Pomona Vibe

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Tue, 03 Feb 2015 03:35:27 +0000

Everyone rides a long board. Literally everyone. You see the California style of clothes. There are a lot of surfer types. So like, lots of vans, flipflops, all that jazz. People tend to eat healthy and recycle. Students are really engaged in their class work. Most of them are very smart. People are very nice, nicer than any other college I’ve been to. There are definitely more specific stereotypes at the other claremont colleges. For instance, people seem to think that Claremont Mckenna has a very “Fratty” vibe. I just think all the glass buildings are really cool. The people there are nice as well, but they definitely have a work hard play hard mentality. And a lot of the guys are very big athletic types.
The one thing I notice about pomona is that it is not very diverse, and the people of color tend to stick together for support. It’s a friendly environment, it’s just there is such a big class gap at the school, and so that dominates some of the social aspects of the school. Most of the people of color are not from wealthy backgrounds. But. If you’re wealthy, or you grew up in a wealthy environment/ private school or something like that, you will do just fine with all types of people at the school.
If you don’t like"hipsters" don’t come though. It definitely has that vibe.