<p>Many of them do have these EC’s you speak of… in fact i distinctly recall a student on CC who got into stanford but not his first choice, pomona, last year. Of course it has more world class atheletes (who are probably not up to par academically), Pomona won’t accept a bonehead who can shoot a basketball or throw a football. Every student athlete at pomona chose pomona because of the academics, not because of the sports. Not to mention Pomona dominates its conference in many sports (even had a player go to the Boston Red Sox last year). Also the legacy card at pomona doesn’t have as much as a factor as it does at Stanford and the ivy league schools. In addition, Pomona is one of the most diverse liberal arts colleges, the last entering class had the second most number of african americans out of any liberal arts college.</p>