Wellesley vs. Williams vs. Amherst

D.T
Sun, 24 Feb 2008 03:47:39 +0000

You know guys, I’m really curious about a few things.


It’s funny that when a certain lady on these boards chooses to defend her stance against football guy here on his (incredibly narrow minded) I might add view, guess who she chooses to use as the dart board?


Ans: Pomona!

Funny how she uses that name instead of the OTHER 3 NAMES THAT ARE ACTUALLY BEING DISCUSSED ON THE BOARD. We had nothing to do with this, someone praises Pomona’s academics (together with Carleton and Davidson), and what, something in you clicks, that latent sense of our inferiority to Amherst? To Williams? TO Wellesley? You know, Pomona isn’t ranked higher than Wellesly, but we’re no 7, and if you keep yoursef fairly informed, US News isn’t exactly the prime source to go for rankings of QUALITY of schools. Prestige? Yeah, we don’t match up. Academics? Students? We are pretty much on par.


Oh, and when people use SWAP as an acronym for top LACs, notwithstanding that it is used sometimes (not often), you automatically assume that it’s always from Pomona. Search this board - I’ve seen a fair number of posters who do use that acronym and they are not from Pomona.


In short, if you guys choose to look down on us, that’s cool. We don’t aspire to knock your gold-plated feet off your pretty ivy perch, we’re confident that we’re on of the very best colleges in the nation, and that’s enough for us. But the way you guys love to set us up CONVENIENTLY (OH WE’RE FROM THE WEST COAST OMGOMG) for your stupid fights and use us as a punching bag is downright shameful. Amherst, Williams, Swat and Wellesley are all one of the very best. So for goodness sake, behave like you are from there, and look into your own biases - do you think they are justified?