Hello, everyone! Thank you so much for all of these comments! They’ve been super helpful and I’m really glad to be part of this great community 
@Corinthian Thank you so much for all of this information and for answering practically all of my questions! I’m really glad to hear that the atmosphere at Pomona is more collaborative than competitive.
@nostalgicwisdom I never knew that so many students go to graduate school from Pomona! That’s really interesting to hear and I think that it would be great to be surrounded by students with similar career goals. I also had one question: how easy is it to take courses at the other colleges? I have seen some really interesting Psychology courses at CMC and Scripps and would love to take those as well.
@MYOS1634 Thank you for the advice. I do plan on becoming much more independent when I go to college and actually plan on practicing it before I go to college (attending high school classes on my own, going out with friends alone, etc.) Living on-campus definitely sounds appealing for the reasons you have stated and I do understand that I’ll be missing a lot of opportunities by living off-campus. Unfortunately, after talking with my counselor, we have decided that it would still be more beneficial for me to live off-campus, whether with my parents or not, to avoid illnesses that tend to go around all at once at the dorms. I hope that I will still be able to practice independent living off-campus, but will definitely take your advice into consideration. Thank you!