<p>Plenty of students turn down Chicago/Brown for Pomona and Chicago/Pomona for Brown, so this isn’t an easy decision by any mean.</p>
<p>Brown and Chicago are renowned for being academically great research schools, but they are not liberal art colleges. There is a difference- Pomona’s community is more integrative in terms of administration, professors, and students. You are treated more like an individual at liberal art colleges like Pomona. Then you have the Claremont Consortium as a whole which makes it a bigger experience if you want it to be.</p>
<p>All three are great schools. It’s hard to say which one has better academics because the teachers in all three care for you and the class sizes in all tend to be the same (Pomona has less big classes than the others, but the others have slightly more small classes) Research, while it seems like it may be more available at research universities like Brown and Chicago, is a highlight of Pomona due to the large % majoring in a STEM field, the SoCal location, and Pomona’s endowment, so all three are most likely equal in this regard. </p>
<p>To the common person, Chicago and Brown are much more known than Pomona is, but in grad schools and by top employers all three are extremely renowned.</p>