Pomona Vs. Scripps... Please Help!

CurseItToHades
Sun, 16 May 2010 13:34:48 +0000

I’m an incoming Pomona student, so I may not be as helpful as a current student, but here’s what I’ve got:


They are private schools, so I doubt it, but I don’t know the answer for sure.
Both are selective, but Pomona is far harder to get into. Pomona’s 2010 acceptance rate was about 14% and Scripps’ was around 35% (? Not sure there, multiple sources say different things) However, Scripps has a very selective half-price merit scholarship, the James E. Scripps scholarship, that is only awarded to about 10% of those who apply (for the scholarship), so look into that, as well.
I was sure for a while that I was going to go to Scripps, and had no problem with the all-girls environment when I spent the weekend. Boys are allowed to hang out all around campus and in the dorms, just not sleep there, and being all-girls allows the school to have a sort of quaint femininity it couldn’t have otherwise. However, when I visited at Pomona, I found that having boys in the same dorms was quite fun, as well.
Unless you want a big research facility (and yes, the Claremonts do have research, just not BIG research), you can find just about everything you need at the Claremonts. Each school has such a distinct personality and range of courses that you can meet just about every kind of person or take any class you could ever dream of. Also, the academic prestige of the schools combined with the lack of street prestige assures that the students are for the most part smart, but not superficial.