NU vs Pomona

Colleges & Universities Northwestern University
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<p>Hahah from the date of the last posting it sounds like you’ve already made your choice but I’m currently stuck in the same situation as you!! Argh, I feel your pain :frowning: Well, for the sake of future victims…</p>

<p>Advantages of Pomona:
– weather at Pomona is better
– more research opportunities at Pomona, esp. for undergraduates which is -extremely- rare everywhere else… I guess this is more something for the science majors though
– Pomona spoils its students! Research things like Death by Chocolate the week before Finals, Ski-Beach day, the orientation activity overnight trips, and the amount of subsidized trips that Pomona funds, making the cost v. v. cheap for students!
– though it may not be well-known as of yet name-wise, esp. outside of California, it is still a great school, don’t worry!</p>

<p>Advantages of NU:
– Pomona is a really small, tight-knit community school and there is a possibility of not being able to just withdraw from the scene. NU would give that bigger university feeling
– closer to a bigger city… IMO Chicago is funner than LA
– easier to double major at NU because it’s on the quarter system so you can take more classes
– Will you be stifled at a small school by the time you turn 21? “You can always turn a big school small but you can’t turn a small school big.” Then again, Pomona also has the populations of the other 5Cs so it’s not terribly small I’ve been looking through the rest of College Confidential and another good point is <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/northwestern-university/493413-northwestern-v-small-schools.html?highlight=pomona[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/northwestern-university/493413-northwestern-v-small-schools.html?highlight=pomona&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>N/A:
– Class variety isn’t really an issue unless one is going into Journalism or something like that, but extracurricular variety is a problem…
– Transportation isn’t really an issue; though Chicago has better public trasnport, Pomona has a train station nearby and buses that run in the city (however the train station doesn’t open very late, but many students there have cars and there is a beautiful thing called ZipCar! The cars are hybrid too)</p>

<p>I guess I’m leaning towards Northwestern… Even though it is pretty much widely recognized that Pomona -is- a better (academically), more selective school (esp. in my prospective major, English)</p>