<p>Maybe the difference in rigor comes from Swarthmore’s honor college, which I don’t think Pomona students are allowed to take. </p>
<p>But yeah, trust me, at Pomona, academics take up a lot of time. In my personal case the work-load never really stopped- I always had some reading, homework set, project, essay/etc. to do. Looking at previous CC threads I can sympathize with a lot of comments made for Swarthmore’s difficulty with Pomona’s, such as here: </p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/swarthmore/575010-difficulty-courses-swarthmore.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/swarthmore/575010-difficulty-courses-swarthmore.html</a></p>