Why is Pomona College so highly rated??

aleph4
Mon, 05 Jun 2006 03:20:58 +0000

Allright, guys. If this won’t convince you, I don’t know what will.

So I’m working this summer with a Psychology Professor at UC Berkeley (I live in the Bay Area) in an internship (that my Pomona professor actually helped me get) and we were talking about why I choose Pomona. I told him i had decided between UCLA and Berkeley but turned them down because I wanted the individual attention. And he was like, “that was totally the right decision.”
This Berkeley professor straight up told me “Pomona is 10 times better for undergraduate education that any of the UCs”. He said it’s because only about 5 percent of Berkeley Psych students do undergraduate research while at Pomona you can’t escape it. Also, he said the intro to psych class was over 500 people at Berkeley. At Pomona it was 30, and that’s a big class.

Anyways, I was just shocked to hear this from him but at the same time I thinking “YESSSS”. Any doubts that I ever had about turning down Berkeley or UCLA were completely erased.