Physics Major at Pomona

PALMOM
Mon, 04 Apr 2011 14:41:12 +0000

My oldest son graduated 7 years ago from Mudd and was a physici major. My youngest will be starting Pomona this fall.
Mudd was extremely intense. Yes, he did do some humanities - and might have been able to do more but that was not his interest. He ended up with enough basic engineering to be employed as an engineer on graduation.
So,two questions for your son:
First what is his social “fit”- the students at the two colleges are very different
second - what does he want to do with the physics major- ? academics ? applied physics - with an engineering bent? some mixture of physics and humanities ?

Two good schools with very different students!