Stanford and Pomona

onlyonequestion
Thu, 09 Apr 2015 22:22:12 +0000

Hey! I just have a couple of questions about the two schools (as I have been recently offered a spot at both) and hope I can find varying perspectives.

1. I am currently interested in majoring in economics and/or computer science. I was wondering whether Stanford’s location (near Silicon Valley)/name recognition would really be that much more advantageous to me than what Pomona can offer. http://www.pomona.edu/administration/career-development/files/where-grads-go-2013.pdf has some info about where Pomona grads go. And this for where Stanford grads go: https://studentaffairs.stanford.edu/cdc/identify/alumni-where-grads-work . Do you think the differences are major?

2. While I’m looking for a challenging environment, I am not looking for a stressful environment and one that will overload me with school work. I think that the semester system at Pomona will live up this expectation more than Stanford’s quarter system, but if you believe that I may be wrong about that let me know! I am very serious about leaving time for out-of-school activities/learning.

3. Going along with the second question, I am not a good fit for a college that fosters nasty competition between students. From what I have heard I don’t believe that either college has this, but let me know if this isn’t true.

I would also like to mention that I am going to both schools’ admitted students weekends, so if you have any recommendations about how I should to approach them I’m all ears.

I’d also love to hear about people’s personal experience (or if you have links to articles/blogs about this please share them with me).

I’ll be adding more questions as they come up!