<p>Maybe he wanted a smaller LAC. Maybe he wanted to be closer to home. Maybe the costs of transportation from California to the East Coast were too much for him. Maybe he doesn’t like to fly. </p>
<p>Could be all sorts of things. It doesn’t have to make sense to you; it only needs to make sense to him. And Pomona will give him a great education. He didn’t choose “down.”</p>