<p>Good Luck and go to Harvard.</p>
<p>Even though I would love to advise you to go to Amherst, it sounds like Pomona for you. And congratulations!</p>
<p>i'm going to CMC.. and i know.. Pomona is a really great school to be at.. i made a lot of friends too.. and haven't you heard? Pomona is the HARVARD OF THE WEST.. doesn't get much better does it? a Harvard on the West Coast.... WOOT. </p>
<p>and yes.. if you do well in undergrad at pomona.. you'll definitely qualify for Harvard grad school. Pomona is REALLY GOOD at feeding their undergrads into top grad schools. YOU CAN DO IT!</p>
<p>Let us know how the Harvard visit goes, Grim Shogun.</p>
<p>Good luck! =)</p>
<p>Don't turn down Harvard. This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.</p>
<p>Grim... Pomona is a once in a lifetime opportunity. You can always go to Harvard for graduate school, which is what that University is all about. But you can't do the reverse!</p>
<p>Harvard would likely offer a better educational experience -- for GRAD school. Undergrad, a prestigious LAC is as good as it gets if you can afford it.</p>
<p>From an earlier post:</p>
<p>"Pomona to Hollywood: 38 miles
Harvard to Hollywood: 2,985 miles</p>
<p>Can you say internship?</p>
<p>For best name - Harvard
For best program - NYU
For best location - Pomona"</p>
<p>Check out the PCIP Program:</p>
<p>Basically Pomona will also pay you $10/hr to take an unpaid internship in the area, match you with an employer, and set you up with a car to drive there (as well as pay you for gas AND travel time). Many students have used this program to get really good internships in Hollywood (who loves the program because they don't have to pay the interns). Just about 100 students are involved in a PCIP this semester, and nearly everyone who goes through the application process gets matched.</p>
<p>You wouldn't be the first to turn down Harvard for Pomona, even one of the 12 transfer students (of this year) came in from Harvard (others came from Yale, Northwestern, Wesleyan, Rice, Davidson, Vanderbilt, Cornell, etc.)</p>
<p>I flew in today....I thought they would drive me from the airport! I had to pay a cab driver $40 to get to the campus because I didn't know how to use the bus system :[ I also will have to pay the same amount Sunday morning when I leave since my flight it so early. Someone from the admissions office said they could reimburse my fees in a FEW WEEKS. I was very disappointed by this, because all of the other colleges I visited personally drove me to the campus. I also qualify for great financial aid, so this cab business really hit me in the pocket. :( It made me feel like I wasn't worth the time and effort to get from the airport.</p>
<p>I don't know. It feels weird here. A friend of mine told me to wake up tomorrow with a positive attitude. </p>
<p>I feel like if I didn't come here, I really wouldn't have any regrets. Just the fact that I would be harassed by many people for not going..</p>
<p>Aww hang in there it is just a matter of getting used to it. The cab fare is normal for east coast cities and actually $40.</p>
<p>$40.00 is not bad. (sorry i was cut off I inadvertently hit return). Harvard is too big to be personally driving people from the airport. You will be fine just calm down. Not everyone is going to hold your hand, be strong, you belong there or you would not have been admitted.</p>
<p>GO TO HARVARD; my best friend is turning it down for Yale.........but think of all the people they DIDN'T let in.......PLEASE GO!</p>
<p>No, go where you feel the most comfortable, but I really think there are a ton of resources available at harvard that are not anywhere else......good luck!</p>
<p>Don't pay $40 to go back to the airport! The subway is great, it's $1.70, there's a stop right on campus, you change to the Silver Line SL1 bus at South Station and it drops you right at the airport check-in counter. It even has luggage racks for your stuff.</p>
<p>OK, about Harvard and undergrads. I don't know where this stuff comes from that the school ignores them, faculty don't like teaching them, etc. My D1 is a sophomore there. She's been to cookouts at faculty members' houses, her profs know her by name, they help her set up internships and study-abroad, they encourage her to visit for office hours, one had her helping prepare his presentation before the U.N. on logging in the Amazon when she was a freshman. What's more, there are funds and grants everywhere for all kinds of things. She's had a stipend for off-campus voice lessons and a partial grant for an internship in South America. This summer she'll teach and travel in China for two and a half weeks, all but the airfare covered by Harvard. I went to a USNWR Top 30 university with < 3,000 undergrads; I never had this kind of faculty interaction.</p>
<p>GO TO HARVARD; my best friend is turning it down for Yale.........but think of all the people they DIDN'T let in.......PLEASE GO!</p>
<p>The same applies to Pomona my friend. Though I honestly do agree with the idea "go where you feel the most comfortable." Both are great schools and will most likely serve you well in whatever you decide to do. Harvard is great if you really want prestige in your background, but in academic circles Pomona just as highly regarded. And if you do something you dont have to deal with the line 'And you went to Harvard?'</p>
