<p>"The Fall Weekend at Pomona is an opportunity for prospective students from first-generation, low-income, and/or underrepresented minority backgrounds starting their senior year of high school to visit the campus."</p>
<p>If you're interested in Pomona and want to see the campus for yourself, check this program out! You may qualify for a travel grant depending on your need and your accommodations will be covered if you're accepted. It was through this program that Pomona because my first choice school so I really recommend it! The program involves a lot of freedom in terms of seeing what campus life is like and is accompanied by seminars, the possibility to have an interview, and the chance to explore the wonderful Southern California location!</p>
<p>Applications are due mid-september for the first program and mid-october for the second program.</p>
<p>Sorry, in the process of quickly adding more details my original sentence got distorted. I meant to say <em>became my first choice school</em>. </p>
<p>An important consideration to keep in mind-
Pomona only covers the travel costs for interested students once. There are two programs- one in the fall for students interested in applying, and one in the spring for accepted students. If you go to the fall weekend program with your travel covered you will not be given a travel grant for the spring (though you will be accepted along with accommodations provided for that program). It will be up to you to decide whether you want to see the campus now or later if you can not afford the cost of travel.</p>
<p>If you do not qualify for this program, please do not feel like you can’t visit. We at Pomona will find you a place to stay and make sure you get to see whatever you want to, and the administration will most likely cover your costs for food and allow you to visit classes- if they don’t, we have a lot of guest meals =) Just let the ASPC at Pomona or the Admissions department know!</p>
<p>Do you know how long the stay is? Is it just one night, or a few nights? Also, will the travel grant cover all expenses, or does it depend on your income?</p>
<p>It is a few nights which is a great way to decide if Pomona is right for you. </p>
<p>Yes, it is based on income. The idea is to give students a chance to visit who ordinarily cannot. </p>
<p>Pomona is tied for my DD first choice school. She is visiting the Claremont consortium in a few weeks to make up her mind on Pomona. Doing an overnight is critical IMO.</p>
<p>Good luck! Some of these programs give application fee waivers which is very nice.</p>
<p>The stay is for four days, Friday-Monday. If you are accepted, you will get your accommodations covered, as in a room and food as well as excursions to SoCal. The only part which is income dependent is the travel grant. If you, like lacrossemom says, can’t ordinarily come to visit, Pomona will cover that, otherwise you will have to a way to get there yourself.</p>
<p>Wow that sounds awesome! I got accepted to a similar program at Williams, but I’m really interested in Pomona as well. Hopefully I can get into this program!</p>
<p>Yes, they do. It shows demonstrated interest.</p>
<p>There is a site that has all of the diversity fly in visits. Majority of the deadlines have past, however there are a few still open. </p>
<p>If you want a great LAC, then Pomona and Williams are at the top. Others are Amherst and Swarthmore. If you aren’t able to visit before applications, then they may still fly you out in the spring.</p>
<p>Just got an email invite for this, may look into it, a good friend of mine goes to Pomona, but I’m not sure if I want that small of a campus, but their Economics school sounds cool and they do feed into all of the best grad schools, so well see, anyone go on this?</p>