<p>Anyone have any feedback, pros cons, etc?</p>
<p>Williams is a lot more isolated than Pomona. It's a good 2.5-3 hours to get to Boston from there. I don't know about drive time to NYC. The campus is beautiful. Claremont Village is a wannabe of small towns like Williamstown. It can get pretty cold in W'town, too. The summer is the best culturally when Williamstown Theatre Festival occurs, and Tanglewood is about 45 minutes away in Lenox. But it can also get pretty hot there in the summer. (I was there for a conference one summer and brought my own fan.)</p>
<p>I got into both... and if I had to choose, I'd probably go with Pomona. Williams seems to have a jocky, sports-obsessed, preprofessional, snobby culture to it, from what I've read. Though I suppose I won't know until I visit next week.</p>
<p>I visited Williams and got a horrible vibe. The town is intolerably quiet and quaint, pretty, but after a while it wears thin. Most stores were closed by 5 PM. As Little Mother said, Williams is very isolated too. The closest airport is Albany, which requires a long drive through local roads. Conversely, Pomona is 10 minutes away from Ontario (a decently-sized airport) and about an hour from LAX without traffic. Boston is about 2.5 hours away and New York is about 4. At Pomona, you're 45 minutes from downtown LA by Metrolink. From there you can take the Metro to Hollywood, Chinatown and Universal City. Orange County's beaches are about 30 minutes away by car. But my biggest gripe about Williams is the weather, which seems to have lead to a party life revolving solely around drinking. I'd go with Pomona easily.</p>
<p>williams is isolated in the middle of nowhere, go to pomona if u dont want to fall into deep depression and jump off one of its gorgeous 16th century buildings. pomona is like freaking manhattan compared to williams. the closest city is albany, which is like an hour away, and there is NOTHING in between but woods, NOTHING i swear! williamstown has a main street that is literally like a block long. the college is the town, except for a few isolated houses around it. it is a top liberal arts school, amazing politics department, and is beautiful, but that's about it.</p>
<p>Williams is really pretty (oops to other post, forgot I visited it!) but yes, very very very isolated. I don't think you'll be bored... just isolated. On a plus side, I don't think you'll spend very much money either, there's no where to spend it! Um, but yea, middle of nowhere. Top left corner of MA where lots of people are Yankees fans for some reason and often hold a grudge against Eastern MA people because we think that Western MA is in the middle of nowhere. I guess that's fair, lol. </p>
<p>Williams seems a lot more intense than Pomona as far as sports and academics are concerned.</p>
<p>hmmm....</p>
<p>see this article. <a href="http://www.williamsrecord.com/wr/?sawContrib=yes&view=article§ion=news&id=7720%5B/url%5D">http://www.williamsrecord.com/wr/?sawContrib=yes&view=article§ion=news&id=7720</a></p>
<p>SAme response as Bowdoin.
Climate alone is enough to tilt the decision. But add the Claremont Consortium, with 5500 undergrads, and you have a better social life, and far more course selection. Williams is isolated. It's more like being in Albany than Boston.</p>
<p>Consortium + California Sun??
Unbeatable</p>
<p>The two colleges are very different. Others have noted climate and location, but Pomona physically shares a campus with four other colleges and Claremont Graduate University as well. You can take classes at any of the colleges and eat in their dining halls. They share athletic programs, there is one main library for all five colleges, and there are regular five-college parties. Of all the top LAC's, attending Pomona is by far the most like attending a small university (although Pomona is clearly still an LAC, not a university).</p>