Pomona Student Body

lurkin_girl
Fri, 22 Apr 2005 14:07:34 +0000

Hey,
I applied to Pomona this year (rejected:( ), so let me clarify that first…

I finally got to visit Pomona for the first time the week before decisions came out. I was in love with the school on paper, and considered it one of my top choices, should I have been lucky enough to get admitted.

When I visited, I found the student body to be extremely “nice”. I mean, they went out of their way to help my family when we were looking around campus. We were all really impressed by the students.

However, I found Pomona to be really pretentious as a school. The facilities were great, don’t get me wrong, but there was this smug feeling like “aren’t we just so great” from the administration. The admissions office was awful. The admissions person gave this REALLY boring presentation, where he included a story about a friend of his when he a student at Pomona. His friend had started at Pomona in hopes of becoming a doctor someday. After his first few semesters, he was exposed to “mimes”, and decided when he graduated to go to France to become a mime instead of a doctor. He (the admissions guy) was laughing and saying this is what Pomona is all about…

I am sorry, but I cannot imagine any parent being too happy if they sent a child who wanted to become a doctor to Pomona, and 4 years later having a mime in the family What was this admissions guy thinking?!?

Literally half the people left this presentation before it was over. It was AWFUL!! If I had not taken the time to really see what the school was about, it would have totally turned me off Pomona altogether.

If I had gotten in to Pomona, I might very well have ended up there, because I liked the facilities, and the students that I met…but the administration is another story…