<p>I wont be as pressuring as certain people in this thread and remind you to take every specific opinion on here with a grain of salt, especially those pushing superficial things like prestige. It may be important, but enjoying the next four years of your life - where you will be happiest - should the most important factor in your decision.</p>
<p>Sorry Seiken you are dead wrong. Pomona is the 3rd or 4th best school in California. Harvard is top 3 in the World. It is not about superficiality it is about opportunity, access to resources and one's future. Pomona is a cute LAC and a great school but Harvard it is not.</p>
<p>Your claims are entirely unfounded. I would expect better from someone of the name UCLA PhD, perhaps some understanding of subjectiveness and what people value is important. I am starting to think the only reason you have that name is because you think that title makes you smarter than everyone else. </p>
<p>The adjective you use - 'best' - is one with an entire subjective basis. I could justify being UCSB being the best college in California if my main priorities were the surrounding area and attractive ladies. So I understand that by 'best' you mean ONLY by prestige standards. Personally I believe that, with respect to quality of undergraduate education and teaching, Pomona part of the best system in California - the Claremont colleges. </p>
<p>I am also going to take the time to simply call you completely ignorant with knowledge relating to Pomona and what it can do. Regarding the statement
Pomona is a cute LAC and a great school but Harvard it is not.
-What do you mean Pomona is cute? I am not quite sure but it sounds demeaning, implying that it is not a serious school.
-Obviously Pomona is not Harvard. Other schools dont look to Harvard for figuring out how to deliver a quality undergraduate education; they look to Pomona. If I remember correctly, even Harvard has stated they look to Pomona. (I will look for the article)
-Regarding opportunity, access to resources and one's futures - what do you know about Pomona? Everybody knows it offers great of all of the above. You obviously have no qualifications to speak about Pomona with regard to this and its starting to annoy me that you believe you do. </p>
<p>Honestly, you have said everything you can say in this thread that you are qualified to say. Quit calling everybody's opinion wrong and trying to tell someone else what is right or wrong for them, when you hardly even know what they are like and what they are looking for. The point of these threads are to give helpful discussion to help people make their own decision - not order them what to do without back up evidence as if it were an order. Please, next time you give any numbers or listing - site your sources if you make any definite claims.</p>
<p>Pomona is a great school and in California fits nicely in the third slot behind Stanford and Cal and tied with UCLA. Cute means it is a nice small liberal arts school in a great (albeit sheltered) environment; that is Claremont. It is not as diverse (not just ethnically but in terms of opportunity etc), worldly or established as a place like Harvard. </p>
<p>Some people do have the luxury of picking a school based on subjectivities like "how they feel" or "where the fit" but there is no way one can tell that on a 2 day recruitment visit. The reality is always different come fall, so let's be real here. People choose Harvard over any other school in the country (there is a thread here that links the evidence). Oh yeah and Pomona didn't even make the list of the 20 or so schools.</p>
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<p>That statement is correct, as long as you meant behind Stanford and Caltech.</p>
<p>Cal Tech is a speciality school they are in the same class with the MIT's, GA Tech's, UCSF etc so I am not really concerned with those places in this case. And sorry Pomona does not compare to Berkeley on an international scale and they could only dream about having Cal's faculty. Academically, I am no more impressed with their students than I am with the students on my campus and in fact many seem quite sheltered. Further, their graduate programs are relatively weak. Very USC-ish in fact. (Note I said grad programs not professional programs) Again, Pomona is a great LAC and great place but it should not be overstated. Should I come up with 47 reasons? Would that appease you? haha</p>
<p>Once again, please state the variable you are referencing when you make statements such as "Pomona is a great school and in California fits nicely in the third slot behind Stanford and Cal and tied with UCLA. "</p>
<p>If it is who would generally chose what over where, then It would indeed probably be behind Stanford, though probably above Berkeley when you consider the instate factor, and it is almost certainly above UCLA. As for Caltech, there arent really enough cross-admits to figure this out. Pomona vs Caltech is apples to oranges.</p>
<p>And what graduate program are you referencing in your last post?</p>