<p>OperaDad: I think I disagree with you. While application officers may have some clear reasons for decisions in some cases, often there are equally excellent candidates and the college can’t admit them all. The differences between candidates can be so small and, in those cases, explaining the choices are post-hoc rationalizations.</p>
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You’re not the only one – I still remember the delicious brunch I had there several years ago!</p>
<p>OK, so obviously I am missing something since my son goes to Pomona and I haven’t eaten at the dining hall. I must put this on my to-do list. On Admit day, they had a fabulous lunch for parents, but the lunch on move-in day was not especially good - although a reception later that day was. If you remember a meal you had at a college dining hall years ago in a positive way – that is saying something!</p>
<p>^Try the dining hall on a regular day and let us know what you think. I would hate to think that Pomona was guilty of pulling the old bait and switch on its prospective students.</p>
<p>I’ll have to drive out there for a meal. But my son has consistently said that the food is very, very good and that the other colleges in the consortium all have special menus on certain evenings that everyone flocks too. Without question, his dining situation is a hundred times better than the one my last kid had.</p>
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<p>Despicable. Horrible.</p>
<p>^^Wow. That is unbelievable. Kudos to Pomona for figuring that out. That is just so low.</p>