@Baron1898 Ha! I know exactly why the new CDS is not filled in correctly (have made the same goof myself). My notes say that there were 211 total EDs admitted out of 1496 applicants for a 14.1% rate, but that is skewed a bit by the 20 Posse and 17ish QBs. As @ArtsyKidDad notes, there is also a pretty good chunk of athletes in there as well (the 100% thing is a bit more nuanced). I’ve heard Pomona AOs emphatically state in public and private that they evaluate both ED rounds the same. I suspect Pomona’s ED/RD thing is again, a bit more nuanced. But yeah, for non-hooked applicants in either case the rate is pretty darn low.
Tough situation! Though a Pomona degree is worth its weight in gold.
It makes the degree a bit heavy but still manageable to carry around, at the current gold price it would be slightly over 5 kg or just over 11 lbs.
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Yes yes - for sure. My son graduated (I think) the commencement was online, last year and now works from his apt in San Fran. Great company came to Pomona to hire him and have an in for Stanford MBA slots.
Pomona degrees open doors.
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I hope for a similar happy ending, although Stanford MBA is unlikely - I just couldn’t resist the cheap jab at the absurdity of higher education cost.
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Hi! Any ideas/speculations about when ED2 decisions will come out? I have heard that it can be correlated with when ED1 came out, so if ED1 came out late ED2 will come out late etc.
Decisions will be out by February 15 for certain.
C/O 2024 ED1 came out on December 6, while C/O 2025 ED1 came out on December 15.
C/O 2024 ED2 came out on February 7, so it seems that this year it might come out around a week later (near the 15th).
If anyone needs additional motivations re. Pomona: they are sooo sweet to admitted students. When my D complimented their merch (a sweatshirt) on Instagram, they replied: “the merch is great but the person wearing it is so much greater.”
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Hi all. Anyone here who applied EDII? anxiously awaiting
I did!!
Does anyone know the exact ED2 decision release date?
Yes!! Any guesses for the decision release date?
By February 15th; I don’t think an exact date has been announced yet.
Do they even announce the date or just release the decisions without previous notice?
I checked their twitter account, and apparently, they don’t send previous notice.
However, they announced the ED 1 release date in the same day they released the decisions on their Instagram account.
15th is president’s day, 13th & 14th are not weekdays… maybe the decision will be out next week?
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Yes, that’s right. Who knows whether they’ll announce it on the day that they release or earlier.
While speculating about the date and prior announcements, I would recommend the attitude often suggested by physicians: hope for the best, be prepared for the worst. ED1 was rather anticlimactic, with very little fanfare on social media, and literally nothing on their website. They were very proud to announce those admitted a few days earlier with a free ride (Posse and Questbridge), not so much for the rest. So my guess would be: they’d announce rather later than sooner, without giving much early warning.
has anyone tried to DM them? Maybe they might tell us if they’re releasing decisions a bit earlier than the 15th this year? I know they released EDI on Tuesday the 15th, so it might be Tuesday February 16th…
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