<p>I would turn down any UC, Georgetown, Amherst, Pitzer, Brandeis, Northwestern 
I want Pomona SOOO BADLY! omg. I will definitely cry tears of joy and scream at the top of my lungs if I am accepted next week (ED 1) 
Please, Pomona, PLEEEAAASSSEEE!</p>
<p>if i get in, i would turn down the rest of the claremonts (besides hmc didnāt apply) occidental, UC berkeley la sd r, cal poly pomona slo, sdsu, csu long beach, amherst, williams, wellesley, usc, redlands, and santa clara. (assuming i get in to all of those aha!)</p>
<p>Son is a freshman. He turned down Duke, UNC Chapel Hill, Univ of Tx Plan II, Boston University & Davidson for Pomona. No regrets.</p>
<p>lol, the only one I was allowed to turn down was Emory here in Atlanta.
I wasnāt accepted anywhere else. It matters not, for Pomona is amazing and I honestly canāt wait to attend.</p>
<p>FBaez413, Iām sure you would have had a lot of terrific offers through the RD round! Your Questbridge match just took you out of the running very early.</p>
<p>If admitted to Pomona, DS will withdraw apps to Brown, Yale, Stanford, Amherst, Swarthmore and Rice, among others. Pomona is far and away his first choice!</p>
<p>I turned down a lot of schools for Pomona. Stanford, Columbia, Amherst, Williams, Rice, University of Chicago, Northwestern, Bowdoin, and USC.</p>
<p>My D turned down Northwestern, Carleton and several other smaller LACās, a few of which provided more FA. She didnāt apply to big Ivyās etc. since she already knew she wanted a small LAC. Sheās really looking forward to attending Pomona.</p>
<p>i turned down upenn. it was a hard decision but no regrets.</p>
<p>I turned down Swarthmore (agonizing decision), Smith, Scripps, Mount Holyoke, Mills, Brandeis, Barnard, and Bryn Mawr (with quite significant merit scholarships at Smith, Mt. Holyoke, Mills, and Bryn Mawr.</p>
<p>I turned down a full ride to Johns Hopkins. I didnāt even realize how great of a school Pomona was until after I was acceptedā¦</p>
<p>My daughter turned down: MIT, Brown, Bryn Mawr, Wellesley, Vassar, Indiana University, Florida State, and Wash U. When we attended Admitted Students Day in April, we met students who had turned down all of the Ivies including Stanford, Yale and Harvard.</p>
<p>I turned down Amherst, Swarthmore, Yale, UPenn, Columbia, Dartmouth, and Wesleyan for Pomona. No regrets at all :)</p>
<p>I turned down Yale, Columbia, Stanford, Amherst, Williams, Swarthmore, Bowdoin, Dartmouth, Washington University at St. Louis, University of Southern California, and UT Austin Plan II Honors. </p>
<p>One question that I often pose to current students is what schools they were considering alongside Pomona, because it tells a lot about their personalities. You apply to schools for a reason, you know? Iāve heard almost every top school or top honor programs being turned down- Harvard, Princeton, Penn, Brown, Northwestern, Caltech, MIT, Cambridge, UNC Morehead Cain, Washington and Lee Johnson Scholarship, Emory Scholars, Jefferson Scholarsā¦ </p>
<p>Reflecting on the end of this semester, Iām beginning to realize how incredible Pomona is. There is literally nothing significant that I can complain about. The classes are intriguing, challenging, and fulfilling. Professors are so kind, brilliant, and accessible. The Claremont Consortium is so well-designed, and each of the schools has distinctive strengths. My class is diverse, well-rounded, extremely smart, and so friendly. The school is beautiful and safe, yet itās also in the heart of such an incredible location. Race and class issues that perpetuate superiority or hate crime rarely arise as an issue. The administration is a pleasure to work with, the facilities are magnificent, and Pomonaās resources never cease to amaze me. I think my only complaint is that diversity prevails over a tightly-knit community that would be expected of a liberal arts college, but ultimately Pomonaās balance is unparalleled. Iām a Questbridge Scholar and am acquainted with students from all 33 of its partner schools, and itās often difficult sympathizing with the problems they face at their respective colleges because Pomona really doesnāt have them.</p>
<p>To those who are fortunate enough to be accepted, give Pomona a serious consideration!</p>
<p>I was accepted early so technically didnāt turn down any other schools, but my other choices were Bates, Claremont McKenna, Colby, Middlebury, Skidmore, Vassar, Wesleyan and Whitman. So unlike many on here I wasnāt really interested in the Ivies and was pretty sold on the liberal arts education. I have no idea what I would have chosen had Pomona rejected me, so Iām pretty thrilled to be headed to the one school on my list that didnāt seem to have any major cons.</p>
<p>As an athlete, S had early offers from other schools that he declined in favor of Pomona, where he was accepted ED1, as well as an EA acceptance that arrived the same time as the Pomona acceptance. The schools he turned down in favor of Pomona are: Amherst, Bowdoin, Carnegie Mellon and Santa Clara. Plus he will be withdrawing his pending apps to USC, UCLA and UCSD. He knew he wanted to be on the C5 campus from the first time he set foot on the campus when he visited during junior year spring break, so is absolutely thrilled with his ED1 acceptance.</p>
<p>Class of 2017ā¦decisions are about complete, so what did you decide and what other schools were in your mix?</p>
<p>We listened to all the admissions horror stories on CC, so my D applied widely. Her final decision came down to Pomona vs Swarthmore, with Carleton and U Chicago also in the running into April. She was also accepted to Bowdoin, Haverford, Wesleyan, Colby, Oberlin, Northwestern, U Rochester. She is very happy with her choice and excited to start!</p>
<p>Congratulations to your daughter, mamabear! Sheās in for a wonderful four years!</p>
<p>Looking in the Facebook group, we have people turning down:</p>
<p>Northwestern, Cornell, UāChicago, University of Oxford, NYUAD, Brown, Vassar, WUSTL, CMC, lots of Swarthmore people, Williams, UāPenn, Amherst, Middlebury, and Stanford.</p>
<p>Add: Bowdoin and UCLA to the mix ;)</p>