colleges or within the college themselvesā¦) it may feel like larger school. Although some/many? are committed already when they enter MIT students are allowed to explore and chose a major later on. Cornell is much bigger but I wouldnāt call it traditional either. Unlike CMU (and MOST schools out there) both MIT and Cornell are the land grant institutions of their respective states (MIT path is different but thatās another storyā¦). Cornell AFAIK stands alone as being a hybrid between an elite private (even Ivy branding) AND a public flagship as it is part of the SUNY system. It is also divided among colleges you apply to (8) but being an big A&M most of those colleges are in non traditional (referring to elite private college now) academic fields such as agricultural, hotel management and industrial and labor relations. So in a sense CMU is even more compartmentalized than Cornell which is much more similar to your typical public flagship than to MIT, CMU or the other Ivies. I am only talking about specialization, CMU students can go into Dietrich or transfer if they donāt like say Mechanical Engineering or Dramatic arts. It is hard to find an analogue for CMU, I read somewhere that CWRU would be closest?.. Sorry, I started with a thought and kept going, this is the Pomona 2025! forum after all. @LuckFreeZone I just pointing out my perceived differences and similarities, I do like that selected combo you posted a lot as well.
Thank you for the added details. Generalization is a risky business and a two sentence summary relying on a shared perspective of examples is unlikely to do justice to the subjects the best case.
As an aside, in the last couple of days I read something indicating all of the Cornell colleges were private and while the state does supply funding (and there is a SUNY website for some of the colleges) the colleges are completely run by Cornell. Prior to reading that, I was under the impression some were public (or āquasi-publicā). I am now unsure.
Thanks again.
Itās very confusing. Some of those Cornell colleges I think are funded by the state but are managed by the school (Cornell is basically a contractor) while others are fully private. IIRC the original land grants in the east were all given to existing private schools, Yale was one of the first ones but a big messy controversy ensued (Yale was accused of underperforming) and the people in power took it away from them and gave it to what ended up becoming UConn today. Same with Rutgers which was private (almost merged with Princeton years earlierā¦) but unlike Cornell, Rutgers ended up becoming fully public. Now I wonder how Yale would look like today if they kept all that land and land-grant status? Yale was still very similar to Williams and Amherst Colleges and to tie it in here I think it was in that same time period (of land grants and a push away from Classical into a German model of educationā¦ MIT being THE prime example) that Congregationalists founded Pomona College using New England Congregationalist schools as a blueprint. Although Yale and Harvard (another Congregationalist college thenā¦) were starting to integrate the German model into theirs they attempted to keep the liberal arts undergraduate model intact to this day, Harvard College still runs as a standalone LAC I believe.
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Wow, Notigering, you have a wealth of knowledge about those schools! Wondering if your handle indicates that you are a fan of a rival of Princetonā¦
Just to let Cecil get back in the game, any other 47ers out there?
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Lol, IMHO I think people should throw away rankings and learn more about how all these schools were founded and evolved as it is a better indicator of the present day culture and expected academic experience.
I am a big fan of Pomona which resisted growing into a Classical-German hybrid institution (it was considered an option at one pointā¦) like HYP (left the S-Stanford out as it used Cornell, MIT and Harvard as blueprints so it is technically a hybrid of the three I would say in that orderā¦) but instead Pomona decided to start the other colleges using Oxbridge (some donāt know Oxbridge and Cambridge are each a consortium of lots of small individual colleges) as a model.
Edit To better answer your question, broadly speaking I am a fan of Pomona for college but also a fan of research universities for graduate schoolā¦ This especially for large flagships or schools such as Cornell, HYPS is complicated as they (even Stanford) have tried to keep the LAC small student body undergraduate model alive to this day so I guess I am a fan too though slightly less for the usual reasonsā¦ That said Princeton eating clubs I really dislike 
Agree with all thatā¦but forgive meā¦so is notigering = no TIGERing?
Hey everyone! Decisions come out tomorrow! They just announced it in their Insta
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