<p>Hm, I got the email, but I could still log in. The only thing was that the admissions tab and the new tab I saw yesterday were not there anymore.</p>
<p>Update: “In at Pomona” tab has been removed. The plot thickens…</p>
<p>Also, I’m not sure if this means anything, but I did not receive the email.</p>
<p>Don’t read too much into it. The portal is notoriously unreliable, although this year’s version is far better than last year’s. Just wait for the decision letters, as they should be going out soon. </p>
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<p>Along with Pomona, I was accepted to Columbia, Duke, Georgetown SFS and USC (waitlisted at Harvard and Princeton), but my final decision ultimately ended up being between Pomona and Columbia. I visited both before choosing Pomona… </p>
<p>Pomona’s campus was beautiful and warm, and gave me an instant sense of community. Students were outside playing volleyball or frisbee, lying out in the sun reading books, jogging, etc. It was a Sunday afternoon and I really liked the laid-back and relaxed impression I got from the students. The idyllic weather and gorgeous campus didn’t hurt. The following Monday was admitted students’ day, and my suspicions were confirmed. People are happy here, and incredibly friendly. The professors are great; I sat in on a Psycholinguistics class and the professor made it a point to include me and the other prospective students in the discussion, even though we knew nothing about psycholinguistics. During my visit it was clear to me that the school really cares about the wellbeing of its students. </p>
<p>Columbia’s campus, while architecturally impressive, wasn’t as welcoming as Pomona’s. I had a great time with the students I stayed with, but I didn’t get the same vibe from the rest of the student body. In class, people were generally not engaged or excited by anything other than their laptops. At the same time, I really liked the idea of going to school in New York City (LA really doesn’t compare, in my opinion), especially as prestigious a school as Columbia. But during my visit I didn’t get the immediate sense that I belonged to Columbia, whereas I did at Pomona. That was the biggest factor in my decision, and there is no doubt in my mind it was the right one.</p>
<p>I just went to log in before looking at this thread and receiving the email. I called admissions because my log in was not working, and they said that everyone’s account is being deactivated today. (could be at different times) Thus, I found out that I had received the email also, and even so I could not log in. I think they reset everyone’s passwords today in differing orders so noone can have problems with this all. It though is technical diffculties.</p>
<p>Hey lolcats - thanks so much for offering your expertise! A couple questions I thought of:</p>
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<li>Do you know any Pomona students who come from the East Coast, and if so, how often would you say they travel home?</li>
<li>How common is it for students to take leisure trips to outside-Claremont places like LA, more distant cities, Joshua Tree, the beach, etc? Or I guess the deeper question is: how strong is that so-called campus bubble, especially for a kid with car-owning friends but no car?</li>
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<p>Thanks muchly in advance :)</p>
<p>As a parent of a Pomona student, the most accurate route to know if you are in or not is via the US post office mail. If you are admitted you will receive the big envelope in the mail sometime between now and end of March. Be patient (I know it is tough) and remember that admission is not assured for <em>most</em> applicants as only a lucky few will indeed get in. I am sure you all have alternate colleges, just in case…</p>
<p>So I called the Pomona Admissions Office and they told me that deferred canidates do not recieve a myPomona portal login, so I really doubt what the login says has any bearing on admission.</p>
<p>Is everyone still able to log on to the portal despite what the email stated?</p>
<p>Peachie: My D is a first year at Pomona and we are from the east coast. She came home for Thanksgiving and Christmas. Decided to do Alternabreak in San Fran for spring break instead of coming home. We did come out to visit for Parent’s weekend in Feb. and she is coming home in May. Next year she probably won’t want to come home for Thanksgiving. It’s a lot of traveling for 4 days and then you come home 3 weeks later for winter break anyway. I believe that almost all my D’s friends from around the country have basically the same plans as she.</p>
<p>Oh well, it was fun having a glimmer of hope for a few hours; this waiting is tough!</p>
<p>wait, can anyone still log in?</p>
<p>^I had the tab before. I can log in, but I only don’t have it anymore or the admissions tab.</p>
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<li><p>Most students, regardless of where they are from, go home for Thanksgiving and winter break. Not so much for Spring Break. Some people from California go home a couple more times, depending on how far away they live. </p></li>
<li><p>There are plenty of opportunities to get off campus for such a person (I would describe myself the same way). In the past month I’ve been able to go rock climbing, go stay at a friend’s house in LA, visit the beach, compete at mock trial nationals in Irvine, visit Mt. Baldy to play in the snow, drive randomly all over LA for fun/sometimes to get dim-sum. More often than not I have to turn down opportunities to get off campus because I’m too busy. In that sense the campus bubble is strong; the opportunities to take trips are there, but sometime’s you’re just too busy to take advantage of them. That’s not such a bad thing though, because so much is happening on campus all the time anyways! Does that help?</p></li>
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<p>Nice! Thanks so much for your answers, LC and Oclement. Definitely helpful :)</p>
<p>I would assume the tabs were insignificant until we find out otherwise on dday. Good luck to all, hopefully we get our mail soon!</p>
<p>I can still log in, but I don’t have that tab (although I didn’t check if I had it before)…</p>
<p>I had the tab, I got accepted</p>
<p>Congratulations dulcecab!</p>
<p>I never got my login info at all. P just used to regularly mail me about what progress went on regarding my application. I think I got like 6-8 mails from them. But then I’m an international applicant…
(I haven’t received my decision yet btw.)</p>
<p>Ditto on the congratulations dulcecab!!</p>
<p>Man, it sucks being in the south…</p>
<p>but if that tab and your acceptance were related…that’s awesome to think about! :)</p>
<p>I thought they e-mailed us that our passwords wouldn’t work? I tried logging in and mine didn’t, so I can’t check…no!!! D:</p>