<p>10 - It's one hour from snow, one hour from beach and one hour from Disneyland.
9 - You can take the train into LA if you don't have a car.
8 - Claremont looks and seems exactly like Williamstown, Hanover, and Cambridge. Okay, maybe not Cambridge.
7 - Balmy days, sultry nights, never any humidity whatsover, and no Lyme disease.
6 - You can wear flipflops every day for four years.
5 - 40% of the women at UCSB have STDs.
4 - Only 2 1/2 hours from UCSB.
3 - When you tell people that you go to Pomona (which at first they've never heard of) and when they look it up to see what a dweeb you are, it gives them a major YOINK to find out it's the #6 LAC, #2 in selectivity and #13 graduate feeder school, above Penn, Georgetown, UChicago, NW, Hopkins, Haverford and Bowdoin, and every other school they've been scheming to get into.
2 - The campus is beautiful, the students are smart, and the faculty and admins caring. . . .
and the number one reason is. . .
1 - It's in California, dolt!</p>
<p>Like to see if more lists would be made.</p>
<p>Hard act to follow though.</p>
<p>well, with all those with STDs at UCSB, you should be glad it's at least
2 1/2 hours away -lol</p>
<p>As far as the rankings, Pomona has more typically been 4th or 5th in US News and WrldRprt and for years the Princeton Review had the Sagehens as #1 as having the "happiest students".</p>
<p>Don't forget, besides Disneyland, your about an hour away from the Dodgers, Angels, Lakers, Hollywood Bowl, Greek Theatre, Rose Bowl, Palm Springs and not too far from San Diego and Shamu.</p>
<p>who watches the angels??? Go M's! :)</p>
<p>so why is pomona not even on the list anymore for happiest students? what caused its downfall?</p>
<p>yeah, i thought it was on that too?</p>
<p>dude. everyone knows pomona is a good school.</p>
<p>i dont think #3 applies as a reason.</p>
<p>Unless they've really been looking at liberal arts colleges, few regular people around the Boston area know about Pomona.</p>
<p>sounds like an awesome schoool :)</p>
<p>My top 10 reasons:</p>
<ol>
<li>Snack. Every night at 10:30 the dining hall opens for an hour and everyone takes a study break for cake, tea, soda, nachos, etc.</li>
</ol>
<p>9.Location, location, location.</p>
<ol>
<li><p>Campus is prettier than any ivy I've seen (which granted is not all of them).</p></li>
<li><p>Classes are small enough that you get to know your professors as people... one of mine once told us that she won 2nd prize in the Women's Division of the National Hollering Contest, and then she demonstrated.</p></li>
<li><p>The administration treats you like royalty. Death by Chocolate Party, Snow Day, Ski and Beach Day....</p></li>
<li><p>5-college consortium gives you a million opportunities.</p></li>
<li><p>As the Princeton Review says, the school really does "run like butter." When you venture out into the wide wide world after college, you will come to truly appreciate this.</p></li>
<li><p>AMAZING academics</p></li>
<li><p>AMAZING academics (sorry, they're so amazing they take up two slots)</p></li>
<li><p>The smart and personable people you will meet there and love for the rest of your life. This really is the best thing about it.</p></li>
</ol>
<p>Irene, '03</p>
<ul>
<li>Fernando Lozano</li>
</ul>
<p>Haha, amen to that, brassmonkey!</p>
<p>Addendum to #7 on Irene's list: you really do get to know your profs. D was asked by one of her professors to be his RA.</p>
<p>I think Little Mother means TA</p>
<p>Nope--research assistant. :)</p>
<p>oooooh, even better</p>
<p>new one:</p>
<p>SKI-BEACH DAY</p>
<p>next saturday, a Pomona will take anyone who signs up (snow) skiing in the morning, and then to the beach to relax for the afternoon evening. </p>
<p>Can any school compete with that?</p>
<p>I thought this next Saturday was parent's weekend. Or do you mean the following Saturday?</p>
<p>It would be like my son to take off for the beach on Parent's weekend!!</p>
<p>Its a week from Saturday...</p>
<p>...another new one that I noticed today</p>
<p>Whenever you walk through the lounge of any dorm, you'll hear someone on the piano absolutely shredding it, playing like ridiculously great **** and it is just mindblowing to be around that much talent all of the time.</p>
<p>Fifteen students are currently en route to the Harvard Model United Nations Conference to be held this weekend, courtesy of Pomona. Two weeks ago Pomona sent a different group of students to compete in a MUN Conference in Canada.</p>