Does Pomona waitlist ED2 applicant? or just accept or reject ED2 applicant?
Pomona is my first choice, but Iâm applying RD because I want to compare financial aid (since Pomona doesnât offer merit-based aid while many of the other schools Iâm applying to do). How can I make it clear that Pomona is my top choice when Iâm applying RD?
@confused2222 During ED I & II, you can only be accepted, rejected, or deferred. For anybody wanting more information about EDII, 3 of Pomonaâs ADs recorded a Zoom chat last week that is available for anybody to watch (without registering!!!) from this page: Connect Through Webinars | Pomona College in Claremont, California - Pomona College
@ArtsyKidDad As a Pomona ED parent who also experienced a little sticker shock, my intention was indeed to commiserate but not convince. However, now that youâve made a decision, I can tell you we have never regretted pinching pennies to make it work - and my Pomona kid definitely has never regretted it either.
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@otisp I wrote: â,thanked you for convincing me, without even tryingâ and I meant just that.
very sorry to see this. Your daughter is wonderful with such solid stats. Why Pomona is not even give your daughter a defer?
My daughter apply Bio.
No defer, we donât know what is problem? pomona may need some secret, we just donât know.
@ChaseBank Your daughterâs stats arenât just âsolid,â theyâre outstanding. But, they are also not unusual for Pomona applicants - which their AOs say are pretty self-selecting (in other words, Pomona apparently doesnât get a lot of âHail Maryâ average-stat applicants like better known schools might). I donât know if itâs still true, but a couple of years ago I heard one of their senior adcoms say that they had to reject as many âperfectâ test scores as they admited. With regards to deferrals, Pomonaâs AOs have said they want to give applicants a chance to âmove onâ and concentrate on their alternatives, rather than stringing them along with false/slight hopes. I love what one of Pomonaâs adcoms says on her profile: âYou will get into many colleges. You will be denied from some colleges. Neither decision defines who you are as a person.â As @confused2222 said, in a couple of months, your daughter will have some wonderful college choices!
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Thanks!
Do you receive accept letter with financial aid at the exact sometime? Or accept letter fist and financial aid a few days later?
Thanks
FA offer was a click away from the acceptance letter, posted at the same time. Thatâs ED1 though and I donât know about ED2 and RD in that regard.
Daughter is applying EDII. GPA 3.64 SAT1420! Hoping for the best
Pomona seems to have taken âholistic admissionâ a lot further than many peer institutions, rejecting perfect score candidates, and accepting those who, based on the stats only, didnât look that strong. Letâs keep fingers crossed they will appreciate your daughterâs unique qualities.
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Has anyone received a FA portal? In my portal, I can only see my application checklist. I can not find any FA document checklistâŠ
Does anyone know the different acceptance rates for EDI, EDII, and RD? Iâve attended a lot of info sessions, and they keep saying itâs a very insignificant difference.
For some reason, the 2020 CDS for Pomona does not have the relevant spaces filled out correctly.
The 2019 CDS states that they received 1384 applicants through all ED programs (ED1, ED2, QB, and Posse) and accepted 213 of them for a 15.4% acceptance rate. Doesnât distintiguish between the different forms of ED, but clearly a significant bump compared to their RD acceptance rate.
Right above where you see the admissions checklist, there should be two boxes: one says âAdmissionsâ, and one says âFinancial Aidâ. To access the financial aid checklist, just click the second one.
If you donât see those boxes anywhere on the page, Iâm not sure. Maybe email the admissions office.
Thereâs nothing there⊠maybe because I am an international applicant, but thank you anyway! I will contact the AO.
@Baron1898 Mixing these categories makes it almost impossible to tell the actual rate of ED. Iâm not sure how they calculate Posse admission rate but if they just add the 20 people admitted that way to the ED totals, the rate for this subset would be 100%, and it would skew the whole statistics quite a bit. The same with QB. And they recruit some athletes (another close-to-100% admission rate ED group) so I would not be surprised if the ED admission rate for non-Posse, non-QB, non-Match, non-athletes turned out to be similar to RD.
It seems that the admission rate difference between genders (I saw 6% vs. 9% overall ) might be similar or larger than between ED and RD.
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