<p>Hey! I'm from the east coast, and I recently came across Pomona in one of my college guidebooks. So far, this looks like the holy grail of colleges (lol). The settings is beautiful, the 5-LAC thing is cool (never knew about this before I stumbled upon this), and the people I hear are very nice, smart, and down to earth. </p>
<p>Some added info about me, I'm currently considering UPenn my top choice for undergrad, and I plan to go on to premed ... BUT I don't want to spend my undergrad years toiling away against nerdy, nonstop working premeds at a top ivy like Penn though. How is the premed advising, research, med school acceptance rate, and general atmosphere for a premed here?</p>
<p>Sorry If I'm asking for a lot, but I don't get much info about this school here on the East Coast. No one has heard of it -___-</p>
<p>I can only speak to a couple of things. My daughter has a great advisor in the biology department who is really good about seeing the big picture and keeping stress under control. She has a research position this semester which should help her figure out if she wants to go the phd route or the premed route.</p>
<p>She spent Saturday at the beach. Enough said!</p>
<p>Many kids go premed here, we also have one of the highest medical school acceptance rates in the country. I am also from the East Coast so I know how you feel but dont be disillusioned, Pomona has an incredibly strong student body and amazing resources.</p>
<p>I’m a second year at medical school on the East Coast and graduated from Pomona in 2007. When I was there, I felt the pre-med environment was ideal – with no curves in pre-med classes (well only the kind that can help you), there was no competition among classmates and everyone always helped each other out. Professors were also very approachable and made it comfortable to ask questions, in and outside of the classroom. Many of my pre-med friends went on to great schools. You will definitely have research opportunities and great recommendations. You will certainly need to put in some work to get through the pre-med program, but I and many of my friends found plenty of free time to enjoy. However, you’ll always find at least a few people at any school who mostly like to study. Pre-med advising generally is much more encouraging and supportive rather than scaring people from applying in order to raise their medical school acceptance rates.</p>
<p>Pomona won’t have the name recognition among the general population, but medical schools do know it well and its reputation. It was also nice to know that people weren’t going to Pomona just for the name, but because they really liked what the school had to offer.</p>