Pomona College Class of 2025 Applicants Thread

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Their PSA on social media got me in my feels. I just wanna know Pomona

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@ArtsyKidDad Taking into account the PSA on Pomona’s instagram do you believe there is any chance they will release their results by this Friday?

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Seeing the PSA makes it sound like it’s going to be closer to the 15th than Friday - still holding out hope though

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I heard from a college coach that the ED release date will most likely be this Friday at 5PM PST

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Did they get that from Pomona or are they just making a reasoned guess?

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In all of the years since Pomona began releasing results online: 1) It has always been on a Friday at 5 PST, and 2) They’ve never missed a “by” date. Yes, this has been a weird year, but last I heard (albeit second hand), they were on track to just about finish their initial file review a couple of weeks ago. One possible Covid hang I heard from another college is that it’s been a little harder than usual to run down some HS counselors for quarter grades/progress reports (assuming Pomona’s doing that this year). Fingers crossed for all of you!

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@otisp, this could be dated information, but via their application info on the website, they will only be requesting grades from ED applicants if you are differed to RD.

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@BookSmartKid where did you read that about ED students?

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Ok, I think you are referring to this:

“1. The candidate is deferred. These candidates will receive their final decisions with the Regular Decision applicants pending mid-year grades, additional testing information, supplementary writing samples or other information requested by the Admissions Committee.”

Those are mid year grades, not the quarter year ones @otisp was referring to.

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Two nuggets of information from the latest admissions webinar:

  1. They are still “fine tuning” the ED class and hope “to release decisions in the coming few days.” They can’t provide an exact time or date right now.

  2. There was an increase of ED I applications, and they “expect more applications in every round this year”, but the number of admitted students has not risen compared to last year. Seems in line with the reported increase of applicants for other elite colleges.

Edit: Also just anecdotal, but I haven’t gotten any request for quarter grades.

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@Baron1898 thanks for the update! “Shaping” is definitely near the end of the process. Re: “the grades” Like I said, I don’t know exactly what they’re doing this year, but in past years quarter grade requests went directly to the counselors - who occasionally “spilled” the info to the applicants (creating yet another level of speculation and anxiety on this forum). Also, good to hear that apparently they’re not reducing this year’s target class size due to the higher than usual number of last year’s admits who put off matriculating because of Covid.

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My daughter was accepted this week with a Posse scholarship. She is very excited!

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I spoke to my son’s college counselor this morning and she said that the likelihood that Pomona would release their ED’s today without notifying applicants before hand is very low. Usually colleges notify students regarding intended ED release a couple days in advance and so the chances that Pomona will release tonight seem dull. Unfortunately it seems as if we will have to wait a couple more days. That said, she also did say that this year because things are in such a flux anything could happen! Has anyone heard anything that would allude to Pomona releasing EDs today? The suspense is killing my son!

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Seems like you’re probably gonna be right about that.

Still holding out hope for tonight - waiting another few days is gonna be torture.

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So it’s safe to say we won’t hear by tonight?

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they usually release decisions 5 pm PT on fridays so i wouldn’t give up completely on today

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they usually send an email saying there’s been an update to your application but it usually comes out like an hour after the portals updated. I would check the portal at 5 pm PT today, and if it’s not out by then, I’d assume sometime next week! Good luck to everyone applying!

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don’t see anything on the portal unfortunately

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Nothing Here. Given that the next 2 days are the weekend, I wouldn’t count on it getting released before Monday.

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Sorry if I jinxed you guys
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